From: Joe Dees (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 04:31:22 MDT
Actually, Thornton is a professor at a California university.
People implicitly expect to have their news reflect a valid representation of the actual state or process of affairs as far as the subject of the reportage is concerned. Unfortunately, this expectation is unfulfilled, due to the twin pressures of 'if it bleeds, it leads' (negative news and setbacks are 'sexier' that positive news and accomplishments), and the liberal (translation, anti-bush, therefore anti-war) bias of reporters. I'm not saying that they all do so consciously (although many do); it's just that when you are swimming in the same anti-Bush and anti-war stream as your fellow fishes, the water in which your school swims and which buoys most of you along is invisible to you (but not to the populace at large, which is why news reporters rank around the level of used-car salesmen and repo men in the trust and respect granted to them by the general citizenry).
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