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Originally posted by Bingo@Nov 9 2004, 07:29 PM
The New York Times and LA Times have opinion writers, and as you say, they should be excluded just like the TV guys. They have opinions.
You can't make an opinion fact, but an opinion can stand.
The way both papers cover the news, however, has been under attack as left leaning. The recent timing of the explosives story from Iraq was a classic example. They sat on it until a week before the election, and then ran it as fact when it turned out they knew very little.
That's news coverage with an angle, a far cry from freedom of commentary.
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Okay, I get it. The RW media doesn't really count because they are passing opinions. Gotcha. And we know that in America opinions mean nothing, which completely explains FoxNews and guys like Limbaugh doing so well on the airwaves. You may not understand this because it is not this way in Canada, but Op-Eds and the confrontation style have taken over the news. Those that write Op-Eds have a very large impact on the way people think. These folks are quickly becoming the media elite. People don't care what Dan Rather or Peter Jennings has to say any more. They just read the news. But people care what Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, Sean Hannity, etc. have to say. These are the guys that people talk about around the water cooler. The spin these guys put on the news is what matters. Welcome to the new media, created and financed by the elite right.
The greatest trick the devil ever played on humanity was getting people to believe he didn't exist. The greatest trick the media right ever played on society was getting people to believe that it didn't exist. The media right steers the direction people think in America and has been for a good long time. The more they wave their hands in the air and whine about the "media elite liberals" the more room they have to ply their trade undetected. Its nice to see that it still works.