by Jim Ball | Nov 12, 2020 | Blog, Media, Media Bias, Random Notes
It’s very easy to blame the media for their bias and misinformation and it really does exist but I think we need to assume that that is already baked into our assumptions and drives our skepticism and that it’s up to each person to ferret around and find out what’s... 
by Jim Ball | Nov 8, 2020 | American Election, American Politics, Blog, Media, Random Notes, Trump |
Given the revelations in Peter Schweizer’s book Secret Empires and those of recent weeks on the laptop from hell combined with the separate Tony Bobulinski trove of texts, emails, audio files and the breadcrumb trail of evidence of times, dates, people and places, it... by Jim Ball | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Drive by Media, Media, Media Bias, Random Notes
Back in 2004, American talk radio host Rush Limbaugh coined the phrase “the drive by media” to describe and compare some elements of the mainstream media, with that of a casual, “drive by“ gang that fires random gun shots at no specific target in no specific... by Jim Ball | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus, Media, Media Bias, Random Notes |
There has always been different takes on the news of the day and something I’ve never forgotten was the observation by a guest speaker in the 1980’s at a marketing seminar, a variation of a CS Lewis quote: ‘What you see depends on where you stand’ Take... by Jim Ball | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog, Media, Media Bias
An illuminating read and a case study of selective bias that works on the principle that although all the facts are presented, they are not presented together in an “on the one hand but on the other hand” fair and balancedkind of way. Crucial facts that... by Jim Ball | Mar 31, 2018 | Blog, Crickert ball tampering, Media, Random Notes |
It’s funny how quickly we forget. It was only five weeks ago that Barnaby Joyce resigned after being brought down in another hysterical, media pile on and another round of totally out of proportion, confected outrage and a beat up not dissimilar to that that we’ve...