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To: JohnM who wrote (35257)7/29/2002 2:36:11 PM
From: paul_philp  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
John,


I prefer folks committed to getting the story right.


I think it appears to you this way because you align to some degree with the stories that get covered. There are often times when the NYT and the WP seem to me to be making the news in order to be politcally instrumental. I can see it because I usually disagree with thier POV. I suspect the same is true when you read the washington times.

You seem to be implying that only rightie people would consider practising political instrumentality. Are you suggesting that leftie people in the media operate at a morally higher level? This would become a self-confirming opinion if help very long.

Paul



To: JohnM who wrote (35257)7/31/2002 1:45:48 AM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 281500
 
Unfortunately John, that often means "getting the political angle that agrees with how I see the world right."

The result is the same. The difference is between being explicit in one's political agenda, and presenting a fair and balanced debate; and presenting one's own implicit politics as facts, and denying there is any politics at all.

Derek


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