{"id":18807,"date":"2013-01-30T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18807"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T19:44:11","slug":"qotd-confirmation-bias-theatre-of-the-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/qotd-confirmation-bias-theatre-of-the-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Confirmation-Bias Theatre Of The Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unlike Andrew Coyne and Pierre Karl P\u00e9ladeau, I am no expert on CRTC television policy. I couldn\u2019t tell you the difference between a \u201cmust-carry\u201d Class A license, a Class B carry-at-will, and a class X concealed-carry. But I do know a little about what makes for good journalism. And on that basis, I\u2019d hate to see <em>Sun News<\/em> get taken off the air for want of revenue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sun<\/em>\u2019s enemies accuse the network\u2019s hosts of being a bunch of haters. And it\u2019s hard to deny the charge. Among the people they hate: Occupy protesters, fake hunger strikers and sanctimonious left-wing activists.<\/p>\n<p>And Omar Khadr. Wow, do they hate Omar Khadr.<\/p>\n<p>We know this because <em>Sun News<\/em> TV segments tend to go light on actual news, and heavy on middle-aged white guys shouting about people they don\u2019t like. Sometimes, they sit around their Toronto studio interviewing each other. It\u2019s a sort of performance art that might well be dubbed \u2014 by the surprisingly large number of left-wing Toronto hipsters who watch the channel ironically \u2014 as Confirmation-Bias Theatre Of The Absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kay, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2013\/01\/29\/jonathan-kay-david-suzuki-is-poster-boy-for-why-canada-needs-suns-hater-brand-of-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;David Suzuki is poster boy for why Canada needs <em>Sun<\/em>\u2019s brand of journalism&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2013-01-29<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Andrew Coyne and Pierre Karl P\u00e9ladeau, I am no expert on CRTC television policy. I couldn\u2019t tell you the difference between a \u201cmust-carry\u201d Class A license, a Class B carry-at-will, and a class X concealed-carry. But I do know a little about what makes for good journalism. And on that basis, I\u2019d hate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,28,41],"tags":[1045,676,101],"class_list":["post-18807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-media","category-quotations","tag-confirmationbias","tag-crtc","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43066,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807\/revisions\/43066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}