From: a74k110@phobos.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Peterson)
Subject: Re: SC rally: "We don't want a draft dodger for president!"
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Reply-To: a74k110@phobos.ucc.umass.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:29:22 GMT
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In article <1992Sep9.164638.23642@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes...
> 
>My girlfriend saw this one on tv news.  I was suprised the local 
>station would report this one, rather than ignoring it as I would 
>have expected them to.
> 
>Clinton this weekend (sept 5-6) went to a rally in South Carolina.
>He was booed so hard and loud by a majority of the huge crowd that 
>he couldn't be heard at all.  The best part was the plane:  Overhead
>flew an airplane towing this banner:  "We don't want a draft dodger
>for president!".
> 
>The plane was lovely.  I wish she had recorded it on the vcr.  As
>I said, I am suprised that the tv news station here chose to cover it.
> 
>I have yet to see any mention of this wonderful event in our local
>paper, (which runs daily anti-Bush editorial cartoons).   I plan to
>go to the library and see which papers do cover the event, but I 
>imagine there are not many.  If the same thing had happened to Bush,
>you can bet it would be in every paper and tv news show.
> 
>How many of you saw this?  What did you think?  How many of you didn't
>know about this because your TV station or newspaper chose to deny you
>this knowledge?
> 
>Jim Del Vecchio


I saw it covered on most of the local TV reports, CNN, and at
least two of the other networks, I didn't watch the other network.

Republicans are full of crap in general, and this media bias bull is a great
example.

1) I love how the Republicans complain of liberal media bias, but
   say CNN seems to be the most fair.

2) This is because according to my observations, CNN goes the other way.
   You see it works like this, when a media outlet is mostly fair, the
   repubs claim liberal bias, but for them to admit that CNN is fair,
   it means that CNN actually has a conservative bias.  Actually, CNN
   is such a poor excuse for a news outlet, it doesn't surprise me that
   they stoop to such a level.

I'm a news junkie, and I spend a LOT of time reading and watching news,
and unfortunatly I spend too much time watching CNN for lack of another
avenue at certain times in the day.

Here's a couple of examples of CNN's bias:

Example 1) I'v seen them a numerous occasions do the following:
           "President Bush spoke today and said blah, blah, blah"
            (They cut to a video of Bush speaking).
           "Gov. Clinton spoke today and said blah, blah, blah"
            (They cut to a video of Clinton, but they don't turn on the
             sound of him speaking, and the REPORTER continues to say
             he said blah, blah, blah)


Example 2) The story of that South Carolina race track crowd booing Clinton
           was CNN's top story on the day it happened.  But, this labor
           day, when Bush was walking with Barb down the street in some city
           (I forget which) you could HEAR the crowd booing them, but CNN
           didn't mention it. AND AND they FAILED to mention or show him
           getting pelted by broccoli.  I'm sitting there watching CNN
           the whole day while I was working on my computer, and they
	   never mentioned this!  Then, I turned to the local TV news, and
	   CBS, and NBC, and I saw them mentioning and showing the broccoli
	   incident.  I'm sitting there wondering why the hell CNN failed
	   to show this. So, I wait to see if on their 10 PM news hour
	   they decide to show this, and again they fail to show it.

So, where's the liberal bias? eh? eh?  Actually, I think the truth is
that most of the media is just plain inept and basically suck when it
comes to reporting the WHOLE story.

-Chris


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