User talk:Dean Sayers

Yeah, I'm not really sure how to go about this seeing as I only made this account to try and support your page on the band Ramallah. I posted some info on there that may back you up or just repeat what you've said. It may be kind of late but I just think that page needs to be ressurected.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Blood raiser (talk • contribs) 04:39, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I read a lot of Israeli / Palestinian history articles and their bias, in regards to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, is clearly in favor of Israel at least on Wikipedia. Other conflicts with similarity, such as South African Apartheid (which Israel militarily backed) paint a clear picture of the conflict, whereas other IDF actions are whitewashed so as to leave the conflict open for interpretation by the layman. Let's hope that these bigots learn to respect human rights.

It's said that the difference between propaganda and education is that with education what one learns is open for interpretation.--Urthogie 18:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder, though, if anythign can be described as not propaganda. All (publicized) works serve one specific interest: to inform the reader, whether it be a fictional story, basic fact or "misinformation." And no writer is fully unbiased. It follows, I would say, that all writing has propanganda, overt or latent, especially if it concerns any issue considered strongly by the public.Dean Sayers 15:33, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If all writing is propaganda, then how do you personally distinguish between truth and falsehood.--Urthogie 21:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If one doesn't reecognize their own fallability, one has failed inherantly. We all have to do our best to see the truth through the words and spin of the person speaking to us, of course. We all know that Fox and CNN will be a good deal more conservative than Haaretz or al-Jaezeera on middle eastern issues, while Haaretz wil have an Israeli - oriented skew and al-Jazeera will have an Arab slant - but the whole sum of what one knows about such issues as learned via these programs will paint a better picture, regardless of your perspective. It is dangerous to consider words potentially virgin and infalliable - our mistakes accentuate our truth and beauty compellingly; with their absence we are missing important parts of our personalities.Dean Sayers 23:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]