Monday, June 16, 2008
Department of redundancy
Regarding the establishment of a liberal book club to cater to lefties:
Some in the publishing industry questioned whether liberals need a specific book club. Voicing an oft-repeated maxim, David Rosenthal, publisher of Simon & Schuster, said, “One might say the entire book industry is largely a progressive book group.”
Of course, the people who call for the reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine on talk radio would never dream of demanding the same for the publishing industry.
CWCID: John J. Miller.
2 Comments:
By 
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Mon Jun 16, 10:38:00 AM:
I imagine that people who invoke the fairness doctrine would have no problem with you calling for it, so long as you could demonstrate in statistical ways (rather than anecdotal or personal inferential ones) that a bias exists. Also, you have to come up with the methodology before you see what the methodology gives as a result, ie no tweaking based on outcome. I just haven't seen people persuasively do it in books. (And the times when I have seen people claiming to have found a "liberal bias" in the media, either 1: they haven't rigorously defined "liberal" or 2: rerunning their own tests obviates their results.) Assumed bad faith much?
By , at
Mon Jun 16, 04:01:00 PM:
I think you mean Department of Redundancy Department.
