1.30.12 DETECTING BIAS
Read some of the the entries in this blog. Since it is anonymous you are unable to verify his information. Based on the author's posts what can you assume about his values, beliefs and biases? http://shroudedindoubt.typepad.com/
Post one comment and support your observations through quoting a telling statement you found in the blog entries.
This author doesn't agree with violence. "aimless violence, we are reminded of protests, urban riots, and the self-inflicted incineration of black neighborhoods in the 1960s"
ReplyDeleteHe believes that the United States legal system needs to be dealing with greater things than Lindsey Lohan. "Lindsay Lohan's minor troubles are a waste of legal time"
He probably doesn't like Obama. "a president who refuses to enforce the nation's laws over immigration"
The author believes that the Wall Street protests are purposely timed so Obama can prove his point "Obama needs some public demonstration of support of this theme, lest it appear only as more of his usual leftist hectoring. So, on cue, we have the protestors"
My internet is extremely stupid, and I don't have a "leave a comment" button, so I'm just going to reply on Hannah's Okay, this guy seems to be a Republican, because he talks about the "socialism in his OSW campaign", and says it will help the Republican party. He also seems to disagree with most of our legal system, because he thinks we should just "leave Lindsey Lohan alone". even though she is still breaking the law. He's very opinionated.
DeleteThis guy is definitley against violence. In the very first entry he says "aimless violence...Opposition to traditional values tumbled from the heights of orderly civil rights marchs to the depths of aimless radical anarchism" Lorraine Luna, 8th hour
ReplyDeleteThe author is not okay with the violence: "Opposition to traditional values tumbled from the heights of orderly civil rights marchs to the depths of aimless radical anarchism.
ReplyDeleteThe author mentions in this article of other things the legal system could be doing like "I suggest we declare the war against Lindsey Lohan is won, withdraw our troops and leave her alone." "...A president who refuses to enforce the nation's laws over immigration"
In this paragraph, the author distinctfully lets the reader know he is impressed with the movie, "Drive." "I thought Gosling's acting was excellent and contributed enormously to the suspense that builds through the movie."
It is clean in "Obama Wags His Dog" that the author is strictly against Obama and targeting him as a bad leader. The author writes,"Obama is left with egg on his face, revealed as generally ineffectual and foolish in foreign policy and international security."
The author does not like how the poor are not striving to improve their lifestyle or themselves. "They don't try to improve their lives by personal striving, they look for improvements by asking for more handouts."
ReplyDeleteHe believes that the public reached out to elect a conservative President because of the radical violence.
"And the political end-result: the American public in general reacted out of their conservatism, finally electing Ronald Reagan in 1980."
He believes that the justice system should be spending the tax payers money putting actual criminals behind bars instead of wasting their time with celebrity and white collar crimes. "federal judges ruling that prisons aren't sufficiently comfortable for hardcore violent criminals, federal prosecutors working overtime to convict white collar criminals who have swindled or illegally obtained millions and millions of investor money."
"I see many older cars on the road, with many of those cars showing wear and tear, paint worn off, unrepaired minor collision damage, damaged windows, that sort of thing. These older cars are symptomatic of depressed working class, youthful owners, black and Latino owners, and a strained middle class." This is a reality check, that though the automakers are in the black after their bailout the Americna public is still driving cars that are over ten yeras old to refrain from taking on the burden of years of car payments. The recession at this point has not really shown signs of easing for the middle and lower classes.
The author refers to Obama as a socialist and calls the aimless violence of the OWS movement a demonstration to prove his support for the middle class.
ReplyDeleteHe is most likely a conservative because he criticizes Obama and his policy on Immigration and his handling of OWS.
He thinks media shouln't view Lindsey Lohan as a threat to society while bad people do bad things and jails are being made more comfortable are flying under the radar.
He thinks that buying cars is not part of an american budget and we should see the sign that the economy is still bad because of the age of cars on the road.
He feels that government creates poverty by giving subsides to poor. He feels that by ruining the poor's motivation it prevents them from working hard and reducing nations classes income gap.
The author is most definitely against violence. "...aimless violence..."
ReplyDeleteHe believes that Lindsay Lohan should be left alone because she is not harming society. And that we should stop being involved with her, and start being involved with important issues. "I suggest we declare the war against Lindsay Lohan is won, withdraw our troops, and leave her alone."
