...and always assume your assumptions carry a Freshness Date, which means they are mostly pure shit after a while.
If there's really a Liberal Bias in the news media; a bias that's anywhere near as prominent as "conservatives" are so desperate to make us believe, then it seems to me we'd be able to see it a lot better.
Here's the thing: It's not "Gay Rights", as if those rights exist outside the realm of everybody else's rights. It's not "Gay Rights" now any more than it was "Black Rights" back in the 50s and 60s.
In god's USAmerica Inc, we're supposed to be talking about everybody's rights being the same; everybody having the same right to be treated as equals before the law. Equal Rights.
So I go to the Google Machinery, and I type in something like "gay rights" and I get one number, and then I type in "equal rights", and I get another number.
(CAVEAT: I'm no scholar. I'm not schooled in statistics or sampling or much of anything else outside of what I can observe and figure out on my own)
gay marriage = 76,100 hits
same sex marriage = 44,600 hits
marriage equality = 10,400 hits
gay rights = 21,500 hits
equal rights = 6,240 hits
I went to some of the bigtime bastions of bias - NYTimes, LATimes, San Francisco Chronicle - and I picked a few articles at random, and I counted the number of times the phrase "gay marriage" appeared vs the number of times "marriage equality" appeared. Gay Marriage wins by margins as high as 10-to-1. As often as not, "marriage equality" never popped up at all.
Language matters. Words have meaning. When we say a certain thing in a certain way and over a certain period of time, it sticks.
So if "The Media" carries such a strong left-leaning bias, why is the use of "conservative phrasing" so dominant?
If there's really a Liberal Bias in the news media; a bias that's anywhere near as prominent as "conservatives" are so desperate to make us believe, then it seems to me we'd be able to see it a lot better.
Here's the thing: It's not "Gay Rights", as if those rights exist outside the realm of everybody else's rights. It's not "Gay Rights" now any more than it was "Black Rights" back in the 50s and 60s.
In god's USAmerica Inc, we're supposed to be talking about everybody's rights being the same; everybody having the same right to be treated as equals before the law. Equal Rights.
So I go to the Google Machinery, and I type in something like "gay rights" and I get one number, and then I type in "equal rights", and I get another number.
(CAVEAT: I'm no scholar. I'm not schooled in statistics or sampling or much of anything else outside of what I can observe and figure out on my own)
gay marriage = 76,100 hits
same sex marriage = 44,600 hits
marriage equality = 10,400 hits
gay rights = 21,500 hits
equal rights = 6,240 hits
I went to some of the bigtime bastions of bias - NYTimes, LATimes, San Francisco Chronicle - and I picked a few articles at random, and I counted the number of times the phrase "gay marriage" appeared vs the number of times "marriage equality" appeared. Gay Marriage wins by margins as high as 10-to-1. As often as not, "marriage equality" never popped up at all.
Language matters. Words have meaning. When we say a certain thing in a certain way and over a certain period of time, it sticks.
So if "The Media" carries such a strong left-leaning bias, why is the use of "conservative phrasing" so dominant?
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