--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 9/11/06 7:16:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <snip> > Show me a law where it says that the public airwaves are obligated > to present both side of a story. Such a law would, indeed, be a > violation of the first amendment. > > Can you imagine if the news media always gave both sides > of any story they do, and do it fairly?
They're supposed to, and most of them try pretty hard. (A lot of the time, though, what it amounts to is quoting some blatant administration or right-wing lie and then instead of citing the facts, quoting a Democrat as saying it wasn't true--what's known as "s/he said-s/he said" journalism.) Of course it's not a *law*; Shemp for some reason can't grasp the difference between a law and an obligation. Nobody said there was a *law* to that effect. > Every issue would be like a trial on air and nobody would > watch any news. On television there isn't a lot of time to cover any one particular story, so you just see the bare bones. But you *usually* see both sides given, at least an abridged version thereof. (Except on Faux News, of course.) 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/