I think he is a republican (conservative) because he is judging Obama negatively on his immigration policy and other things.
This author displays anti-violence with many sentences questioning someone or something using compliments. “Really, is there any social necessity for the prosecution of this young and beautiful actress?” He simply states a question with an opinion. “How does she compare to the real business and the hugely funded false business of the legal system?” This man shows he doesn’t understand why people bring up unnecessary topics. “So it should be a straight forward matter, when evaluating a social phenomenon like poverty that is intertwined with policy, to ask, at the outset, how has government contributed to the problem.” He is against violence, yet stating his opinion on a fact-to –fact basis.
ReplyDeleteWhen does prosecution turn into persecution?
ReplyDeleteThis quote clearly displays a distaste for violence and persecution. He appears to want, and expect, a fair and just society. In addition, he finds that, in the case of Lindsay Lohan, she is not hurting society, so society should not hurt her. Unfortunately, I have to disagree. I am of the opinion, that, while being against persecution is a good cause, there needs to be a line. If Lindsay Lohan has broken the law, then by all means, she should be punished as the law states. I can't agree that she isn't harming society, because she is a celbrity, constantly in the spotlight. While the author has some interesting takes and some strong opinions, it would be wise to also look at other sources for information.
Once again, Morgan Johnson, 8th hour.
DeleteThe man who wrote these stories has a very down to earth, but narrow mindset. He sees the world and all it's problems and thinks he has the solution to every one. When chances are he is missing some key information that actually makes it a hard decision. Like in his story about Lyndsey Lohan he says,"we should leave her alone," and," pull our troops out of the battle." But he forgets that while our legal system is flawed in many ways, it doesn't let people off the hook who have made public attacks on the law. Becuase her life is so public the law has to pursue her to show force, and that the law won't stand for such behavior.
ReplyDeleteThe author is agianst violence in many ways. He feels that the "aimless violence" is many cases only hurts. The author believes that the United States law enforcement is spendig too much energy and resources worrying about unimportant events such as Lindsey Lohan. The author also seems to have an answer to all the issues believes he is right.
ReplyDeleteThe author is likely not in favour of violence. The author also is most likely not the biggest fan of Obama. He is probably not an illegal immigrant, since he supposedly wants Obama to enforce immigration laws. Then again, someone who already illegally immigrated might not care if he enforces immigration laws if he's already over here. So I guess don't rule out that he is an Illegal immigrant. We are led to believe that he claims Obama (or one of his supporters) started the recent demonstrations so that Obama appears to have support on one issue.
ReplyDeleteBased on a few of these articles it is safe to say that the author is against violence. He says, "as occupy wall street turns from incoherence to aimless violence..." he thinks that violence is pointless. In addition, he believes our legal system should focus on more important things than, "Lindsey Lohan's minor troubles." Lastly, the author appears to be bias towards Barack Obama. He says, "a president who refuses to enforce the nation's laws over immigration.." Abby Straight 6th hour :)
ReplyDeleteThe author seems bias towards Barack Obama, is against violence, and believes the government is not working in the right direction towards solving issues involving violence. Also that the government is spending time on useless problems such as Lindsey Lohan. For example, he says, “As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence”, and “How does she compare to the real business and the hugely funded false business of the legal system?”
ReplyDeleteIn the Lindsey Lohan blog, the author does not understand why the people "cannot leave her alone". The author thinks it's completely ridiculous that the legal system cares so much about these dumb cases, when they have murderers to sentence. "How does she compare to the real business and the hugely funded false business of the legal system?"
ReplyDeleteIn the blog, the author can not understand why Americans enjoy preoccupying themselves in simple matters such as Lindsey Lohan's jailing. Quite a few times he mentions the Democratic party and how the goverment is being run. The author commented on how some believe that the Recession is coming to a close but how those numbers don't account for all the adults with part-time jobs,can't move up in the work place, adults who have entirely left the job industry and new adults ready to attack the workforce.
ReplyDeleteThe Author clearly has a strong opinion on many issues such as violence and government. Some major biases I saw in his blog would be when he compared prisoners to losers and druggies, violence thathe stated aimless, and saying how Obama should work more on preventing immigrants from coming into America. He also seems to like Lindsey Lohan " beuatiful actress" and even believes that Obama began the recent demonstrations which suggests he has a few problems with President Obama.
