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<p>[quote user="Bruce Kelly"]</p> <p>Threads being locked because of political discussion? If the standards applied here were applied to the magazine, much of what passes for editorial comment would not make it into print. I can think of one columnist in particular who they would have to drop in a heartbeat. No shortage of political opinion there, and very little of it substantiated by facts.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have often wondered about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The magazine is obviously editorially liberal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is their prerogative, and to be fair, there is nothing that says they can’t have one policy for the magazine and another for the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But still, one might wonder why they would do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A point to consider is that there is a fundamental structural difference between the magazine and the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The magazine is informational content projected to the public from a fixed group of originators, while the forum is a rambling exchange of information between members of the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With either format, the public receives information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, with the magazine, the editors can select the information projected, but with the forum they cannot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, if the editors of the magazine hold a political view and want only that view to be projected to the public, they can control that through the content they originate and publish in the magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the forum originates its own content, and it is just as likely to project political views that disagree with the magazine, as it is views that agree with the magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, in order to prevent the forum from projecting political views that conflict with the ideology of the magazine, they could ban political discussion from the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">That would be one explanation for the magazine promoting a political view, while prohibiting political discussion on the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But another possible explanation would be that the magazine simply does not see that they are projecting a political viewpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They might have a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">No Politics</span> rule for the magazine, and just not see the advocacy for HSR as being political.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Bernard Goldberg of CBS wrote a book called <i>Bias,</i> in which he made a case that CBS news did not see themselves as having a liberal bias because their worldview was liberal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t see liberalism as being just one pole of a political duality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To them, liberalism is just normally what is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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