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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Sully- who wrote (21805)12/27/2003 6:07:55 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793578
 
they delivered those
words very matter of factly.

Exactly. Don't you understand that that's what they're supposed to do? If they deviate from that, it's supposed to be very subtle, which it was. That's journalism 101. Haven't you ever seen a news reader report an earthquake or mass murder matter of factly? That's what they teach in J school. They call it professionalism. When Chronkite reported Kennedy's asassination he showed a bit of personal feeling about it. Anything short of that is supposed to be matter of fact.

there was no other context, like telling
viewers that voting for anyone besides Saddam was a death
sentence

There's no reason to say that. We know that Saddam got one hundred percent of the vote and why. They don't need to explain that every time any more than they need to tell us that Saddam is the head of state of Iraq or that Iraq is in the Middle East. Or that we're at war with Iraq. Or that George Bush is President of the US. It's a given. If they kept telling us that stuff, we'd be complaining that they're talking down to us. They already do too much of that IMO.

Let me rephrase that. I'll ask you. Do you really think that sort of thing needs to be explained with every news bit? If so, why?

If you're not buying my argument about the "he-saids," then why do you think she emphasized that? Was she just stuttering?
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