ReplyDeleteBased on the author's posts, you can assume that the author does not have Democratic views,proven when he says, "The Democratic party insists that it is the only political party...They hope it'll work against Cain". Also, his main concerns aren't over small issues, but over the bigger picture, as demonstrated when he says, "Lindsay Lohan's minor troubles are a waste of time". Lastly, the author doesn't like violence. He proves this when he refers to the act as "...aimless violence..."
ReplyDeleteThe author seems bias through selection and omission in the Lindsay Lohan article. It seems the focus of the article isn't Lindsay, but the problems with the legal system involved with more serious criminals. In the beginning the author asks, "Is she a danger to society?" Yet, the author fails to mention what her problems are, therefore selecting the information that goes into the article. Just because she is famous, doesn't mean she deserves special treatment compared to average people with the same offenses.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading these articles one can assume that this author is against violence. For example he says, " As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence..." Also the author thinks it's ridiculous with how the government spends so much time on,"Lindsey Lohan's minor troubles..." and not on other important crimes.
ReplyDeleteThe author certainly is biased. He does not give any facts on the riots, but instead says it is "aimless violence" and immediately compares it to riots in the 1960's without ever giving a reason why. In fact most of the entry was history of an old riot, which is unnecessary since he has not given a reason to how the relate in the first place. He says: "As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence, we are reminded of protests, urban riots, and the self-inflicted incineration of black neighborhoods in the 1960s." To make his argument a little more persuasive he should at least give us prove that the occupy wall street movement has become violent. It is very biased and very poorly developed.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, this author is very biased, but doesn't bring forth enough facts to support his opinion. His sources are rarely sited, and he provides very little examples to support his claims. For example, "As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence, we are reminded of protests, urban riots, and the self-inflicted incineration of black neighborhoods in the 1960s." The issues of racial discrimination, and Occupy Wall Street are completely unrelated, and his attempts of making a connection between the two are weak as he only provides one example.
ReplyDeleteThe auther begins with the fact that he is totally against violence stating, "As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence, we are reminded of protests, urban riots, and the self-inflicted incineration of black neighborhoods in the 1960s". And stated in his review of the movie Drive he said he "enjoyed seeing really bad people meet their deserved deaths". I can also tell he doesn't like the fact that our society today focuses on the less imprortant things asking, "is there any social necessity for the prosecution of this young and beautiful actress?" on the topic of the Lindsay Lohan drama.
ReplyDeleteThe author seems to be very bias throughout the entire blog. A statement to prove that would be in the entry about Cain, "The Democratic Party insists that it is the only political party that legitimately represents black Americans (and women and other approved minorities) and that its opponents are racists." The entry then goes on to talk about Cain's candacy must be crushed. Both arguments are very one sided and you can very easily tell where the author stands.
ReplyDeleteThe author really seems to hate our governmental system along with our press. He wants the press to leave Lindsay lohan alone, and spend time reporting the more inportant issues, such as fixing our justice system. He is very biased and takes up arms against anything he disagrees with. negative comments towards Obama are also present,"a president who refuses to enforce the nation's laws over immigration". This might be a stretch, but when he says,". I suggest we declare the war against Lindsay Lohan is won, withdraw our troops, and leave her alone." i think he is trying to make a connection to our troops overseas. these are reasons why he is very biased against our government and news stations.
ReplyDeleteA peaceful society and no violence is not easy to come by in our flawed legal system. In some cases, violence may be necessary. The author acts as if violence in most occasions is pointless. "As occupy wall street turns from incoherence to aimless violence," is a quote that resembles how he believe violence was taken for no reason. He also states that we should leave Lindsey Lohan alone when she is braking the law. "Is Lindsay some kind of a bad person? Is she a danger to society?" Well yes, she is! Obviously he's very opinionated.
ReplyDeleteObviously he is bias against violence because of the "aimless violence" comment that many other students have already mentioned. He also sways towards the republican side because he is blaming the effects of wall street on the current liberal party which is democratic. He is also saying that anything negative that happens during the current presidency will give the opposite party a boost during the next reelection.
