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To: Ron who wrote (101010)	6/10/2003 8:27:36 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's a point of view that is a small minority in the U.S., and a solid majority among the other 96% of mankind. So, expect to be ridiculed, whenever you present it.

To: Ron who wrote (101010)	6/10/2003 9:14:04 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

A Fox TV anchor, one Neil Cavuto, celebrated the fall of Baghdad by informing all of us who opposed the war in March, "You were sickening then, you are sickening now." If reports are accurate, these troubled men are neither bad journalists nor even bad actors portraying journalists--they're mentally unbalanced individuals whose partisan belligerence is pressing them to the brink of psychosis. Considering that Neil Cavuto was making an editorial (I seem to recall seeing this snippet) at the end of his show and explicitly during a section in which he REGULARLY expresses his opinion, I hardly believe this writer correctly used this as an example. Personally speaking, I don't mind if journalists make PERSONAL statements that express their personal OPINION, so long as it is openly acknowledged as being THEIR opinion. It's when journalists attempt to report on a topic from a particular bias.. IOW, they try to play "analyst", but forget the primary rule of analysis.. Any subject must be viewed a wide variety of perspectives and the most relevant to the facts at hand can be emphasized, so long as the other alternative views are expressed as well and not submerged. I don't expect FoxNews to be hosted by unbiased anchors. What I DO EXPECT is that they provide equal time to opposing, and/or alternative viewpoints.. This is something I believe that Fox has done rather well. That is, when liberals have the guts to show up and vocalize their "pie in the sky" perspectives. After all, I'm still waiting for the liberals out here to provide us an alternative, and logically viable, course of action with regard to how Iraq should have been handled. Hawk