From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 17:50:17 MDT
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> spike66 wrote,
> > Far more than in the past, the current Arab conflict is
> > an information war. Politicians are not so much struggling
> > with each other as news media are struggling with each other.
> > The most dramatic losers so far: Minister of Information [sic]
> > Muhammad Said al Sahhaf, who will be quoted for comic relief
> > for the foreseeable future, pretty much all of the Arab press
> > whose credibility will take years to recover, and CNN.
> >
> > Winners: FoxNews, who got it pretty much right.
>
> What exactly are you talking about? Do you think CNN reported more
> false
> propaganda than FoxNews? Or is it just that they refrained from
> pro-American rhetoric and opinionated editorials that predicted the
> outcome?
> Is there some specific factual examples that I missed where CNN got
> it wrong
> and FoxNews got it right?
>
> Seriously, I only noticed opinion, editorial, and attitudinal
> differences
> between CNN and Fox. I don't recall any major factual or objective
> differences in the news that was reported.
That is because as a slightly left of center individual, you looked at
CNN, a slightly left of center media outlet, as broadcasting 'facts'
presented with a semantic flavoring that is consistent with your own
bias, while that broadcast of Fox was so obviously 'editorialized'
specifically because its semantic presentation did not match what you
were prepared to receive.
What is important is that the predictions made on Fox were so accurate
because the Fox people had the most accurate impression and
interpretation of the facts to base their predictions on. CNN was less
accurate because it colored its predictions with its own editorial
outlook on the facts. Being a less accurate interpretation of reality,
CNN was fated to be less accurate in its predictions of future events.
As an Egyptian said last week: "Now nobody believes al Jazeera."
=====
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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