What I am saying is that American news media, by and large, is biased in
it's reporting. Until last Tuesday you hardly heard a thing about the Sudan
(most people don't even know where it is), Afghanistan (nothing to speak of
about the Taliban until last Tuesday). But REAL NEWS, ah, there you go. Oh,
sure, O'Reilly brings on a token liberal here and there. Then he smugly cuts
them off in mid-sentence when the disagree with him. You will NEVER find
him, as you would not find Rush, in an open setting debating anyone where he
(or the news station) cannot control the situation. EVER.
Chandra Levy and Gary Condit! NOW THAT WAS NEWS. ALL FOUR CABLE NEWS
CHANNELS, 24x7, non-stop. Let me see, why focus on that so heavily? Hmm. I
wonder. Could it be that the stations are fairly biased towards
conservatism? Probably. Could it be that making so many (unsubstantiated)
allegations and smearing someone on TV who is (barely) a Democrat could end
a career and maybe put a (real) Republican in office? Surely. And all the
while there is a world with 6 billion people, 30 active wars or
insurrections, dictatorships, exploration, scientific breakthroughs, etc.
and they focus huge resources on that. Oh, the poor, starving media. But
they are stoic, no whining here. Ugh.
The Seattle WTO Conference. Let me guess, the media ONLY shows a very small
minority of Anarchists on the news each night, fighting with police. Almost
nothing about the largely peaceful side and WHY they are there. But hey, the
government (and the corporations that run it) are going to have the next one
in Qatar. "What?", you say. "That is an Arab country". Muslim. Why, yes,
that's right. And they have very strict and express laws against any form of
demonstrations and media coverage will be controlled.
Howard, I find it funny that you seem to think we are all so stupid and you
have all the answers. That we have no idea what is going on.
Grand conspiracy? No, I don't think that. I just think that the vast
majority of media is owned and operated and ultimately controlled by
conservative companies that want to keep what we hear and see to a minimum,
what they think we should hear and see. No, it is far more subtle than that.
It is the removing of almost any reporting on what our major corporations do
and get away with. It is a total lack of what I remember from the 60s and
70s of really hard, biting journalism. Frankly, the corporations just could
not have it. What do you see on the news about Exxon/Mobil, Shell or Chevron
and the civil rights abuses they help perpetrate in Africa or Indonesia? Not
a thing.
Please, Howard, do not insult our intelligence.
-Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:44 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: New News from Germany.
>
>
> Wasn't it Attorney General John Mitchell who called Washington Post
> Publisher Katherine Graham and told her she'd "find her titty in a ringer"
> if the Post published a story about his cover-up role in Watergate?
>
> The answer is yes, yes it was.
>
> There was a call that got a story quashed, wasn't it!
>
> Yes, for various reasons, stories have been quashed by publishers/owners
> after getting calls from powerful people -- but it happens
> rarely. And why?
> Because the public always finds out. A professional reporter or editor
> involved in the story will blabber and another news organization will
> GLEEFULLY pick up the story in order to embarrass the competition or shame
> another news organization.
>
> Sorry to disappoint you. There's no grand conspiracy here.
>
>
> H.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paris Lundis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:24 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: New News from Germany.
>
>
> I can believe the media is greatly filtered and controlled by federal
> government... I can speak personally, knowing reporters in part who
> have worked to break edgey editorials and features that were far
> reaching.
>
> Money issues aside, the powers that are make the rules. One call to the
> publisher and most things get squashed or the article gets edited by
> the government entities first.
>
> Mass media is less than honest on big stories like this attack... when
> it comes to hometown crap they tend to be fairly close... afterall who
> cares about a few peons.. it keeps us all happy arguing in our tiny
> sandboxes with each other, while the big fish swim right past us with
> everything in hand.
>
> [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
> [connecting people, places and things]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:25:59 -0700
> Subject: RE: New News from Germany.
>
> > I should add ... about the newspapers publishing extra editions at an
> > expense that will not be recovered -- and it won't ...
> >
> > If these newspapers had not published extra editions, most readers
> > never
> > even would have noticed ... so they would not have lost readers (very
> > few
> > newspapers today compete in a two newspaper town).
> >
> > Publishing a extra edition does nothing to bring in new subscribers.
> >
> > The churn rate among subscribers may subside a bit during the crisis
> > (translating into slightly higher subscription numbers), but no
> > newspapers
> > will be bumped up into the next circulation category which will allow
> > them
> > to raise their advertising rates.
> >
> > At a time when we are on the cusp of a recession, facing an uncertain
> > economic future, when overall advertising is already down (especially
> > in
> > classifieds, because of the Internet), these newspapers through the
> > accounting books out the window and did was was right from a news
> > perspective.
> >
> > I can't speak for the broadcast industry because I have no direct
> > experience
> > there, especially on the financial side, but I imagine their economic
> > conditions are not far removed from what newspapers are facing.
> >
> > H.
> >
>
>
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