4 Reasons to Be Glad Bush Is Still President

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 07:24 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:

> IMHO cable news and right wing talk radio, along with the religious
> right, have sent this country in the wrong direction. Spinning to the
> right with all their might they have managed to make a difference, and
> it only takes a few percentage points. Not enough people see that.
> (Maybe it's me!? ;-) )

I agree with this, but I would exclude any modifiers like 'right
winged'. All news sources have an agenda - political, economic,
ideological - but seldom is informative at the start of the list. I
think it is impossible to report on anything without a bias. I take
issue when any news source denies a bias, whether it be they are
western, white, African, yellow, rich, poor, exploited, exploiter. They
can no longer be trusted.

I miss an old news show that was on when I was in Grad school (and thus
able to stay up late enough to watch it). It was with Linda Ellerbee.
They reported on the news of the day - but the reports were how the
event was reported elsewhere in the world. Ratings for the show were not
high, which I think was more a result of it being on at one or two
o'clock in the morning rather than there being no interest in this sort
of thing.

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Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB