Wednesday, February 11, 2009

White man can't jump


For many years people have had the notion that black people play basketball, white people play golf, and people from Boston and Minnesota play hockey. This stereotypes have been backed up by some pretty heavy statistics. But if people would use their eye's they would see what I see in that, almost every NBA player is over 6'6, every golf player has been practicing since the age of 5, and Minnesota is right next to Canada. People play these sports because it is regional or because they were gifted with these height, or because their parents taught them. I believe that these myths, though backed up by many stats, can be proved false. In hockey there are people from the tropics who become stars in the NHL, just how in the NBA there are people like Steve Nash who are from Canada and just have a great basketball intuition. In Golf people like John Daly can hit the ball a mile and he even admits he doesn't put as much time into it as he should. Everywhere there is a stat to prove a point there are other stats to disprove that point. In my opinion people need to keep an open mind about these topics because there are always exceptions to every stat.

The biased sides of Media



Today in class OC made a comment about how Fox news is a "Right wing propaganda machine". At the time this made me very angry because in my opinion, Fox news is the only news station that is not horribly liberal. Because I remember just as clear that the anchors on MSNBC called president Bush, "Bush". I think it is a lone island surrounded by a sea of liberal media. But in this post I am going
to try and take a neutral side.
Many people believe that the news has its neutral stations like CBS, PBS, and ABC. Then there are the two polar stations in MSNBC (liberal) and FOX (conservative). Every single republican has its counter part, Bill O'Reilly and Keith Oberman. Ying and yang. To really get a scope of everything, one must watch Fox and MSNBC to get both points of view.
Back to what I believe, even though in my opinion almost every station is liberal, I should watch MSNBC to get a different point of view. This is the great thing about media, there are stations for everyone (some more than others).