No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.
You say it like it's a bad thing. Odd.
Small-town America fights for its life
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#12For the lazy, here's a streetview of the church. It is indeed quite nice:
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#13Environmental destruction is the story here, but with one misunderstanding.
> Rural America is eroding. If you talk to farmers such as Short and Roger, they lament it. But almost nobody thinks it can be prevented. More efficient farming...
The new farming isn't more efficient physically, chemically, or biologically. It consumes without replacing resources like topsoil, biodiversity, water, etc. It looks more efficient financially only by neglecting the future costs to restore those resources.
I wouldn't call willful, determined overuse "erosion," though. I would call it destruction.
We've created financial incentives to eat our seed corn as a culture and the article presents one place it's playing out. Destroy the environment and people will leave it.
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#14No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.
You say it like it's a bad thing. Odd.
I only pointed it out because people might not be aware since it's a smaller publication. Nobody needs to be told about Mother Jones' or Fox News' bias.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say it like it's a bad thing. Odd.
I only pointed it out because people might not be aware since it's a smaller publication. Nobody needs to be told about Mother Jones' or Fox News' bias.
Would you have done the same thing for a leftist biased publication?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only pointed it out because people might not be aware since it's a smaller publication. Nobody needs to be told about Mother Jones' or Fox News' bias.
Would you have done the same thing for a leftist biased publication?
Maybe! If it was tiny and I felt like it was important. I'd definitely remember to include a link to a neutral source, though.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only pointed it out because people might not be aware since it's a smaller publication. Nobody needs to be told about Mother Jones' or Fox News' bias.
Would you have done the same thing for a leftist biased publication?
Would you be asking these questions if he had pointed out that a publication was leftist?
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#18No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.
> for sake of clarity
never heard of this newsource before but what kind of clarity is this additional information supposed to provide ?
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#19ah.. the Washington Examiner.... dubious.
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#20No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.
> for sake of clarity never heard of this newsource before but what kind of clarity is this additional information supposed to provide ?
Every media source has bias and I think people should be aware of them, especially for smaller sources like Washington Examiner.