I agree with you about the biases in the mainsteam media, kropotkin. And I expect Magoo does as well. But it really is a matter of degrees, and we are talking about two separate things - agenda and bias (which we all have to some degree), and the willingness to let that agenda override a sense of fairness and honesty.
I have read writers who with whom I might agree on a specific issue, but also realize that they are completely useless because what they are writing is propaganda, and if there was an important counter argument I couldn't trust them to mention it. By contrast I have read writers with whom I completely disagree politically, but whose opinion and respect for fairness I know I can trust.
As for Richard, the first time he posted here I thanked him for bringing up things I was not fully aware of. In that sense I find some of his material worthwhile, if only because it gives me some impetus to dig into it and find how much is truth, and what has been left out. And as Magoo says, those omissions and leaps of logic are sometimes glaring.
I do care about these issues he posts about, and more importantly, I care about fairness in reporting. I don't just jump in to give him a hard time. If he does want to post here I wish he would drop this rhetoric about people being angry, abusing him, or wanting to post. I know it might be too much to ask to expect him to give a bit of ground and recognize that there is blame on all sides here; I'd settle for just having conversation without the implication that people are trying to shut him down, or that this is somehow suppressed information, or that there is something wrong with having a range of opinion here.
