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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Oct 18 2004, 07:27 PM
The problem with Crossfire, and shows like it, is the pursuit of talking points. That's what they want to do. Get people to focus on the talking points and make talking points become fact rather than the actual events or issues. David Brock's "The Republican Noise Machine" is a great book that cuts right to the bone of how media is manipulated into participating in the manufacture of news. For anyone (Transplant99 immediately jumps to mind) who does not believe that the government controls what we think should read this book. It will forever make you question what you see, read and hear from the mainstream media.
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Crossfire is entertainment - and bad entertainment at that - and has little to do with the news you hear on a nightly basis.
In any event, as one can plainly see from the comments by Steve Begala in the CNN Transcript, he was using Democrat talking points and was given equal weight. And they had a plainly Democrat favouring Jon Stewart on the show.
"The Republican Noise Machine" by David Brock
Is there any particular reason that every book you present here comes from the far left side of the spectrum?
Has someone got control of your head there bub?
Why not offer us the counter-argument for balance, an expose of how the liberal media is controlled in America?:
Think the media are biased? CONSERVATIVES HAVE BEEN crying foul for years, but now a veteran CBS reporter has come forward to expose how liberal bias pervades the mainstream media. Even if you've suspected your nightly news is slanted to the left, it's far worse than you think. Breaking ranks and naming names, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion, and "entertainment" trumps hard news every time. In his three decades at CBS, Goldberg repeatedly voiced his concerns to network executives about the often one-sided nature of the news coverage. But no one listened to his complaints-or if they did listen, they did nothing about the problem. Finally, Goldberg had no choice but to blow the whistle on his own industry, to break the code of silence that pervades the news business. Bias is the result. As the author reveals, "liberal bias" doesn't mean simply being hard on Republicans and easy on Democrats. Real media bias is the result of how those in the media see the world-and their bias directly affects how we all see the world.
Sound familiar?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...341458?v=glance
Both sides accuse the other of control, which in fact is an attempt to control in itself.
This looks interesting: "How to identify media bias."
http://www.mrc.org/books/identifybias.asp
Cowperson