In another vein, Brian Bailey, author of, "The Blogging Church," recently wrote in his "Leave It Behind" blog following a poll he took of his readers to see which Christmas ads they liked best,
First, nearly everyone's favorite commercial was done by their favorite candidate. In a way, this should be obvious, but I still found it surprising. It's instructive to realize that when you're watching a speech or commercial by your candidate and thinking, How could anyone not like this guy?", others are wondering how anyone could. Once you've found a candidate whose message you connect with, you view everything about that person and his or her opponents through a filter.
Do you agree with that?
I think I'd have to agree Mr. Bailey's assertion.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I'd like to think of myself as being unbiased, I'm sure I see many things through a sort of "filter". So I'm probably not always entirely objective. That said, I do try to make an conscious effort to set my filter as close to the "unbiased" position as possible.
I find for myself that the best way is to give everything a second look. I find that the more times a run bits of information through my filter, I tend to let go of any emotional/knee-jerk reactions to whatever it is I'm seeing, hearing, etc.
It's sort of like seeing a movie or TV show for a second or third time. You start to notice things you didn't notice the first time.