From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
Subject: Re: Media Bias? YOU Decide. Resumes Tell All
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:19:53 GMT

>
>The fact is that Clinton's assertions on "the worst economy in 50 years" could
>have been flatly contradicted by any Joe Reporter with a dime-store almanac. 
>Why did the media take these statements at face value?  The so-called 'media
>truth squads' tore Bush's statements apart, while completely ignoring this and
>other Clinton prevarications; the Wall Street Journal *did* consult an almanac, 
>and promptly labelled it "the worst lying about the economy in 50 years."  Some
>attention was paid to Quayle's charge that Gore's book called for $100 million
>in environmental spending.  Gore denied it, and the media bought it -- but
>those who read the book know that Quayle didn't invent that figure.  In fact,
>Quayle offered proof to the media of all of the charges he made against Gore --
>where did it appear?  (A rhetorical question, indeed.)  Larry King successfully
>ambushed Bush on his show by giving Clinton's communications director a private
>line to call in on -- and then denied it, even as his producer admitted it. 
	Sorry, can't let this one pass.  The  *fact* is that Quayle claimed
that Gore had called on the USA to spend $100 million on environmental cleanups,
which was an outright lie.  Gore's book suggests that the amount necessary
would be on the order of what was spent on the Marshall Plan after WW II, which
would have been about $100 million in contemporary dollars.  He goes on to say
that the USA could not possibly pay for all that alone and, in *fact*, calls
for a consortium of nations to foot the bill.
	If this is your idea of "truth" then you're right...further discussion
is quite impossible and I see no point in it at all.  It's becoming rather
obvious to me that to those on the political fringes, the myth of a monolithic
media establishment biased against their cause is an essential article of
faith; a positive sine qua non for the maintenance of the proper siege
mentality.  An "iron ring" of enemies (to quote another fringe political
leader from the past..) is necessary to keep the faithful..well...faithful.
[...]
>
>>>"He walks again by night!  Out of the fog, into the smog -- doggedly...
>>>relentlessly... ruthlessly... toward his weekly meeting with The Unknown..." 
>> "At Fourth and Drucker he turns left.  At Drucker and Fourth he turns right.
>> He crosses McArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building.
>> <smack> <"Ouch, my nose!">"
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                Hey.... SOMEbody remembers!  
>
	I have all their albums, and an additional 11 hours of their "Dear
Friends" radio show, which I'm airing in bits and pieces on my own show every
Sunday.
Chuck
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