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To: Michael M who wrote (46299)	7/21/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

As I said, it was a hypothetical example. As for "ratings whores," see this post (section on "role of reporters"): Message 10603667 I was not talking about TV, by the way, just print journalism. jbe Edit: As for the "hypothetical example," do not forget that there are quite a number of professedly "conservative" media outlets. In print journalism, the most prominent example would be The Wall Street Journal.

To: Michael M who wrote (46299)	7/21/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Ratings whores, one and all. What happens to reporters whose ratings fall? When professional survival in the media - the terms of which are defined by the owners of media organizations - demands prostitution, you will see a lot of prostitutes in the media. If people didn't run out and buy magazines with Diana or JFK jr. on the cover, do you think the press would bother with them? If quality research and reasoned discourse drew mass adulation, don't you think we'd see more of it? We talk too much about how we are shaped by the media, and not enough about how we shape the media.

To: Michael M who wrote (46299)	7/21/1999 8:03:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You are so right about the over-coverage of the K Jr. story. Here we see all the conservative reporters and editors extolling their hero. Too bad there are no liberals in the media, since they would be obligated to point out, as you do, how much this was his fault. (No flight plan. Flying at night over water without instrument rating. Flying into apparent fog. Limited hours in a plane he wasn't yet familar with. Etc., etc.) When it comes right down to it, a magazine publisher killed himself and his wife and her sister. Now can we get on to some real news?