--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/9/06 11:27:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com) > , MDixon6569@, MDi > > > > > > In a message dated 9/8/06 11:45:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > jstein@ writes: > > > > That's a right-wing myth, actually, promoted in a book > > by right-winger Bernard Goldberg after he got fired > > from CBS. It's been busted six ways to Sunday. For > > example, see: > > > > > > > > No Judy , it was not a myth. I witnessed it almost every night as I > was an > > avid news watcher. Every time I heard those comments I wondered to > myself "how > > do they get away with that?" along with the smirks and roll of the > eyes and > > other body language that was used. This was long before people > started to call > > attention to it. Long before the was a Rush Limbaugh or > conservative talk > > radio. Not only did I notice the obvious bias but my family and > friends did as > > well because we often would comment to one another about it. > > Unfortunately, what you "notice" from your right-wing > perspective doesn't count as evidence. There isn't > anything to call attention *to*. When folks have > actually researched this myth using Lexis/Nexis > transcripts, it's been found to be false. > > It's hard to do a search for, but I'll keep trying. > > Smirks and eye-rolling, BTW, does happen on Fox, but > not on respectable news outlets. > > Judy don't waist your time doing google searches because most of the most > blatant comments showing favoritism such as the comments I made started back in > the 70's and went up through the early 90's prior to the public having as > many PC's as is common now. While you can google a transcript you'll never pull > up a smirk, or a roll of the eyes.
Um, I wasn't proposing to do that. But if you'll assure me that the "blatant comments showing favoritism" happened only prior to the Web, that'll relieve me of the need to search for the various research efforts showing that there weren't any afterwards. Only the major networks are going to have > the tapes of their nightly broadcasts and surely you wouldn't expect them to > document their own bias, now would you? Just because you can't google > something doesn't mean it didn't exist. Why not meet some conservative people that > were conservative during that time period and old enough to remember watching > the media then and get their opinions? Because my experience has been that "conservative opinions" are rarely grounded in fact. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
