--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 9/9/06 11:48:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > jstein@ writes: > > > > > > > > > Right, that's why ABC sent copies of the film to > > > > right-wingers and refused to send it to lefties, > > > > and is now fighting tooth and nail against liberal > > > > critics of the film. And why CBS deferentially > > > > obeyed its right-wing critics who objected to the > > > > Reagan film and took it off the air. And why > > > > Disney wouldn't distribute Michael Moore's film. > > > > And why the media attacked Gore during the 2000 > > > > campaign using the lies the RNC sent them. > > > > > > > > If liberals tried to take over journalism and the > > > > media, let's hope the evangelicals will be just > > > > as successful. > > > > > > > > So Judy, let me ask you, where on the political spectrum do > you > > > place, in > > > > general, the major media? ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, The largest news > > > papers and > > > > magazines like The NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, > Newsweek, > > > Time etc. I take > > > > it that you don't find them liberal but based upon your > comments > > > above > > > > surely you don't find them conservative , do you? Based upon > what > > > you are saying , > > > > it almost sounds like you can't consider somebody a liberal > > unless > > > they are > > > > an out and out Marxist. > > > > > > I'm not going to dignify that with a response. > > > > P.S.: I will point out, however, that your nitwit > > comment was made *in lieu of* addressing my examples > > of right-wing mainstream media bias. > > > > Ah, so I am right. In order for you to consider the media liberal > they would > > actually have to be what most people consider far left wing. > > Well, no, and how you could get that from what I > wrote, I can't imagine. > > No, I don't > > think the media is far left wing but does have a general slant to > the left that > > they try to keep subtle so as to not openly appear biased thus > ruining their > > credablility. > > Translation: if the media leans to the left, it's > because it's left-wing. > > But if it leans to the right...it's because it's > left-wing. > > As for ABC's decisions about who got previews of the mini series > > and who didn't, I can't say, but one example of showing a little > favoritism > > to one side, if in fact it happened,( some how the Clinton > administration got > > previews or they wouldn't be complaining) > > No, the Clinton folks didn't get copies, lefty > bloggers didn't get copies, Democrats didn't > get copies. It's not impossible somebody sent > Clinton's people one under the table, but there's > been enough reported--including verbatim dialogue-- > about what goes on in the film that they didn't > have to see it to know there was plenty to > complain about. > > ,doesn't correct decades of > > showing favoritism to the other. > > That's a right-wing myth. It was started deliberately. > There was never any truth to it. > > CBS I'm sure, made a business decision. They were > > about to offend an entire nation, one that had > voted Ronald Reagan, America's most popular president
A bit of follow-up on this. First, as I documented, "the entire nation" never voted Ronald Reagan America's most popular president. CBS pulled the movie because a bunch of vocal right- wingers complained. They were the people CBS didn't want to offend, not "the entire nation." Second, two more fascinating inaccuracies in the film: Remember your story about the Times revealing that the government had Osama bin Laden's cell phone number, and that he had never made any calls on that phone after the Times came out with the story? That was completely false, as I documented in response. Well, that *same* right-wing lie turns up in "The Path to 9/11," except it claims the Washington Post rather than the Times broke the story. Neither, of course, was the case. And then the first scenes in the movie show Mohammed Atta getting his tickets for the American Airlines flight at Logan Airport, an alarm coming up on the ticket agent's computer, and a supervisor telling the agent that they could skeip searching him, despite the alarm, and just hold his baggage till he got on the plane. The scene is designed to convey the impression that American Airlines fell down on the job by skipping a mandated search. Except that (a) the alarm incident didn't happen at Logan, it happened at the airport in Maine where Atta caught his flight to Logan (b) on a completely different airline; and (c), the alarm that came up did not mandate a search, but only that his luggage be held till he boarded, so the agents followed the correct procedure. Wonder if American Airlines will have any more luck than Clinton's people in making ABC fix the errors. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
