Originally posted by patrick9 Maybe they were talking about the left. As an independent moderate I see both sides move to the extreme ,but the dem's seem to have moved the farthest.
To say that, you would have to be looking from the right already, and biased. The Republican party has changed radically in the last 10 years. If the Democratic party has changed, it's moved slightly right from the 70's.
Quote: ...If you take Fox news and any of the mainstream news combine them some where in the middle is the truth.but to get your info from one or two sources is not the best way IMHO.
This misconception is what I've been talking about. CNN for example already sits smack in the middle. Their news coverage does not lean left - it only apears to be 'left' when compared to Fox News, which is far right. Folks often say "they are equally biased, the truth lies somewhere in the middle." This is
false. It's like two people looking at a red shirt, one saying it's a shade of red and another saying it's blue. A third person who happened to be color blind might assume that perhaps it's 'somewhere in the middle', maybe purple.
So many casual news observers these days are the equivalent of that color blind person.