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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arno who wrote (4894)	11/30/2001 12:16:32 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

I'm glad I don't have Rumsfeld's job. I would have been sorely tempted to say: "600 violent P'sOS just died and will no longer cause America or the world any trouble. I think that's a good thing -- no, that's a GREAT thing -- for the America and for the world. I frankly don't care how they died, I'm just glad they're dead. Next question."

To: arno who wrote (4894)	11/30/2001 2:07:29 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

The sad thing about today's media is that the media itself, by its very nature, is what is causing the problem. The only way a reporter makes it today is by getting publicity or media attention him/herself - particularly the television types. The way they do that is outshouting their colleagues or asking outrageous questions that stump the people they're questioning. Everyone wants the recognition and attention that Geraldo gets. One of the biggest casualties of the process is often the truth. Most reporters don't write their own stories. They call it in to their editors who write the story. The exceptions are those that have bylines - but those stories are also edited to follow the "style guides" that all newspapers and magazines have. Most of the time you see the names of the reporters at the end of the story as "having contributed." If you want a liberal slant, listen to Jennings, Brokaw, Rather. Conservative? Fox News. Liberal? LA Times. Conservative? WSJ. Have you ever played that game "telephone" around a table when you were a kid? Someone starts with a simple story and whispers it to the person next to them and so on down the line. By the time the last person hears the story, it's changed quite a bit. I come from a family with newspaper people in it. 2 liberals, 2 conservatives. The discussions of how the news should be presented was very interesting. Each side had valid reasons for the decisions they made on big stories. As an example, the truth was told but there was a definite slant put to the story. It mostly involved what was left in the story and what was left out. The discussions at the dinner table were always fascinating when I was growing up because we got to hear about the stuff that went on behind the scenes - the stuff that didn't make the paper.