Mark Finkelstein visited the Independent Media class yesterday and shared some of his conservative views on the Fox News vs. the White House and what it is like to be a republican in liberal Ithaca, NY. As Finkelstein began talking about certain journalists and broadcast news outlets we quickly discovered that his views of what was leftist and what was rightest was different from some of the people in the class.
Jeff Cohen drew a scale of what he thought was left and right and the mainstream media outlets fell in the center but leaned more to the right. Finkelstein disagreed with this scale and said that MSNBC was much more liberal than Cohen believed. How do we establish what is right, left or center if everyone has a different opinion on this? When I was talking to my father the other day about some of Obama's policies he thought that Obama was very liberal but I believed he was too moderate. The United States has always been diverse in their political views but it seems that lately there has been a debate between the left vs. right, yet many other degrees of the scale are left out of mainstream media.
I decided to test my own political stance by taking the Political Compass test at http://www.politicalcompass.org/test.
This is what the website bases their left and right sides on:
This is how I was placed on the scale:
Now this is just an Internet test but they do base their questions around historical
political figure's stances. It is just interesting to see where you fall on the scale.
I wonder where Fox News would fall? Maybe they would have to change their motto from
"Fair and Balanced" to "Conservative and Critical" (or conservative and crazy).
At least, they would be honest about where they stand on things.
Where do you fall? Do you think mainstream media provides an outlet for all sides of the scale?
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