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Skriven 2009-02-09 14:12:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: Revolutionary era news
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 BA>> I've found that newspapers pretty much keep their opinions on the
 BA>> editorial page.

 DD> Officially you are right. As one who made a good living in
 DD> the newspaper business - editorial slanting goes on in what
 DD> stories are covered, how they are covered and what is swept
 DD> under the rug or given short shrift.

 DD> A classic (and apocryphal) example is a cold war era report
 DD> in Pravda on a boat race between a USA boat and a USSR
 DD> boat. The Americans trounced the Russians soundly. But, the
 DD> Pravda headline read "Heroic Soviet Sailors Claim Second
 DD> Place In Epic Race. Americans Finish Next-To-Last."

 When I heard that one, bout 45 years ago, it was from a
 conservative high school buddy, and it was a foot race.

 DD> All that being said I find less and less bias in reportage
 DD> these days - no matter that the right wing say that the
 DD> media is "all liberal" and the left claims that the media
 DD> are the "tuchis lechers of big money".

 DD> Unlike what Faux News does (and is contrary to their
 DD> claims) - "fair and balanced" consists of pissing off all
 DD> sides equally. which is an hard balance to maintain.

 Did you read about O'Reily's lawsuit against Al Franken? About
 Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". It was
 about the picture of O'Reily on the cover, and the Subtitle, "A
 Fair and Balanced Look At the Right." The claim being that was
 stealing Fox New's slogan.

 Franken said, when you say someone was literally laughed out of
 court you really don't mean he was literally laughed out of
 court. In the case of O'Reily, he really was literally laughed
 out of court.



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