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To: TigerPaw who wrote (20332)	6/7/2000 9:58:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Then I guess people don't want to hear liberal propaganda: Message 13838109 Any good salesman knows the technique, tell people what they want to hear and they will stick around for the sales pitch.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (20332)	6/7/2000 10:09:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769667

>>If at that point you think there is a conspiracy to slant the news, it is because your views did not represent a large enough audience to cater. No one says it's a conspiracy. But when all the gatekeepers share the same narrow Liberal outlook, it's bound to affect the product. All available research, and reality, rebuts your casuistry.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (20332)	6/7/2000 10:15:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually, papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have long been aimed at an elite and affluent audience, which is why advertisers pay. The true mass circulation papers in New York, the Post and the News, are conservative. However, they are not as influential as the Times. In Washington, the old Star was conservative. It is true that it folded a long while back, but that was mainly due to the fact that most people read sports and features more than news, and the Post had beaten them on sports coverage and the acquisition of comics. The networks take their news agenda from the Washington Post and the New York Times, which are, despite bias, the best papers in the country, with the most money devoted to bureaus. The main network news bureaus are in Washington and New York, and those papers are what college educated professionals usually read. BTW, the Rothman- Lichter study found that the bias was not spread throughout the news industry, but concentrated in the major outlets: the elite papers, the networks, and the newsmagazines. Many "local" papers are moderate to conservative.........