ReplyDeleteHowever i don't think that Lindsey should be left alone because yeah she did do illegal stuff but shes not really dangerous to society. He is saying that its ridiculous how much attention they are giving to her minor offenses and disregarding more important matters such as "hugely funded false business of the legal system". It is also a waste of peoples time and tax dollars to fund her courts when worse offenses should be of greater importance in the courts. Lindsey is not the only one either most celebrity legal cases get more attention than just some random person even though he committed a major offense.
Personally, I quite enjoyed reading this author's entries. You can tell he is very opinionated to start off with. He's not going "well, I GUESS they have a point too...". No. He's straight to the problem, and clearly states what he thinks of it. The Lindsay Lohan entry was the most interesting out of the entries for me, because I thought that he said he was writing about Lohan, but it seems quite obvious that he's making a jab at the U.S. legal system's problems overall, and just sprinkling Lohan's problems on top for more pizazz. His point about "when does prosecution turn into persecution?" was amazing, and sent my mind onto a tangent about why and when society crosses the line about what's right, and what's good media. It's also quite apparent throught the multiple entries, that this author doesn't seem to support Obama...whatsoever. He's refered to as "a president who refuses to support the nation's laws over immigration" and has been accused of making "a political mistake that will redound to the benefit of the Republicans".
ReplyDeleteHe is obviously against OWS and Obama's way of running things, "a political mistake that will redound to the benefit of Republicans." He also is seemingly a republican, who bashes Obama and his ideas a bit. He also isn't in favor of giving people such as Lohan the publicity that they desire by breaking rules and being put in jail frequently "Maybe it's just because a largely white legal system wishes to meet this famous beauty." The author of these stories states his opinion in both blog without fear.
ReplyDeleteThe bias is obvious with this one, he speaks so blatantly and forward on most of these "issues". From his post I assume he is a non-democrat, as he mentions that the democrats think their the only party and that he is against Obama's leadership. He even brings Lohan into his political arguments. He goes as far as to say that they pick her out on purpose.
ReplyDeleteThe author is defiantly against violence with the statement,"As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence..." He believes the government spends too much time worrying about silly things like Lindsey Lohan.It's also safe to say he's against President Obama, believing he should try harder to keep immigrants out of the U.S. These articles show how opinionated the author is.
ReplyDeleteThe author made it clear that he was against violence with his statement, "As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence, we are reminded of protests, urban riots, and the self-inflicted incineration of black neighborhoods in the 1960s," right in the beginning. He is very opinionated and speaks his mind without questioning the other side's opinions and views. The author is very blunt and I would guess that he is a republican by his remarks stating that the democratic party thinks that they are the only party. He also bashed Obama and his beliefs at times and brought Lindsey Lohan into the arguments to prove how corrupt our nation is.
ReplyDeleteThe author doesn't believe in violence because he says "aimless violence". He leans more towards the republican party because he blames the liberal party for the effects of the wall street. The liberal party is democrat right now so he is obviously more republican.
ReplyDeleteHe clearly leans on the side of republicans and can be seen in his occupy Wall St. post "a political mistake that will redound to the benefit of Republicans."
ReplyDeleteThe author seems to be more on the side of the republicans as shown in the quote, "a political mistake that will rebound to the benefit of the Republicans". Which he made while talking about a mistake Obama made with his OWS slogans.
ReplyDeleteThe author also seems to be against violence when he started off the post by saying "As Occupy Wall Street turns from incoherence to aimless violence...." This showing how he believes that the violence occurring because of Occupy Wall Street has no meaning and therefore shouldn't be occurring.
Delete-Monique Wagner, 6th hour.
The author of these stories is almost certainly a republican, with his obvious bashing of Obama when he stated, " Obama, see faint echoes of his socialism in OWS slogans, has sided with the protestors' encampments, a political mistake that will redound to the benefit of Republicans". I also think that the author has a crush on Lindsay Lohan, stating, "Really, is there any social necessity for the prosecution of this young and beautiful actress?". By the way, the social necessity is that she breaks the law. Often. Just because she's "beautiful" and only has "minor troubles" with the law does not put her above the law. I do not like the author's view points at all, and most likely I do not like him/her.
