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Originally posted by justamom
What? That CNN is more slanted or Liberals are more noisy?
Ah DA, sometimes I feel like we are BOTH trying to convert the "sinners"!
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I have to figure out how to convert myself first. Although I'm not sure what I want to convert myself into.
Honestly, I think over the past few years, the Conservatives have been the "noisiest" -- noted by the Rush like radio shows and all of the religious cable shows/channels. I think we're beginning to see some backlash to that at this point as even some of the more moderate of those on the "Right" are affected by events in Iraq.
Truth is that there is no real answer to this perceived difference in news organizations (with the exception of FOX who, I must say again, has an obvious ((Republican)) agenda) because unless the reportage is pretty much exactly in line with our own leanings, it will always seem slanted one direction or the other.
I noted that again yesterday, CBS (Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes) admitted to "holding" a story at the express request of the Government involving the alleged spying of (elder moment, can't remember the name) the man who we were paying $300,000 per month to advise us on the war and post war. If that network leaned left, there's no way that would have happened. In fact, they take huge amounts of flack for allowing the government to "censor" thier journalistic efforts. I call it being a good citizen. Recall that they did the same thing -- two weeks in a row -- on the Prison scandal.
When viewer or listener phone calls, e-mails and letters on a given topic are pretty well divided between complaints and compliments, which is almost always the case, you have to figure that you're doing a reasonable (nobody is perfect) job. When you work in a newsroom, pretty much everyone fields these phone calls -- and that's been my experience over these many years.
Well, I certainly didn't mean to write this much. Getting on now with the weekend.
Hope you all have a good one.