RE: [WAR]: not about WMD

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 14:16:27 MDT

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    --- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
    > Mike Lorrey wrote,
    > >
    > > Terry Colvin posted MRC's report card on media coverage of the war
    > > right on this list. Fox scored best with a B+. ABC had a D+.
    >
    > The Media Research Center is not a neutral source. It is a
    > conservative
    > group established specifically for, in their own words, "Documenting,
    > Exposing and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias." They are against
    > objective news reporting, and praised FOX news for "rejecting the
    > standard liberal idea that objective war news requires an
    > indifference to whether America succeeds or fails."
    >
    > Read that last line again! They reject the idea that objectivity
    > requires the news reporter to be indifferent to the story being
    > reported.

    Actually what you said and they said are two entirely different things,
    but generally get conflated by lefties.

    A reporters job is to report the facts. It is not to present all sides
    or opinions of an issue as equally valid. If the facts demonstrate that
    one side or opinion is stupid, wrong, ludicrous, foolish, false,
    fraudulent, etc. it may be left to the consumer to reach that
    conclusion or a reporter may engage in analysis if it is labeled as
    such.

    Lefties in the media think that objectivity demands that they always
    present the anti-American view as more valid than the pro-American
    view. That they present anti-American propaganda as factual reportage
    and pro-American as inherently flawed, biased, and subject to criticism
    and mockery.

    We now know that left wing media like CNN deliberately skewed their
    reportage in exchange for access. We also now know that mideastern
    media outlets were paid cash by Saddam for positive spin. While Fox was
    reporting accurately the American advance into Bagdad, less than 1/4
    mile from the Information Ministry, al Jazeera TV was reporting the
    claims of the Info Minister as fact.

    We see that self confessed liberal cheerleaders in the network media
    like Peter Jennings and Dan Rather were reporting falsehoods
    specifically because they put more credence in biased foreign sources
    than in embedded American sources. They repeatedly presented a picture
    of Iraqi liberation as more difficult than it was, with more opposition
    than there was, and with more resistance from civilians than there was.
    They continue to refuse to cover the high degree of civilian support
    for American liberators that continues to this day, so much so that
    locals involved in the formation of a new government are more
    pro-American than Iraqi exiles.

    > They deliberately choose the news that they want to report based
    > on how it makes America appear. They praise FOX for "correctly"
    > (their words) portraying U.S. military efforts as successful, while
    > blasting ABC when it "indulged anti-war protesters with free war
    > time."

    ABC went further than that, it claimed that the protesters represented
    the majority grassroots sentiment in the US, when reality was the exact
    opposite. They claimed that protests attracted more protesters than
    there actually were, and they reported all violent clashes with police
    as caused by law enforcement, when the fact is that the same
    provocateurs in the anarchist movement we've been documenting here in
    the luddite movement were also involved in assaulting police from
    behind march lines..

    >
    > Their grading system is directly proportional to how well a news
    > agencies sticks to the party line and refrains from presenting
    > dissenting
    > viewpoints. This kind of government-controlled media scares me,
    > no matter whose favorite political party is in power.

    I wasn't aware that MRC or FOX were government controlled in any way.
    Citations, please?

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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