OT a chance to relax with the radio

But Mrs Clinton _isn't_ a racist, narcissistic, thug. TW

That's ok, you can go ahead anyway and post that she is and she won't sue you after the election.

She is though.

Try this instead - the fastest growing station the the world.

Often though if you go into listening to these things with a bias yourself, you can normally find one I have a friend who can spot bias in the opposite direction to yours. People are always going to have some form of bias, its who we are and really often its very hard to squeeze out of existence, since depending on who are involved and who are making the programme, they don't actually see any bias themselves. I do have to say though that often its easy to blame things on a monolithic party or leader than it is to just analyse the facts and see where the problems are. Pigeon holing is alive and well.

You see it in the group people put me into 'the blind' No we are really not 'The Blind we are people with poor to no sight either born that way or acquired over the years and no amount of looking at our often normal looking eyes will get them any closer to see as we do and we all see differently. People just leap to a conclusion and use the same paint for all things similar. Bias is a fact of life. Brian

NO, Brian, but prejudice is.

And there is a very good reason.

Data storage. The human mind cannot store and process all the data it has access to, and a huge part of what it does is compress enormous amounts of data into 'filters' that have names.

'blind' is such a filter. 'blind' is a quick'n'dirty category in which to bung anyone with pretty impaired vision. For most purposes its good enough. Of course you as a 'blind' person with a particular form of visual impairment will protest that this is a very blunt instrument indeed, however the rest of the world to a large extent doesn't have time for '50 kinds of snow'. It's snow, that's all.

That is prejudice, that is necessary. Bias is not necessary. Bias happens when people deliberately ignore the fact of their own prejudice by refusing to admit there is another side, or that their categories are in any need of refinement..

In article , Bill Wright scribeth thus

Try Radio 3 then Bill;)....

In message , Simon Mason writes

If you want to listen to a machine playing heavily overcompressed uninspiring "music", by the trade aka "product".

With sound quality like that it's no wonder the page says, "Bringing back the golden era of offshore AM radio".

Maybe they could digitally recreate that wow from turntables playing in rough seas which was so characteristic of Radio Caroline.

It gives another meaning to retro music.

Delighted to see you giving an example of the lack of bias on the BBC. Given how full it is of vicious attacks on Blair.

But does he find the need to post to a DIY group about it?

Given the rant was about R4, would music prog be a suitable alternative?

Why not just point to this web page and save writing your own version of philosophical categorisation?