RE: Complaint about American Media (was IRAQ: Euro Multipolarity Shows Up)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 22:27:28 MST


Damien writes

> [Lee wrote]
> > But you can listen to radio all day long, tuning in to ABC News,
> > CBS News, or NBC news, and you'll hear none of this.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/30/1043804465550.html
>
> Europeans rally behind Bush
> January 31 2003
> By Peter Fray
> London, Karen DeYoung
> Washington
>
> A group of eight key European countries yesterday called for a united front
> against Saddam Hussein, boosting American diplomatic efforts to secure UN
> backing for war and further isolating France and Germany.

This is getting ridiculous. The American media appears utterly
silent about this. (Perhaps I should watch more television, and
get more news that just a five-minute summary on the hour.) Yes,
I know that buried somewhere within the pages of The New York
Times, the L.A. Times, or even the San Jose Mercury that story
will be found---but the selection bias is obvious.

I would like to know what prominence the above article got
in the Australian press.

> Well, you could always try the Aussie press.

All I want is an objective news summary, which I am evidently
not getting from the lead articles of the New York Times.
I hope you are serious. I hope that I could subscribe instead
to something more objective. But almost all American papers
merely parrot the content of the NYT.

I simply want not to be able to tell the ideology or opinions
of my news sources. Is that so impossible? IS THAT SO
IMPOSSIBLE?? Evidently the *only* summary sources at my
disposal come from those whose selection of stories show
an ideological bias from either one direction or the other.

It's very irritating.

Lee



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