From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 02:37:25 MDT
Mike Lorrey,
[gts wrote:]
>> The networks are perfectly free to decide which broadcast news
>> segments will appear on their websites.
>
> Horse pucky. How many debates have we gotten into here where
> one side or the other takes the opinion that if it isn't
> documented online or other print form then it never happened
> and/or the person claiming so is wrong/lying/bsing??? LOTS.
If people here took that position then they were wrong. There is absolutely
no reason any news network should be obligated to post every single
televised word on its website.
News networks did not even have websites until a few years ago. Are you
suggesting that no argument about what transpired in the media could be
resolved until the advent of the internet?
I see from another message that you were able to find the transcript that
you were looking for, so your accusation of "rewriting history" is not valid
anyway.
Probably the law requires that all television networks keep an unpublished
archive of video tapes and/or transcripts of all broadcasts for X number of
months, in case there should ever be any need for them in any legal
investigation. That is all that should be required of them. Websites are
separate publications.
As for the charge of fraud, it looks like the CNN reporter was saying one
thing about the physical effects of assault weapons while LaPierre of the
NRA was saying another. Speaking as one who has never examined closely the
effects of assault weapons on bullet-proof vests or other materials, I can't
say who is right. I would not charge "fraud" without better evidence than
the opinion of someone like LaPierre of the NRA who obviously has a
political motive, nor would I dismiss the charge based only on the opinion
of the CNN reporter who seems also to have had a political motive.
In other words, while I don't doubt that CNN presented a biased view of
assault weapons, I think your charges of "fraud" and "rewriting history" are
both a bit over the top.
-gts
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