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To: JohnM who wrote (30477)	5/23/2002 12:59:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I find it ironic that Bennett, Kirkpatrick, and whomsoeve make their comments, absent any serious discussion of the settlements issue and call it "fair and balanced" in roughly the same time frame as the campaign against the LATimes, NYTimes, CNN, etc. is brought to public notice in the NYTimes today. This 'irony' will only go so far, as the B&K&K piece was an op-ed. Nobody has objected to op-eds having strong political POVs (btw, I don't understand the distinction you're trying to make between 'political' and 'ideological'; the fight doesn't seem to boil down to a standard Democratic/GOP political fight, however you slice it). The objection is to news coverage that purports to be objective having strong political POVs, in effect editorializing and over-analysing the news all over the news section. Do you have a link to the NY Times story? I don't see it on their site. As for this op-ed not really being "fair and balanced", fair enough, but anyone who is trying to correct a perceived news coverage imbalance in an op-ed is going to spend the words making their own points much more than repeating the other side's points, surely. Sometimes I think the boycott is an attempt to dumb down all newspapers to the level of the NYPost and the Washington Times. I'm dangerously close to getting the impression that 'dumb' and 'conservative' are synonyms in your world view, John.