Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

It was on a few other channels on cable. CSPAN and several of the "news" things pretty much had it. I must admit though, even as "important" as this is I didnt watch it much. I mean I know the positions of the presidential candidates and pretty much the parties, this is just a big cheerleading formality.

But I would second the appreciation for PBS. IMHO I am actually getting objective and truthful journalism from PBS (and NPR). They DO portray both sides of many issues, they research things before they report them, they have information and access that is complete and often unmatched by any other major networks, and they dont have some silly ass song and huge specially made graphic blasted all over 40% of the screen.

The quality of information coming from PBS and NPR is excellent and as far as I have found it is very much accurate and factual and not slanted (and yes I am aware its called slanted all the time by the right, many people that apparently never watch or listen to PBS/NPR call it liberal and so on, thats just not so, they do have a liberals on, but they almost always also have a conservative on the same story, if you take just one of those soundbytes you can surely "lean" it either way, and I would like to point out that lately NPR has had *many* POSITIVE war in Iraq and good things soldiers are doing stories, despite the noise from many people that the "media" is just painting the war as bad (and lets not get started on that asinine statement as it pertains to any media outlet, its a WAR)). To PBS, at least to me it seems, its still about news and not about all the hype (and corporate must get ratings must have sponsors and such focus).

Ok, this made me involuntarily spit coke on my monitor as an uncontrollable laugh caught me off guard, dammit.

"All media is liberal, hell I think Fox News is just barely left of center"

I was *just* down in the "NOC" here where I work, big production server problems, lots of tension and all that, in the NOC to get someones attention. Anyway, the NOC is pretty damn impressive, huge room, very quiet, lots of big screens, all sorts of maps/geography and alerts and red and green and shit on the screens, you know, NOC like. I noticed that the TV in the top corner though was tuned to Fox News. One of my colleagues (actually my boss) noted under his breath that although we had all this shit the customers were still the ones that told us when stuff was down. I said no wonder they dont know whats going on, they have Fox news on over there, several folks lost it. (But I must admit, not nearly as funny as the barely left of center remark ;)).