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2005-10-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Sobriety Lost : How our newspapers create opinion and report it

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-03 07:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No argument with the point of the column, but a petty point about one so-called fact. In at least the most publicized case of people shooting at rescue helicopters it turns out there were two gangs of 'people' shooting at each other, and when the helicopter came near them the helicopter crew thought the shooting was directed at them.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-10-03 13:00|| 2005-10-03 13:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Heir to the House of Brokaw, NBCâs Brian Williams was asked about his networks coverage of the Katrina disaster. He told the Washington Post: âWe were witnesses, so we drove the storyâ. Itâs easy to dismiss his self-congratulatory statement as mere arrogance. But it may shed some insight into what passes for contemporary journalism. Perhaps the âweâ in Williamsâ statement refers not exclusively to the self-important media but their gullible consumers as well. There is no doubt that advocacy journalism continues to be rampant regarding Katrina. But is shaping opinions really the end game for the media heavy weights? Or is blatant political bias merely a symptom of a fractured institution?

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-10-03 19:48|| 2005-10-03 19:48|| Front Page Top

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