As anyone following health reform knows, centrism is a political position too. And you see moderate bias — i.e., a preference for centrism — whenever a news outlet assumes that the truth must be “somewhere in the middle.” You see it whenever an organization decides that “balance” requires equal weight for an opposing position, however specious: “Some, however, believe global warming is a myth.” (Moderate bias would also require me to find a countervailing liberal position and pretend that it is equivalent to global-warming denial. Sorry.)
Often, moderate bias is just the result of caution, but the effect is to bolster centrist political positions — not least by implying that they are not political positions at all but occupy a happy medium between the nutjobs. Meanwhile, conservatives see moderate bias as liberal, and liberals see it as conservative — letting journalists conclude that it’s not bias at all.
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Will someone please stop buy this POS magazine.
Anything political coming out of them is like me asking a pig for advice on cleaning.
upinak on November 6, 2009 at 7:43 PM
when did we start playing a national game of bullshit? I’m calling it.
theguardianii on November 6, 2009 at 7:43 PM
You ignorant swine. Pigs are cleanly animals.
“Pigs are very clean animals. In fact, pigs are some of the cleanest animals around. They like to maintain separate eating sleeping and defecation areas. When given the room and freedom to decide, pigs choose to be clean and tidy.”
GW_SS-Delta on November 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM
… whenever a news outlet assumes that the truth must be “somewhere in the middle.”
No, by that they mean ’somewhere in the middle of the left hand side of the scale’.
L __________ 0 __________ R
………. ^ about here
Tony737 on November 6, 2009 at 7:47 PM
You obviously have never raised them.. or hogs. Thanks for playing.
upinak on November 6, 2009 at 7:48 PM
ROTFL.
Next up, Time’s defense of Obama’s dithering on Afghanistan:
Not to decide, is to decide.
Dusty on November 6, 2009 at 7:48 PM
How about Time Magazine dated June 24th, 1974?
Tee up another one.
Beagle on November 6, 2009 at 7:50 PM
[Tony737 on November 6, 2009 at 7:47 PM]
LOL. Nice graphic.
Dusty on November 6, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Well, turns out they may have been correct… just early…
Romeo13 on November 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Sorry, forgot the link.
Science: Another Ice Age?
And, of course, that too was probably our fault.
Beagle on November 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM
TIME spelled backwards is EMIT.
And what they spew rhymes with IT.
profitsbeard on November 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Hey, if you decide not to decide you still have made a choice. I think Socrates said that.
Beagle on November 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM
C_______S_______L_______0_______R
—-^
LibTired on November 6, 2009 at 7:58 PM
AHAHAAHAHFGHJHSH
AAAAHAHAHA
YES!
AHAAHAHA
I LOVE IT
MHM
YEP
CENTRIST
ABHARBHB BAWHA WBARF
BARUFH
Phew.
blatantblue on November 6, 2009 at 7:58 PM
It’s a typo.
Time meant to say the media is biased towards the Central Committee.
viking01 on November 6, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Nice FIFY.
I would only add an M for Maoist to the left of your C, and slide the pointer between the two.
profitsbeard on November 6, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Yes, getting to a socialist state more slowly than the editors of TIME would like = “centrism.”
As if they could name one time when the “centrist” answer was not bigger government.
Karl on November 6, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Don’t p!$$ down my back and tell me it’s rainin’.
thomasaur on November 6, 2009 at 8:14 PM
NO. BUT MY UNCLE DID. AND SURE THE PIGS WERE CARNIVORES AND WOULD SOMETIMES KILL EACHOTHER AND THEN EAT EACHOTHER. OH GAWD. AND THEY WOULD WALLOW IN THEIR OWN FILTH. DISGUSTING CREATURES. BAWL BAWL BAWL. OH GOD. They are not redeeming creatures. No wonder the Muslims kill them. Bacon? Oh God. Bacon, why have you done this to me?
GW_SS-Delta on November 6, 2009 at 8:34 PM
The poor little angels are sooooo misunderstood.
John the Libertarian on November 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
A-
Horatius on November 6, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I don’t think they realize that they are not the ones who get to decide if they’re biased.
Dark Eden on November 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Their “center” is my left field foul line.
Dave R. on November 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM
And brown sugar makes a great toothpaste.
fogw on November 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM
God, they love the center. “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?”
Answer….2. Kill the Center.
Coronagold on November 6, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Time magazine has been so far left for years that Democrats look “centrist” instead of leftist (like they are).
Add to that the common leftist characteristic of COMPLETE lack of perspective, and there you are.
Oh, and they’re also lying scum, because they’re journalists. That doesn’t help.
Merovign on November 6, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Look at it this way, guys.
At least they are not Newsweak.
Bless their hearts.
victor82 on November 6, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Oh, I forgot. They still pay money to Joe Klein.
So I take part of what I wrote back.
Time sucks.
victor82 on November 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Wow, and they wrote that with a straight face.
AZfederalist on November 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Beyond parody
Splunge on November 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Ultraliberals always call themselves moderate.
And by the way, “Some claim, contrary to all the evidence, that Obama is not the messiah” is not a happy medium between Obama worship (i.e. mainstream media) and criticism.
OneGyT on November 6, 2009 at 10:58 PM
It’s your own grave you are digging Time.
Here’s a bigger shovel.
Machiavelli Hobbes on November 6, 2009 at 11:29 PM
The phrase that comes to mind starts with “Unbelievable bulls” and rhymes with “hit”.
steveegg on November 6, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Neil Peart penned this contemporary line.
“You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose freewill”
Freewill, 1980
rukiddingme on November 7, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Only leftists believe liberalism is centrists.
wildcat84 on November 7, 2009 at 1:13 AM
Of course they aim for the center…of Asia, somewhere along the border between Russia and China.
Cylor on November 7, 2009 at 5:30 AM
Why is my Toilet Paper talking?
nyx on November 7, 2009 at 5:42 AM
Neil Peart penned this contemporary line.
“You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose freewill”
Freewill, 1980
rukiddingme on November 7, 2009 at 12:12 AM
RUSH ROCKS !
(The band and Mr. Limbaugh !)
cableguy615 on November 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM