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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (48510)	10/18/2000 6:16:58 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>>Recruitment, for one thing. For example, newspapers like the Washington Post commonly go out of their way to participate in job fairs sponsored by black journalistic associations.<<< Hmmm. Your above comment triggered my memory regarding the so-called Liberal Media. Back in the early 90's I was co-directing a conference at the Harvard Law School relative to America's failed drug policy. The week before my conference was scheduled there was an event held at Harvard's JFK School of Government, Center for Journalistic Studies whereby the first Goldsmith Award for Investigative Journalism was presented. Given a backdrop of the entire ownership of America's media elite in attendance, I deemed this event a nice opportunity to draw focus to the conference I was organizing. Very well-dressed, they were all there. Owners and featured personalities of every major newspaper, television and radio station. Yup. Present were many of the famous names we see, hear and read about daily. Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post were the co-recipients of the award. After some background on Hewitt and Woodward there followed a question and answer session. I got up and stood in the microphone line, waiting my turn to ask a question relative to the drug war. As I stood awaiting my turn to speak, I looked around the room where Mrs. Edward R. Murrow was the esteemed guest of honor. Instantly, I was struck by a horrible and clearcut revelation. Among all of these wonderfully very elite folk, all of these important people most capable of influencing opinioin in America, within this supposedly liberally-biased media, only one minority person was present in a room of about 200 people. When I got to the microphone I bagged my drug related question and instead asked the sponsors to look around the room and note the absence of people of color. I instantly demanded they turn the tv cameras onto themselves and begin taking notes on themselves, that they were in need of investigative journalism: Why minorities own so little, if any, major media in this nation. So when Republicans moan and groan that America's media is liberally biased, I fervently disagree with the notion. Far and wide, throughout the liberal wing of the Democratic Party is the opinion of its minorities' representation; and yet nowhere greater is such a representation more absent than in the ownership of America's prominent media institutions. It's my view GOPwingers continually make the "liberally-biased media" charge so as to bait the media into providing better and more extensive coverage to conservative causes and candidates. And from this, George W. Bush is not exempt.