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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (17212)	2/2/2007 10:47:44 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I think todays media are more sophisticated that the papers of Jefferson's day, but I'm betting dollars to donuts they haven't changed their basic tendency to have a slant. The basic problem as I see it is that our demography has a bi-modal distribution of views from left to right. That is, the frequency curve has two humps, like a two hump camel. What we need is a one-hump camel with the hump somewhere on the side of freedom and responsibility. That would put it right of center. With a two hump camel, the media can easily influence the outcome of an election by influencing a few people in the middle. With a one hump camel they have to influence a lot of people. That makes a good climate for objective reporting. Right now they don't have that.