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To: Road Walker who wrote (257653)	10/31/2005 11:57:38 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577150

I listen to either Rush or Democracy Now! on my drive home for lunch... pretty compelling stuff regardless of what you agree with or don't agree with. At least they are exploring and interpreting the news, getting in depth. When I get home I flip on CNN, and the contrast is dramatic. It's like news by press release. Completely sanitized so as not to offend anyone. Just perfect hair and smiley faces... and that's where most people get their news, assuming they get any at all. I am surprised by the first paragraph...neither rush nor dn are "news"... i am not surprised that CNN sounds clinical...i think that's what news is supposed to be....otherwise you have fox... Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (257653)	10/31/2005 1:04:57 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577150

I listen to either Rush or Democracy Now! on my drive home for lunch... pretty compelling stuff regardless of what you agree with or don't agree with. At least they are exploring and interpreting the news, getting in depth. When I get home I flip on CNN, and the contrast is dramatic. It's like news by press release. Completely sanitized so as not to offend anyone. Just perfect hair and smiley faces... and that's where most people get their news, assuming they get any at all. I think they lost their nerve. Encouraged by the WH, it looked like 9/11 put an exclamation mark on everything Clinton had done and made it all wrong. Remember back then how everything Clinton was trashed. I think the press felt like they had been mislead; that Clinton WAS trash/incompetent and 9/11 was the result of his incompetence. Of course, that was very far from the truth but they still went along with the concept. Coinciding with that message was the one where you were a patriot only if you supported Bush and his cronies 100%. So the press fell in line. I think they were also unnerved by the gains Fox News, the mouthpiece of the WH, was making. That's not how its supposed to be. The press is supposed to be a beacon........they are supposed to keep shining even when a majority of Americans believe the other way. Instead they went mute. As a consequence, they helped Bush get re-elected. It shouldn't have happened. He was as incompetent then as he is now........but his incompetence went unexposed. The press had the power to do it......they knew he was incompetent......instead they kept their mouths shut. Only the Brits and the Canadians kept hammering at the flaws they saw. I really hope the American press has learned its lesson. ted