From: garrett@Ingres.COM (TRUTH IS. BELIEF IS NOT REQUIRED.)
Subject: Re: Media Coverage (Re: CNN bias
Summary: Hogwash  
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Date: 28 Jan 93 01:51:20 GMT

In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan27133743@gauss.nmsu.edu>, ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)                            writes...
>In article <1993Jan26.015640.14057@pony.Ingres.COM> garrett@Ingres.COM (IF YOU CANNOT CONVINCE THEM, CONFUSE THEM) writes:
><>	And when the press finally admits that Baird commited
><>	a FELONY, they brush it under the rug with a mumbled
><>	comment such as,"Oh, well, everyone's doing it".
><>	No, not everyone is evading Federal FICA taxes....sorry
><>	about that, media drones.
> 
><I won't argue with you there (suprise?). But they covered it. 
> 
>	Not at first; the story broke VERRRRRy slowly.

What are you talking about? It broke before her hearings started.
Sounds like perfect timing to me. Oh, but then it's not when it 
concerns Bush.

><They are not in the business to "call" for anything (unless
><it's on the editorial page). Because they are not being cheerleaders, or
><prosecutors, that is not a weakness, that is a strength. 
>	
>	Not cheerleaders? Hogwash!
>	The "free and unbiased media" were cheerleaders for
>	Clinton before he was nominated.

How short some people's memoiries are. Perhaps you don't remember the press
frying Clinton over a hot fire back during the primaries. You also seem
to have forgotten that the press did the same thing to Carter. Even the
Republicans don't deny that.
	As for the media being "cheerleaders", they were once not long
ago. But it was in favor of Bush. During the Gulf War the mass media became
a propoganda machine.
>	
>	They magnified all of Bush's warts,

You mean like his involvement in the Iran-Contra affiar. The involvement that
the Republicans have denied for years and years, but is now turning out to
be true (from Bush's own diary). I don't see the press calling for Bush's
hide even though HE is a felon.

>	...and now
>	they are trying mightily to shrink Clinton's problems
>	out of sight.

Unfortunantly, this is true. But then it's true for every new president,
including Reagan and Bush. At least for the first 100 days.
> 
><Then they are  self-censoring. 
> 
>	The media is constantly self-censoring, almost always
>	in one direction.

You're right there. They self-censor stories that might disturb whomever
is in power at the time. For the last 12 years that means Republicans.
> 
>	Piffle. My gripe is with the constant slant, the overt
>	lies repeated as "fact" AND the 'spike'.

You mean like greed is good?
> 
>	All 3 will be used to whitewash the Clintoon administration...
>	for quite some time.

Would you like to put money on it. I bet after the first year the coverage
isn't any different than Bush's coverage.

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