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To: carranza2 who wrote (12408)	2/17/2006 11:03:00 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541353

There is no doubt that the mainstream media is incredibly biased. Except that you think it is biased left and I think it is biased right. Read Eric Alterman sometime for a convincing argument that the conventional view of a left-leaning Traditional Media is a myth.

To: carranza2 who wrote (12408)	2/17/2006 11:04:38 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541353

I think like many other, you are focussed on the wrong issue about the Cheney incident. I expect every leader to take responsibility for their own actions, more so from a constitutional officer which Cheney is and Libby and Rove are not. Like many of you, I witnessed the Cheney interview and heard directly from the source. I came away in the middle. He provided some good reasons on why he was slow to act by coming to explain himself to the world about the "horrible accident" mind you not a "horrible incident." What I didn't like about the whole issue is that he failed to display leadership and instead opted to play it out through the ranch owner and others. He should have taken the responsibility and spoken directly to the American public sooner. I live in California and I like what I see of the Governor of my state. His Propositions got defeated in the polls, he took the responsibility for the defeat, extended a olive branch to the Democrats (his opposition), hired the chief of staff of his former rival Governor out of his own free will (why won't he, after all he is married to a Kennedy) and we are moving on in California. And here you are splitting hairs and being a partisan on a thread which advocates the contrary.

To: carranza2 who wrote (12408)	2/17/2006 11:19:40 AM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541353

I listen to a lot of talk radio. Especially at night. Also in the mountains where I go in the summers the only radio that one can get is Rush Limbaugh,Sean Hannity and others who only support the right wing positions. It's rather disheartening because the news is definitely biased to one side. AND then when my hair dresser says her husband only listens to the radio for his news and input on what's happening in the world, I feel very dismayed. Just as we have differing opinions here, it's important to have different sides presented. I hear the right wing criticising the media and even the New York Times which I read all my life and have great faith in accurate reporting. Therefore, even though the article Kholt provided indicates what is happening I think that the secretary that has surrounded the current administration with refusal to release documents attaching the message that they are top secret, has led to a press that is very suspicious.. I keep waiting for a report in Valerie Plume... Libby.. Abramoff... and where are all these investigations going..? Why isn't something being published.. You write: I suppose that just means that the press will start seeing more evil conspiracies, maybe Cheney shot the poor guy on purpose to deflect media attention from these weightier matters. I have no doubt some loon will eventually make this point.....hm, yeah, that's the ticket. Conspiracy theories only arise when there is reason to have suspicions.. AND when conjecture about what may be the truth always sells news... and the media is in the news business. I just wish it were not so slanted.. your way. (:)

To: carranza2 who wrote (12408)	2/17/2006 12:02:59 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541353

The press has been brilliantly outmaneuvered, again, by Cheney I find all the Cheney stuff hardly worth spending much time on. Just love the humor it's generated. However, Cheney's pr strategies are hardly "brilliant". As Alan Simpson noted, and other Cheney friends, he will henceforth have to deal with this just as Gerald Ford had to deal with the stumble, etc. It's the kind of pr gaffe that so perfectly fits with other elements in the public image of the man, that it becomes his that image. For better or worse. But I can't see how that's a brilliant pr strategy.