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

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (262134)	6/8/2002 5:14:03 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You make a great point and it is something that has long troubled me and that is the divergent interest of major media to "inform" and yet "entertain". They selectively attempt to wear both hats subject to the disscussion at hand. For example, when you look at what leads the nightly news, espcially local news, ask yourself, "Is THAT the most important thing going on in the world today"? We get car chases, explosions, sex scandals, etc. Yet when you call the media on it they say, "Well, we are in the entertainment business". And conversely when looking to investigate corruption, access to warzones, etc, NOW they are serious news. "The People's Conduit to The Truth", Protectors of Freedom. Well, which is it? Additionally, while I'm not surprised, it is interesting to note the "Civil Liberatarions" silence on the issues that Bernard Goldberg raised in his book "Bias". If what he says IS TRUE, and I believe it is, what we have is major media flacking for 1 political ideology over another. Enhancing one, and oppressing the other. Because I approach public policy issues fromn a conservative viewpoint the problem of bias is of course more acute as it is my views being distorted. A liberal thinker, in agreement with the underlying philosiphy thinks everything is just hunky doory. The bottomline is though, that the general public is MISinformed and this leads to MISguided, polldriven policy.