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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (19956)	5/2/2004 10:24:01 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

Zell Miller may have Alzheimers as he's apparently forgotten the past 45 years of history.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (19956)	5/3/2004 12:35:32 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 81568

Veteran newsman raps journalists...NPR's Daniel Schorr also calls Iraq war 'totally unnecessary' ____________________ Saturday, 1, 2004 By Olga Bonfiglio Special to the Gazette mlive.com Journalism's job is to keep people informed and to make sense of the world, said Daniel Schorr, 87-year-old news veteran and current senior news analyst for National Public Radio. But self-interest has replaced truth and the media is focused on the mundane, Schorr told 500 people -- twice the number expected -- who were on hand to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kalamazoo County Trial Lawyers Association held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel on Friday. "I am very distressed about my profession," he said. Schorr said journalism has been reduced to a camera focused on a spokesperson with "enormous opportunities to manipulate the media." But what often gets left out is the public's need to know. "There is competition between the press and those who don't want a job done well," he said referring to the secrecy and public relations approach of government officials. Providing news on the cheap is another trend in the media. They "spend as little as [they] can and raise [their] ratings as much as [they] can. It's not journalism as I knew journalism!" Schorr said the country is building up to a "tremendous controversy" over the war in Iraq. "When it comes out in the end, as it is bound to come out, we will see that Bush took this country into a totally unnecessary war," he said. Schorr admitted that public reaction to Sept. 11 has frightened people to the extent that they disregard violations of civil rights and civil liberties. But he warned the audience to "go on fighting for those rights or we'll lose them." And for those who disagree with the Bush administration, he advised them to "take a sign out in public and let him know. That's the way it's always been done." Schorr has covered government controversies since the McCarthy hearings in 1953 as well as the superpower summits of the Cold War. He recently published a memoir, "Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism," on his six decades as a journalist. Michigan State Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly introduced Schorr as an "uncompromising purveyor of the truth."