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To: TigerPaw who wrote (20334)	6/7/2000 10:00:00 AM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

TP, You equate a majority of TV viewers with a majority of citizens. Faulty logic. Nobody claimed that "Big Brother" controlled all the news outlets. Setting up a straw man. Your tactics have not changed.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (20334)	6/7/2000 10:18:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>If your views were the majority, then the majority would switch to a more conservative news source. They haven't, and it's not because big brother is contolling all the news outlets. They reality is that they haven't been offered. Brut Hume was demoted from covering the Clinton WH because he dared to asked Clinton some probing questions. I believe it was reported that this was done at WH request - something unthinkable if there was a GOP administration. Hume has gone on to FoxNews, whose motto is "Always fair and balanced, you decide". Hume's show is now leading his cable competition despite the fact that only 47 million homes get FoxNews.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (20334)	6/7/2000 12:08:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Wrong grasshopper. What I would prefer in a newscast is FACTS. Not spin, not attack journalism, just the facts. The facts aren't liberal or conservative. JLA

To: TigerPaw who wrote (20334)	6/14/2000 10:20:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

New study, people are tuning out Liberal network news and when they watch they don't believe what they report most of the time because of the networks' profound liberal bias: ...About 33 percent of viewers now get their news from CNBC (for investors), MSNBC (for the young and the Netty) or the Fox News Cable Channel (for relief from the network news' rote liberal bias).... ...By contrast, network news offers more and more junk. The decline of the tube isn't just about the rise of the Net; it is also about the decline of the tube. Americans dropped the habit of watching TV news as TV gave up any serious effort to report the news, with the networks largely shutting down their national and international reporting operations to present faux newscasts cobbled together from live-disaster coverage, bits of rip and read and second-tier stories copied from that morning's New York Times. And what news there is isn't trusted. Pew reports that only one-third of adults say they believe most of what they see on ABC, CBS and NBC. With their chronic sensationalism and their chronic ideological bias, the network news divisions have forfeited trust.... washingtonpost.com