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To: The Philosopher who wrote (46270)	7/21/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Jesus, Christopher. Are you pig-headed on principle? <g> Let's run through this again. Let me stress I am giving only a HYPOTHETICAL example. Mr. X says (for example): I am opposed 100% to abortion. My views are not given a hearing in the mainstream press. Ms. Y reads the mainstream press. She sees there zillions of articles about people who are opposed 100% to abortion, and relatively few about those who are "for" it. Is she wrong to conclude that Mr. X's views on this subject are overrepresented, rather than underrepresented? Edit: I did not say that I thought conservative views are, in general, overrepresented. I was not making a value judgment at all. What I intended to say was just this: Mr. X. has a number of views, including view Z. He claims they are all underrepresented in the mainstream press. In the case of view Z, he is wrong. View Z, in fact, gets tons of coverage.