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To: Enigma who wrote (14584)	7/17/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: Ted David	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116756

I hear this from Jimmy Rogers and from folks at the Platinum Guild. I have not heard it within the last 2 weeks, but recently enough. td

To: Enigma who wrote (14584)	7/17/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116756

U.S. majority says news reporting often wrong 05:00 p.m Jul 11, 1998 Eastern NEW YORK, July 11 (Reuters) - More than half of Americans think news reports are often inaccurate and most believe journalists are under more pressure from owners to get a good story than they were in the past, a poll released on Saturday said. The poll was taken after a retraction by CNN of a nerve gas story and the firing of writers for the Boston Globe newspaper and the New Republic magazine for fabricating facts. The poll, conducted by the Pew Research Centre and published in Newsweek magazine, said 53 percent of those surveyed characterised news reports as ''often inaccurate.'' Fewer than half, 46 percent, said they believe almost all or most of what the media reported. Some 61 percent survey said they got their news from television, 24 percent from newspapers and 2 percent from online or Internet services. The poll surveyed 752 people and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The poll also found that 76 percent felt the news business and gone too far in the direction of entertainment. It also found that compared to the past more journalists were influenced by pressures from owners (77 percent), other journalists (71 percent) or the desire to be rich and famous (70 percent) than by the urge to report the news fairly (33 percent.) Some 61 percent of those surveyed said they were aware of the CNN retraction, an event that CNN founder Ted Turner said on Friday was ''the most horrible thing'' ever to happen to him. ''Nothing has upset me as much in my whole life,'' Turner said, including his Atlanta Braves baseball team ''losing to the Yankees in the World Series after being up by two games, the failure of two marriages, the death of my father. It's the most horrible thing.'' The June 7 CNN report said the U.S. military used the deadly nerve gas sarin to kill American defectors and North Vietnamese during a secret 1970 raid by a Special Forces unit on a small Laotian village. The story was reported on ''NewsStand,'' a joint venture of CNN and Time magazine. Both news organisations retracted the story July 2, saying that the facts could not be supported, and the network apologised to all of the military participants. Since then, one producer at CNN has been fired and two others have resigned. Correspondent Peter Arnett was reprimanded. Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited.