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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (21837)12/28/2003 7:05:11 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 793575
 
If you announce on air, Country X just had an election and Candidate Y just won overwhelming re-election, the assumption is that a real election happened.

The American public can be amazingly stupid and ignorant. I still shake my head over the polls that reported that more than half of the public thought that there were Iraqis in the 9/11 planes. We are notoriously ignorant about geography. So it's reasonable to assume that at least some people who heard that broadcast thought that Saddam had won a real election. I imagine that the news folk are quite aware of the pockets of ignorance in their audience. The challenge for them is what level of sophistication to expect from their audiences and how much background information to provide. Perhaps they don't always do the best job of that.

If you want to frame the problem with this particular broadcast as a judgment error regarding the sophistication of their audience, I take your point.

But that's not what was presented. It was presented as a classic example of bias to the point of supporting the propaganda of the enemy. I don't conclude bias from it. I don't see how a reasonable person could. Suspect, maybe, but conclude, absolutely not. There are other reasonable explanations, better explanations, such as the one above.
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