From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 11:47:54 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote,
> --- Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com> wrote:
> > BTW, I also visited Media Research Center's report on media coverage
> > at http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2003/warnews1.
asp, ut
> > apparently missed the sections where they did comparable analysis
to
> > FAIR (all I saw was a bunch of opinions and anecdotal evidence).
>
> 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.
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."
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.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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