RE: [Iraq] More enthusiasm than news in Fox's coverage of war

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 19:17:28 MST

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    --- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > John K Clark wrote:
    >
    > > Fox makes it quite clear that they hope the American side
    > > wins, but at least they put all their cards on the table.
    > > Would you rather have a network that pretended to be neutral
    > > but really was not
    >
    > But that is exactly what FOX does! It's billed as neutral when it is
    > not. "News without the spin," they say.

    Untrue. FOX presents itself as presenting both (or more) sides of an
    issue, which is markedly different than, say, exclusively the Dan
    Rather side of every issue only. FOX openly states when it is
    editorializing. Mainstream media like Dan Rather editorialize in every
    word and phrase yet call it journalism.

    >
    > > Then you really do want distorted information, war [is] full of
    > > pizzazz and excitement and heated emotions.
    >
    > I'm referring to the journalism itself, not to the events reported.
    >
    > Example:
    >
    > Yesterday 3/28 Neil Cavuto responded on the air to a professor who
    > had complained (correctly, imo) that Neil Cavuto "wears his bias
    > on his sleeve."

    At least Cavuto does not deny that he has a bias. People like the
    professor claim to be unbiased because they cannot concieve that
    anything but their own position can have any credibility. I watched the
    below referenced program and I gotta say, based on the letter the
    professor wrote to Cavuto, Neil's response was entirely warranted. I
    know professors like that, and I'll bet that since Neil said the prof
    was from an Ivy League college that he works about 4 miles up the road
    from me.

    These are professors like that Columbia University Professor who said
    yesterday that we need more Mogadishu-like massacres of US soldiers.
    Such bias is quite evident. Imagine, instead, if the CU professor had
    said something like "What we need is more lynchings of these black
    civil rights advocates." That guy would be fired within an hour.
    Instead, we've got the CU president using intellectual freedom as a
    cover.

    I'll note here that you don't seem to be quoting anything the professor
    said in his letter to Cavuto. Such is evidence of bias.

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    Mike Lorrey
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