At 11:38 AM 8/14/01, Chad Cooper wrote:
> > examples I gave
> > above, there is certainly a difference in news coverage (particularly
> > local, but also national) between the two papers: in Birmingham, the
> > _News_ is noticeably more conservative than the
> > _Post-Herald_, and in SLC,
> > the _Deseret News_ is the LDS Church newspaper while the
> > _Trib_ is the
> > Gentile paper. Admittedly, many educated people living in
> > the area read
> > _both_ papers in order to get both slants (as do people in Denver and
> > Atlanta, but it's been long enough since I read those papers
> > regularly that
> > I can't speak to the present slant of their news content).
>
>Having been a 'Gentile' behind the 'Zion' curtain, I would strongly argue
>that the issue is related to censorship. The Church of Jesus Christ of
>Latter-day Saints has a great deal of control over what is published in the
>city. By The Trib being sold to an outside company, they lose the ability to
>use this medium in the degree it is used now. Forget Market share, this is
>about Mind share!
>
>Despite the appearance of the Trib being unbiased as the Deseret News is
>biased toward mormon culture, they both wield opinions coming from a common
>source. I believe that a sale of the Tribune to a "foreign" company is being
>fought, not for the cause of Free Enterprise, but to hold onto control of
>what the public reads. If I may quote the Mormons - "There must needs be an
>opposition in all things.".
You say that like it's a _bad_ thing . . .
;-)
--Ronn! :)
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