Look, if gunmen took a hostage gunmen took a hostage. The schools getting built might perhaps be news, but it's not breaking front-page news. It might have its place in a longer piece about the effect of troops there or on what it is like to be a soldiee in Iraq doing these things, and I have seen thse stories too.
But to address the issue of whether the press should challenge the government, of course it should. Isn't that why the call it the fourth estate? It's supposed to be one of the checks and balances and it no longer is. Dana On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:46:56 -0600, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > I would agree with most of this. I would also add straight news > > however, which *is* possibel especially when dealiing with objective > > fact, ie "Gunmen in Baghdad today took an American journalist from his > > vehicle. His whereabouts are not currently known." > > Well 6 months ago the criticism wouldn't have been how that story was > reported, but that it was reported rather than, say, the fact that 10 > new schools were built. > > This is the scary part - there are actually a lot of people that > support the argument that the US should have more "news" supporting > pro-government positions. The same people then criticize al Jazeera > for taking supportive positions of anti-US governments or ideas. That > is, they feel if the "news" support the existing government it's ok, > but if it doesn't then it's propaganda. > > The disturbing solution has been to degrade the quality of our press > by creating an explicitly pro-government news network. > > I wouldn't argue that possibly CNN was biased, but the solution isn't > to create a network solely devoted to propaganda supporting other > views. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:150224 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
