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2005-05-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-22 18:21|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thats such an easy question! Wait a minute... its a trick question right? I won't hold it against you if you have a college degree pasted to your wall. The answer mein fruend ist the colour of money! Thats what side they are on! Always has been, always will!

Posted by Spomolet Chick1592 2005-05-22 18:30|| 2005-05-22 18:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The reality is that the primary market for global MSM brands is outside the USA and the West and they are progressively tailoring their news to fit the prejudices of those markets.

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-22 18:32|| 2005-05-22 18:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Right on the money Phil_B!!! They tailor the suit to fit the customer! Thats what it is all about... the colour of money! The customer is always right... and if they are off a bit, then manipulate their taste until they bite and buy... the colour of money...

Posted by Spomolet Chick1592 2005-05-22 18:35|| 2005-05-22 18:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Then why wouldn't they do that in the USA? Or are they tailoring to only their residential states where, presumably, their views are accepted as accurate and informed?

Newsweak, during the first Gulf War, was head and shoulders over Time and U.S. News and World Report, just as CNN had it all over the networks, even with Peter Arnett in Baghdad. Looking back at the articles, though, they were for the most part straight news from both, while the competition went with their standardized "interpretation." Newsweak's come over to the dark side in that respect, just as has CNN.

By this point, as most readers of Rantburg will notice, I don't read the weekly news mags anymore. I go to the source, which is the local papers when I can find them and they're comprehensible, and then to the wire services, which for all their faults still present a majority of articles based on fact, rather than opinion.

Japanese Newsweek is prepared by a Japanese staff, and there aren't many Americans who're fluent enough in Japanese maintain tight editorial control. The staff, I'd guess, reflects the Japanese educational system, just as American Newsweek reflects the American system. The article would seem to point up the weaknesses of both.

Posted by Fred">Fred 2005-05-22 18:52|| 2005-05-22 18:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder what the prospect is for government and military officials to leak false stories to gulible news reporters in order to discredit them.

Posted by Soaz 2005-05-22 18:58|| 2005-05-22 18:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Unnecessary, Soaz - the media don't need any help to discredit themselves.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-05-22 21:55|| 2005-05-22 21:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Which Side is Newsweek On?

Gee, that's a tough one. Hmmm ... OK, my answer is "Who are the Islamofascists?"

Posted by DMFD 2005-05-22 23:07|| 2005-05-22 23:07|| Front Page Top

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