--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inept, but still able to coordinate the release or > restriction of > certain videos (Berg, 911 jumpers, etc)? I suppose > it depends on what > ineptitude you're calling them on.
It's not about conspiracy, it's about groupthink. > > We agree that most of mass media is corrupt, but I > think we disagree as > to the source of that corruption. It is not, as you > make pains to > insist, that they are leftist dupes. It is that they > are greed Where did I say corrupt? I don't think they're corrupt. I think they honestly believe certain things which I happen to disagree with. That doesn't have anything to do with corrupt. > > > Fox exploited a fairly obvious market > > niche (a news broadcast not skewed to the left) > > That's like saying that white is a color "not skewed > towards the black." > I'm sure that it would be possible to create a > "news" network to the > right of Fox, but I think that people would catch on > the first time that > swastika logo showed up. You know, the argument that people who disagree with you on the right are Nazis is so pathetic it's not even worth my time to answer. > ABC, CBS, NBC, et al, are entertainment businesses > that have > entertainment programs structured around the events > of the day. > Broadcast news is hardly much more than a > reality-based TV show. They > don't sit around figuring out what stories to cover > (and how) based on > how they'll support their supposed liberal agenda. > I've worked in a > broadcast news organization that had its share of > conservatives, > liberals and people on all sorts of political > dimensions. I'm sure that > any individual story reflected the biases and > experience of the > reporter, but I'm equally sure that the overall mix > did not. Which organization? And do you mean "conservative" by your standards, or by the standards of the American public as a whole. Because I bet they're not the same. I can tell you what John Stossel once told me - that a sign of how far to the left TV news is is that people think he's a conservative - when he is, of course, a libertarian. > > As for your earlier claim that TV news didn't show > the 911 jumpers or > the Berg murder because it didn't support their > biases, I think not. > What's more, I don't think America needs any more > whipping-up. But that's your opinion, isn't it? I happen to disagree. I think too many Americans are forgetting exactly what happened, and we need to remember who our enemies are. > It is not a sign of media bias that TV presents > everything as black and > white, but it is a sign of black-and-white thinking > that you and others > persist in the "liberal media" witch hunt. Or it could be that the witches are really out there... > They're not alone in that. Most of the rest of the > world kept its distance. So what? > > > It does not understand how educated, sensible > people > > could possibly be wary of multilateral > institutions or > > friendly, sophisticated European allies. > > Perhaps "it" (this monolithic vast left-wing > conspiracy you imagine to > lurk behind media) *does* understand, but doesn't > organize its > programming around any particular small > constituency. No conspiracy. Just a lot people who think alike. Those biases affect their coverage. How many evangelical Christians do you think report for the New York Times? For CNN? Does that bias their coverage? A very high proportion of the population of the US - something over a third - is evangelical Christians. I'd be shocked if the equivalent proportion is 5% among elite news organizations. Something around 40% of Americans identify themselves as "conservative". What do you think that proportion is at the Washington Post - 10%? I'd be surprised if it's even 5%, actually. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861
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