In a message dated 21/02/2003 01:05:42 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I agree with the points made in Chomsky's The Manufacture of Consent - that editors tend to employ people who are like them, which means there's an inherent conservatism in the way news organizations evolve. It applies as much to the left as to the right. Radical departures from a newspaper's ideology in search of truth are rare. >> I would take issue with your statement that it applies as much to left as right. Although that is true *in theory*, in practice, I think you would agree, the people who own these monstrous organisations are unequivocally to the right politically. Murdoch, Conrad Black, Berlusconi, etc etc. Azeem
