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To: Lane3 who wrote (116939)	5/30/2005 1:14:42 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793613

Of more interest, IMO, is why no one else puts the question [of American interests] to them that way. You mentioned that Rose failed to. I wonder what other opportunities were lost. Did no one on Fox ask them, either? I would be very interested in hearing the the answer to that question were it asked. This gets to the cocooned groupthink nature of MSM, or as Captain Ed calls them, Exempt Media, because the exempt themselves from having to answer the questions they demand of others. Charlie Rose never asked Michael Isikoff the question because they are both inhabitants of Smartland and it didn't occur to them to ask it. Likewise, the question doesn't occur in most newsrooms because all the inhabitants share the operating assumptions, and caring about American interests isn't one of them. In fact, they take it as a point of pride not to care (being an American patriot is not so popular on the international journalist circuit, I think). They tell themselves that an assumption of uninterested neutrality is necessary for journalism (an assumption that doesn't exactly seem to color their reporting of say, Presidential contests or police blotters). I don't watch enough of Fox to answer your question; but I would expect Fox to ask the question. The question that occurs to me is, does the MSM as a whole have any clue of the gulf that exists between them and most of their viewers? If not, how low will ratings have to go to give them a clue?