From: dp
Subject: Re: Media Bias?????
Organization: Texas Instruments
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:14:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.151141.21731@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, sschudt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Susan E Schudt) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Last night, while watching the convention, I heard a sppech from Governor 
|> Voinovich talking about George Bush and education.  I heard speeches from Mrs. 
|> Quayle and Mrs. Bush about family values.  Also, I watched Lee Greenwood 
|> introduce seven people who had come out of poverty or conquered a handicap.  
|> Each one of these people thanked George Bush for allowing this to happen.
|> 
|> Two nights ago I heard Jack Kemp talk about the domestic policies he and Bush 
|> want to and have been trying to implement - the most important one being 
|> enterprise zones.  Kemp talked about many other things the administration wants
|> to do to help people become part of the working and prosperous economy.
|> 
|> 
|> All that said, what did I hear on NBC Today?  Furthermore, what have I heard 
|> since these speeches?  Nothing, except questions about Hillary Clinton and 
|> Buchanan's references to her.  Clinton complains Bush isn't talking about 
|> issues.  All I have ever heard the past few days is issues.  Does the media 
|> care?  Does Clinton care?  NO.  Maybe HE can't talk about issues.  Why has he 
|> put a piece of tape over Hillary's mouth?  What are the deathocrat's so afraid 
|> of????
|> 
|> 
|> I can't wait til the debates.  I suppose though, that they will find some way 
|> to bias THOSE too!
|> -- 

Perhaps Barbara Bush hit the nail on the head the best the other night while
being interviewed by PBS/NBC coverage when the question of media bias came up.
Mrs. Bush asked the interviewer where the press was defending the President
during the Democrat Convention.  The interview was left momentarily speechless
because she knew that Mrs. Bush was right.

This morning on Barbara Bush appeared on NBC's Today Show.  She was asked if
having her speak to the convention wasn't an desperate attempt of the 
Republicans to capitalize on the fact that she is the most popular Republican
in America.  Mrs. Bush pointed out that her speach was not very important.  
When this idea was questioned, Mrs. Bush pointed out that she had also
addressed the 1988 Republican Convention and then bet that they (NBC) didn't
even remember it.  They not only forgot what she said, but that she had even
addressed the Republican Convention.

It would appear that the media are so accustomed to ignoring the truth until
they are confronted with it by someone who has a 70% approval rating in the
polls.  I gues that we really shouldn't be suprised when we remember that these
are the same TV networks that consider that 20-30 million people watching
"Murphey Brown" represent a majority of Americans.  Never mind that there are
over 200 million of us - over six times as many - that do not watch the show.
Never mind that 60-70% (depending on which poll you looked at) of Americans
SUPPORTED Dan Quayle's views on the root cause of the problems in the inner
cities  -  including those that live there.  Given a not so popular mouthpiece,
they painted a picture that the VP is some kind of rightwing conservative, out
of touch with mainstream America.

Have you heard anyone in the media point out that it was Al Gore that
introduced the W. Horton issue in the 1988 campaign.  Oops, another fact
"forgotten".

Let's face it, if President Bush had Clinton's campaign advisors, he'd be
defending the '88 "Read my lips, NO NEW TAXES" promise/1990 tax hike something
like this:

   "Can't you see what they're doing; they're obviously desperate.  They refuse
    to talk issues.  Instead they insist on these personal attacks, attacking
    me,  attacking my family.  They say that they're not going to engage in
    sleazy politics.  You have to forgive them, that's all they know how to do.
    Now let's get to the facts.  There were no new taxes since I've been the
    President."

I wonder if the press would allow george Bush to get away with slick
half-truths like this.  Perhaps they would have even defended him during the
attacks on his character during the Democrat Convention by pointing out that
the President's claims were true.  "The Democrats are distorting the truth.
There were no new taxes (only increases in the taxes that were already in
place)."

Naaah, they wouldn't report anything like that, that would be biased.


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