I admit, I don’t have cable. I’m not a Luddite, but just don’t need it. Once while traveling through BWI, I looked up to the ubiquitous television monitors, which were broadcasting a live press conference by the head of the World Health Organization. The amount of scrawl and moving images superimposed on the presser triggered in my head the thought ‘wow, this must be something very important.’ After watching it for a little while, I realized that I had been suckered…
The passing of Walter Cronkite on July 17th, 2009, brought about the predictable laments of modern day news organizations. Mark Bowden’s piece in the October 2009 Atlantic must be one of the finest explanations of the shift that is occurring within most American newsrooms. He uses the Sotomayer coverage as an example of the propagandizing of modern day news media. Read his full article HERE.
The passing of Walter Cronkite on July 17th, 2009, brought about the predictable laments of modern day news organizations. Mark Bowden’s piece in the October 2009 Atlantic must be one of the finest explanations of the shift that is occurring within most American newsrooms. He uses the Sotomayer coverage as an example of the propagandizing of modern day news media. Read his full article HERE.
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Penn Jillette had some comments about the news that stuck with me. He said that most articles appear to be informative and accurate. But if an article is about you, or something you know well, it is full of errors and misrepresentation.
He suggests that the bias has always been there, it's just not fashionable to admit it. "Why not get on television and say, 'I'm Bill Davis, I hate George Bush, and here's the news...'?"
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