ReplyDeleteThe author is clearly against violence because he refers to it as, "aimless violence". He is also obviously a republican because he blames the liberal party for the problems with wall street.
ReplyDeletethe author is definitely a republican who is against violence, since he refers to occupy wallstreet as "aimless violence". He also obviously doesn't like Obama and calls him a socialist. the author is probably a fan of Lindsay Lohan, but clearly thinks our government should be focusing on other things and "leave her alone". Altogether, I actually kind of agree with him and understand his biases.
ReplyDeleteThe author is definitely on the republican side and is against violence "aimless violence" as he said it. The author also blames other parties for the issues on wallstreet.
ReplyDeleteAnthony
This author is defiantly biased towards republicans. I can tell this due to the fact that he only mentions those in the movement as negative and the republican party in a positive light. In his other articles he leaps from one problem to the next even if they do not have to do with his original argument.
ReplyDeleteThe blogger is very biased and its shown in his post " Couldn't We Just Leave Lindsay Lohan Alone?" he accuses the attorney general of pursuing an illegal political agenda and the president of refusing to enforce immigration laws without providing any proof or facts
ReplyDeleteThe writer is most definatly bias to the Republicans. MOstly everything he says about the republicans is good and he blames the other parties for the problems on Wall Street. Also, the author is against "aimless violence" as he refers to it in the first article.
ReplyDeleteThe author is clearly bias about President Obama. In his article,Script For Ashton Kutcher's Debut on "Two and a Half Men" Was Unimaginatively Written,you can clearly catch his insults on the president. He starts out by saying, "I've been planning to write a long article on the debacle of Obama's foreign policies, but this is such a dreary and predictable subject, well analyzed already by outstanding observers, that I can hardly bring myself to begin the article, despite the high probability that Obama's policies will bring war in the Middle East and a "Munich" moment with China in Southeast Asia." And ends his article by saying "Eventually, I will write the article about ignorant Obama's march to international doom." The way he started his article and ended it are completely irrelevant to the main point of the article. If he's bashing Obama in an article about a t.v. show that isn't relevant to him at all,you can infer that in his articles about Obama he is much more critical.
ReplyDeleteThe author of the blog is mentally and emotionally disturbed by violence "aimless violence, we are reminded of protests, urban riots, and the self-inflicted incineration of black neighborhoods in the 1960s" The author is also against Obama and speaks as though Obama is a puppet master, the author must be a conservative. The author also seems to not be on good terms with the socialist party and uses their name as an insult which I believe is uncalled for because socialists have very agreeable doctrines.
ReplyDeletethe writer is bias in favor of the republicans by saying that Obama is making a mistake and by blaming other parties for the problems today they are confirming this.
ReplyDeleteThe author of this article obviously does not like violence or republicans. He insults the president repeatedly and goes against anything he says. He makes many bad predictions about Obama as well.
ReplyDeleteThe author is obviously against violence, calling it "aimless". He also appears to be Republican because of his criticism to Obama and his article about how Democrats are trying to get rid of Cain, only because he is black and Democrats want to be credited for being "the only political party that legitimately represents black Americans."
ReplyDeleteThe author of this article appears to be against violence because he calls it "aimless violence". He also is on the Republican side calling Obama a socialist and blames other parties for the problems in wall street -Connor McCrory
ReplyDeleteThe author of Lohan's article is showing his side by saying "I suggest we declare the war against Lindsay Lohan is won, withdraw our troops, and leave her alone" and it shows his emotion of why he thinks "minor troubles are a waste of legal time" and in summary he shares his position on what crimes and fell-any should be severed in jail and what should not be.
ReplyDeleteThe article titled "Why Is Poverty So High and Income Gap So Wide? Look To Government's Role." demonstrates an obvious bias against government intervention in economy and employment. Claiming that government policies ultimately become part of the problem, the article suggests people acquire jobs not under welfare reform. The author ends the article with the thought that "Because of demotivation, governmental subsidy to the poor holds the poor back, preventing them from reducing the income gap with other social classes."
ReplyDeleteEthan 6th period
The author of this article is against violence, and also bias towards the Republican party. In the article, he call Obama a socialist, and claims government intervention is the cause of unemployment and or current economic situation.
ReplyDeleteRachel, 8th hour