Oh, that liberal media
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December 11th, 2003 at 10:23 am
What?
December 11th, 2003 at 11:48 am
Failure to report a pure propaganda story carried only by Drudge and Washington Times qualifies as bias? Whatever you’re smoking, I’d like to share!
Maybe they didn’t run the story because they were too busy covering unimportant stuff, like two more US Soldiers being killed in Iraq yesterday. Silly them, they should bury that and run the feel-good story!
December 11th, 2003 at 11:53 am
I should note that those damn liberal elites over at Fox News didn’t bother to carry the story either. You’re right, the liberal bias is maddening! 🙂
December 11th, 2003 at 11:56 am
I’m going to file this link as Exhibit A in my long-standing argument that to a conservative, anything that lacks a strong conservative bias inherently has a strong liberal bias.
Corollary: Anyone who doesn’t accept that Bush is the second coming of Christ is a Castro-loving Commie.
(OK, maybe that last is a bit much, but you get the idea…)
December 11th, 2003 at 11:57 am
Yeah, justin covered the fox news angle. However, instapundit reports fox did later cover it. So Tom, why is this story unimportant? If for no other reason it doesn’t advance reports of a quagmire?
December 11th, 2003 at 12:04 pm
And it’s not a pure propaganda story. It happened. It is significant. And people would want to know it.
Kinda like when out of 200 reports of a shooting, only four mentioned that the shooter was stopped by people who went to their cars to get guns.
The bias is there and it comes from both sides, left and right.
December 11th, 2003 at 12:14 pm
Su
Wow. One story proves that terrible liberal bias!
When a former Democratic Party Chair is running a news organization, when Jankow gets as much coverage as “Democratic Congressman” Condit, when the fact that a Republican fundraiser was a Chinese spy gets as much coverage as the phony Chinese pay off scandals in the Clinton Administration, when Bush’s inconsitencies from 2000 get as much attention as the false claim that Gore said he invented the internet, when labor leaders get as much face time on CNBC as CEOs, when Clear Channel starts handing out American flags at Democratic rallies and not just pro-Bush ones, when the press spends as much time on Plame as they did on Whitewater, when there are actual liberals on cable talk shows, when a lefitst religious cult owns an important Washington newspaper, when the fact that Bush has kept Saddam’s oppressive labor laws in place get as much attention as that statue being pulled down, when the money giving of Scaife gets as much attention as that of Soros, when Kruathammer is fired for delibertly altering a Dean quote to change its meaning, when Novak is fired for revealing the name of an undercover CIA agent, then, well, then we are back to even. Unti then, whining about the “liberal bias” in the press makes you look silly.
For whatever reason, the majority of the news agencies thought the story was un-news worthy – including FOX. Fox only picked up the story when it was covered by their fellow travelers on the right. And, I cannot even find it on FOX anymore.
December 11th, 2003 at 12:19 pm
You guys are preaching to the converted here. I know there’s a bias on both sides. It depends on the reporter’s predispositions and the particular news outlet.
Anyone noticed how the KNS is all but giving Bill Haslam a hummer?
One thing i do find odd is that there seems to be more bias against liberal people. And more bias against conservative ideals. And less against liberal ideals. And less against conservative people. I wonder why that is?
December 11th, 2003 at 12:30 pm
By the way, you’re the guy who uses strikethrough to talk about the “million, er, four mom march” — have you looked at the picture? That sure as hell doesn’t look like “thousands.”
You think this protest was newsworthy. I disagree. Let me ask you this: If there were a similarly-sized anti-US protest, would that have been newsworthy? If so, why? If not, why not?
December 11th, 2003 at 12:34 pm
If there were a similarly-sized anti-US protest, would that have been newsworthy?
Absolutely. And i promise you, it’d have been front page everyhere. As for why, it’s simple: bad news sells.
Kevin made the point about janklow v. condit. Condit was bigger because sex may have been involved. Lowest common denominator and all that.
Coincidentally, it looks like more people than were at those CA protests that got all the coverage 🙂
December 11th, 2003 at 1:38 pm
FWIW, I saw a MSNBC report on the march a little while ago (the network, not the website). Must be the blogosphere scoring one on big media again. Say Uncle, I think I saw Chris Jansing reading your page as they went to break . . . .
December 11th, 2003 at 1:52 pm
I never mentioned bias in that post. I just find it rather odd that when soldiers die it is front page news…civillians protest terror…back page news…or none at all.
December 11th, 2003 at 3:15 pm
I actually think Condit got a bum rap. The South Park episode with him, OJ, and the Ramseys was funny, but I honestly don’t think he murdered Chandra Levy. He was a creep, sure. He didn’t cooperate fully, sure. But I never saw any evidence he was a murderer.
As far as comparisons with Janklow, though, a hit and run doesn’t get the tabloids racing like a sex-and-murder story with an attractive victim.
That seems to be the standard nowadays for what missing person/murder stories are newsworthy these days: is the victim attractive, and is there lots of pictures or video? Of all the missing kids in this country, why do you suppose Dru Sjodin got all the attention? Right, she’s pretty and we’ve got pix.
December 11th, 2003 at 4:34 pm
Les:
Even that isn’t really enough. I saw an article several months back, I’ll try to dig it up, that tried to detail which stories gained widespread attention and which did not. Attractive White Female seems to be a prerequisite, but even that isn’t enough.