Comments on Anne is a Man! - Podcast Reviews: We want Obama - Open Source and Economist

You seem not to like this kind of hype. In the mea...

2008-07-31T09:43:00.000+03:00

You seem not to like this kind of hype. In the mean time, I have not found a less biased or a McCain favoring podcast. On the contrary, on UChannel, Tom Barnett lectures about geopolitics (the pentagon's new map) and during the Q&A he has a real jibe for McCain, whom he regards as outdated and unable to adapt to the new geopolitics. Obama on the other hand.... I think you get the picture.
Would you have a listening tip for me?

I don't know if it is recognized by the media them...

2008-07-29T17:06:00.000+03:00

I don't know if it is recognized by the media themselves as bias but for those of us here, it is recognized that the media tends to fawn on whatever Obama does and says and virtually ignore all others. This is probably best acknowledged by the fact that it is a source of "everybody knows it" humor on such shows as Saturday Night Live which had skits over several episodes pointing that out about Hilary versus Obama. Lately, one can see these sorts of articles also in The Onion. Such as this iece. I'm just sayin' ... :-)

I am sure there are pro-McCain and maybe even trul...

2008-07-26T08:15:00.000+03:00

I am sure there are pro-McCain and maybe even truly impartial podcasts, but I do not know them. I had been following both the Economist and Open Source for quite some time and never really paid attention to any bias.
Besides, being a total outsider makes me somewhat indifferent to the bias, and if I could have detected earlier, I simply didn't because it is not that important.
With Dutch or Israeli podcasts, I'd notice it immediately. Or even know in advance.

One must also recognize that it depends on which p...

2008-07-25T18:05:00.000+03:00

One must also recognize that it depends on which podcasts you are listening to. In any presidential contest there are two sides (sometimes more!) and not everyone agrees that "Obama is the way." :-)