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Sun Nov-02-03 08:55 AM
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| Fair and Balanced coverage of the Heli crash |
| Dudley_DUright
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Sun Nov-02-03 08:58 AM
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| 1. At least the are covering it (sort of) |
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MSGOP, responding to the Rove memo on reporting only positive news from Iraq is now broadcasting a report on shark attacks on surfers (I kid you not).
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| tom_paine
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Sun Nov-02-03 08:58 AM
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| 2. I'd say they were gettin' mighty Soviet over at Faux, BUT |
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From their very first day of inception, their purpose was identical to Soviet Pravda or Goebbels' Nazi News Service (whatever they caled it--perhaps they also said it was "fehrunbalinst").
They just live in a place and time where they cannot be quite as ham-fisted.
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| LTR
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Sun Nov-02-03 02:52 PM
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| 3. Conventional news wisdom would say |
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Death leads injuries.
Mention of the two dead is made only as an afterthought, it seems.
Talk about sanitizing news.
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| LTR
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Sun Nov-02-03 03:02 PM
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| 4. Looks like they've all updated |
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All the major cable news outfits (and FOX) say 15 dead.
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