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To: ThirdEye who wrote (64036)	1/1/2003 10:59:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You either aren't paying attention or you can't be serious if you think the mainstream media, including the corporate-owned networks, have been doing anything but treating Bush et al with kid gloves ever since 9/11. Keep one thing in mind, they all want eyeballs, so the "news" is clipped,packaged, polished up a bit, sanitized. They also have to preserve their access, so they can't step too hard on anyone's shoes. No, we're not kidding, and we have been paying attention. But I agree with you - in part. The major news outlets do need to preserve access and are not going to run around goring corporate oxen, so they do pull their punches. But this doesn't stop their attitudes and political assumptions from being solidly Democratic. Hardly surprising when 90% of the reporters and editors report that they vote Democratic themselves. They don't have to intend a slant, they just have to bring their own attitudes to the job. These attitudes mostly reflect what I think of as "Upper West Side [of Manhattan] Liberalism". And sometimes there is a deliberate slant. Howell Raines has been trying to use the news pages of the New York Times as an instrument of Democratic opposition to the war on Iraq, and has more or less said that he considers acting as a "principled opposition" to be part of his job as editor of the NY Times. How you react to this depends on your POV. If you are to the left of the Democratic mainstream, then you think that the Democrats and Republicans are all corporate stooges together. If you are to the right of the Democratic mainstream, then the unspoken assumption of most of the media that conservatives are evil people who hold their views from greed and meanness, no principles could possibly be involved, is enough to drive you batty. Does this make sense to you?