From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 05:23:47 MDT
Joe Dees
Sent: 29 May 2004 12:31 PM
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).
---- [Blunderov] Surely though, the properties of water are universal? In which case the waters in which pro-Bush, pro-war fishes swim should be invisible to them too? I came across just such a fish the other day; 'The National Review On-line'. It was too small so I threw it back. Best Regards --- To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
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