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Slashdaughters, let us avoid the tendency to take the focused ruling in a specific legal case and spread it over our most elaborate paranoid fantasies.
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People, and that includes people like you, will start shoplifting, then start looting, then start shooting. Monsanto employees will be doing the same thing, too. Nobody will have much use for any kind of intellectual-property horseshit when their real property starts going up in flames.
Good troll!
Do you read these things at all? This study does nothing to further your assertion that "Fox [is] the most balanced in straight reporting".
The study covered *only* 2008 Election stories during the prime time evening news shows for a period of 3 1/2 months in late 2007.
The methodology was to look for "positive" and "negative" comments about candidates. Suppose we had a story about a serial killer. By this methodology, if the news program called him a thug twice, and a blessing once, then we'd have an "unbalanced" news report which was 66% negative and 33% positive.
(Interesting to note that by these measures, the Fox news was close to 50+/50- for democratic candidates, but the others averaged 47+/53- for those democratic candidates.)
If you wish to learn more, go to SourceWatch.com (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Media_and_Public_Affairs) and find out who funds the Center for Media and Public Affairs (http://www.cmpa.com/). At the time of the report, the president of the CMPA, S. Robert Lichter, was a paid Fox News contributor.
What really scares me is when advertisers know stuff about me that *I* don't even know. Like the fact that I will need Viagra tomorrow, or that I am about to receive a million dollars from my Nigerian uncle.
The two-hour hearing, in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, was in response to motions for summary judgement filed by both sides. The judge can now rule for Vernor or for Autodesk or send the case to trial.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin