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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18951)	2/16/2002 2:31:16 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, So, is Goldberg simply a shill, or what? Re: In fact, I learned much more about the atmosphere that breeds suicide bombers from one short article in Commentary magazine than I have from watching twenty years of network television news. Has it ever crossed his mind he needs a better grasp of reality? Like, seeing the impact of America's obsession with controlling the "game", deceptively saying we aren't really colonialists, and why they hate us. See: Message 17070330 it really doesn't take a genius to see why the youth of the world on MTV would ask Colin Powell why America is the great Satan of world politics. Powell had no relevant answer. He dissembled about the old America. Not the one that runs things now. He was silent about that. He didn't fool anyone. I think Goldberg is fighting a rear guard battle for the last generation, living in fear that their hypocrisies might be exposed to the light of day. Totally not connecting with the youth of this planet. Much like Powell. -R.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18951)	2/16/2002 8:32:53 AM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

HonestReporting.com or not, it's gonna be construed as biased because of its underpinnings. honestreporting.com My impression is that TV news is not biased so much as it's cleansed and bland. Their campaign to change things oughta be directed at convincing people to read and read critically. Trying to convince Jennings to be more than a pretty boy or convincing Rather to quit fooling around with stupid sign-off lines is a quixotic venture, imo.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18951)	2/16/2002 10:25:46 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Following is an excerpt from "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News" by Bernard Goldberg, published by Regnery Publishing, Inc. Chapter 14, "Connecting the Dots... to Terrorism." I take it I'm the beneficiary of this lovely tirade because you wish to make the point about media bias against Israel. Okay, you've done that. But Goldberg is definitely not a good source with which to establish it. I skimmed it in a Barnes & Noble coffee shop, my regular practice, to see about buying it or checking it out of the library. Decided it was a hatchet job. Here's why. He practices a very bad form of journalism which is to find some story that, once pulled from its context, will make his point. Then he generalizes it to make very large charges. In a great many of these cases, a fairly careful trip back to the origins of the story will reveal some very different plots; and, almost without question, the generalization reveals the careless personal or ideological bias. My take, John