Posted on 10/18/2005 10:25:10 AM PDT by johnqueuepublic
Unless and untill we hold the media accountable, nothing will ever change.
This might be of particular note to those in the San Francisco, CA Bay Area.
This was the newspaper that a couple of weeks ago issued a description of a suspect that gave every vital statistic about him except that he was black.
Knight Ridder's coverage has been shamelessly biased. I have been saddend and deeply disappointed in its one sided outlook. They could do better.
You are correct, black is verboten - in the context of crime - in the CC Times.
I would be especially interested in any tidbits the assembled intelligentsia here might have on Joseph Galloway, KR's lead military reporter.
He seems to think that his meritorious actions a thousand years ago in VietNam indemnify him against all charges of anti-administration media bias.
Can I assume that you subscribe to this monstrosity, as I do?
No, I heard Jeff Katz on KNEW-910 going crazy about it on his show at the time.
I subscribed to the Murky News for a number of years and finally had to give it up, even before I realized what a horrible bias it had. I just can't take a paper seriously that as a matter of policy dedicates 25% of its front page to some stupid "human interest" picture, no matter what is going on in the world.
"... the leftist press does not necessarily believe that democracy CAN'T work in Iraq, the fact is that they HOPE that it doesn't work, because that would affirm the wisdom of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies."
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Bingo!
All this huff and puff over clearly biased and distorted news coverage...culminating with a proposal to the editor to hold a "public meeting" ? To do what? Layout the next day's news stories? Silly. Hopeless. The world doesn't work that way.
They don't need you or any well meaning,sincere pilgrim to "help" them state the facts clearly and honestly. Can you be that guileless? They have a crystal clear agenda and truth has nothing to do about it.
The last thing champions of truth, or average honest citizens for that matter, needs are marginal representatives naively championing the cause of TRUTH with calls for public meetings to "get down to facts". Your amateurish presence alone make you just one more part of the problem and no help whatsoever for the prospect ogf fair or balanced news reporting.
Reminder to fire your newspaper. Yes..even yours.
The Merc is a Knight Ridder joke also, KR is located in San Jose, that image is of their building.
As goofy as it may seem the SF Chron seems to be more balanced than the KR products, if you except their obvious bias on gay and gender related issues.
I have personally talked to Mr. Lopez on numerous occassions he actually claims that the majority of the Times management are in the GOP, the last time I talked to him I said "with all due respect, I simply think that is untrue"
Sheesh what set you off?
Is your last name Lopez?
Your silliness. Amatuers not needed.
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HUGE IRAQI MAJORITY SUPPORTS CONSTITUTION
... so much so that the election commission is "investigating "unusually high" vote totals" of over 90% in some provinces, and and the NYTimes plays it up as "possibility that the results of the referendum could be called into question". Actually, no; there is no evidence at all to call the election into question. None:
"The statement made no mention of the possibility of fraud, but said results were being re-examined to comply with internationally accepted standards. Election officials say that under those standards, voting procedures should be re-examined anytime a candidate or a ballot question got more than 90 percent of the vote."
If merely crossing the 90% level of support is a cause for suspicion, then you would find many Congressmen and many inner-city precincts are in the 'suspicious' category. So the numbers are not the issue, the issue is simply is there any potential of invalid votes.
These allegations of voting fraud are not based on evidence but the knee-jerk whining from the same Iraqi Sunni front groups that have given implicit support to terrorists while undermining the US and Iraqi Government. They should be given the same credence as other anti-democratic forces would get in our country if they decried a "phony election" without evidence.
Consider the lack of motive: The measure had support that was strong enough that there was no doubt it would command a majority. (This is possibly why turnout was moderate in some Shiite-dominated provinces, the people there knew their vote wasn't critical. In provinces where there was a chance the measure would fail by getting 2/3rds rejected, there was a strong turnout.) It was pointless to rack up large majorities there.
There is no attempt to share the actual positive results here, just sow confusion through partial and distorted reporting. Another example of a media that slights good news in favor of negative bias.
And you sir are a "professional?"
We could probably benefit from your great counsel, please lecture us.
"Amateurs" also need not apply.
Yep. Go outside and play.
Every monday, the Conta Costa Times picks a prominent liberal figure of the Bay Area, and awards her (yes, it's usually a her) a spot on the front page known as the "Monday Profile." It's usually some 'activist' of one type or another. Also, although the Contra Costa Times is supposed to serve Contra Costa County (hence the name, Contra Costa Times'), they accept (and often publish) letters from Berkeley, which is in Alameda County, because they tend to be more politically aligned with the newspapers apparent goals.
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