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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (13770)	11/7/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Wonder why 89% of the media have acknowledged that they are liberals and in fact voted for Clinton, or so it was reported? At any rate, I do not seem to see all these conservatives publications out there. Still think the mainstream media is biased to the left!

To: jbe who wrote (13770)	11/8/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

jbe - what the report you cited fails to realize or recognize is that despite the supposed conservative influence exerted by the people named, the majority of non-politically active (or interested) citizens don't pay attention to much more than the evening news, their newspaper and a couple of the prime-time "enternewsment" shows. The shows they mention, aside from talk radio, which is listened to almost exclusively by persons who already agree with the right, aren't even blips on the ratings radar. The issue is the shaping of opinion in the minds of people who have not already made up their minds. Again, I'll cite examples: During the Bush-Quayle campaign, the "potatoe" misspelling story was one of the most heavily reported events in the news. When Clinton defended his lack of military experience in a speech, he said that Lincoln was never in the military, and "I think Abraham Lincoln was a pretty good president." It was touted as the perfect defense. It was reported in headlines like "Clinton Quiets Military Experience Critics in Speech" and in the major network news shows with lead ins like "President Clinton today laid to rest fears that his own lack of military experience would . . ." and so on. The problem was that Clinton was dead wrong - Lincoln did serve as an officer in the Army. But the "news" media, in their headlong rush to promote Clinton, never mentioned the fact that he was as wrong about Lincoln as Quayle was about "potatoe." More recently, how many people still believe that no one has gone to jail for perjury in a civil case? I'd venture almost everyone thinks it doesn't happen because no one in the major news media would want to go out and find out - they want the myth supported, well, almost. NBC finally ran a piece that introduced us to a woman who is serving a sentence for lying about sex, under oath, in a civil case. They found eight people serving time. How convenient that it ran just a few days after the elections. The subtlety of this kind of thing is what makes it so insidious. Mr. K.