Orson Scott Card Makes a Good Point

[t1tdave]

I am a little late in finding it, but thanks to Snopes, I have. And I think everybody should read it; not because I think it should necessarily change your vote (it isn't changing mine; I knew much of this and decided Obama was the lesser of two evils anyway), but because you should be aware that many of us live in a bubble, created by voices that

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[t1tdave]

I totally understand; I do not like his political positions, either. And if I wasn't already aware of most of the points he makes from other sources, I would not have assumed his article contained facts. But even if his motives are questionable, he does have a point in my opinion: the world view we get is filtered heavily by those who provide us with it, and we tend to forgive and hold blameless the leaders we like/elect and accuse and assume guilty those we don't.

[ammitnox]

If he said that the sky was blue, I would wonder what his angle was.

[t1tdave]

Wow... I didn't realize the anti-OSC vitriol was this strong, or I would have dug deeper for a different commentator.

[cheetahmaster]

There's other commentary discussing media bias out there; Howard Kurtz discusses the topic pretty regularly. But again, it's a touchy one, because the complainers are typically complaining about whichever side is the one that opposes their typical viewpoint.

[syntart]

He's amazingly right-winged, and when you have an amazingly right-winged (and vocally so) saying "it's not fair to just attack the right," you have to wonder what his angle is. A different commentator -- perhaps one more centrist or at unbiased (ha!) or at the very least more academic -- would have gotten your point across much clearer.