Friends, remember that we all have a worldview. Your worldview might not have a label yet, but you have one whether you like it or not.
Al Mohler:
Here is a clue - whenever anyone... claims a policy reversal means a break from someone else's "ideologically driven policies," it simply means 1 ideology is replacing or modifying another. The NYT is the central media organ of the secular left. It is as ideologically driven as any other sector of this society.... [T]he idea that any serious policy discussion can be free from ideology is a farce. The editors... merely prefer their own ideology to that of the Bush administration, yet they write this editorial as if they have come from their own private planet of ideological purity....
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Thanks as always, Zach; and happy birthday!
No small part of my MA degree coursework was in media literacy. I had the privilege of studying the subject under Dr. David M. Considine at Appalachian State. He's no conservative...but he is very knowledgeable and a great teacher.
One his Web site, there is a page listing some of the principles of media literacy. Among them are: All media are constructions. Media construct reality. Media messages contain values and ideologies. Media messages have social and political consequences.
Part of media literacy is to deconstruct and to understand what is being told (and sold) to us, whether in sitcoms, or the "news," or whatever other source. It's kind of taking a Berean approach to all messages -- checking them out, seeing if they have merit and match up with the Truth.
Too often media organizations, like the NY Times, try to achieve "balance" by giving equal weight to opposing points of view regardless of the matter in question. But this is often unreasonable. These days the conservatives are all too often intellectually bankrupt. In selecting points of views to consider, the media needs some discernment regarding which are worthy of consideration. They do disservice in thinking that they must present the views of the Flat Earth Society, the Young Earth Creationists, Glenn Beck, etc.
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