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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Vern Green wrote:
Well, if Vern Green says it, it must be true. I guess I was wrong to
think that ABC, CBS and NBC were giving relatively unbiased reports.
Vern Green knows that there are "standard lap dog groups out there,"
but he won't name those groups. And those groups, Vern Green says, are
controlling the "slant" that ABC, CBS and NBC put on the news. Well,
thank goodness that Vern Green got the inside info from his secret
sources and shared his vague ideas with us.
Its about demographic groups Mike, maybe you have heard of them.
Maybe. I am a tenure-track faculty member in Epidemiology. Have you
heard of Epidemiology? There is a relationship with demography.
In particular the 50-60 year old crowd who are so self-absorbed with
themselves that they do not have time to research beyond the shill that
is coming out of the major news titles. Those that grew up before the
days of cable TV, back inthe days of Walter Cronkite when the only news
on TV was the news they gave you. Back in the day when the term
journalistic integrity meant something.
Here are a few of your unsupported claims:
People in the 50-60 year-old range are self-absorbed
Self-absorption causes people to fail to research their news sources
People in the 50-60 year-old range watch more network news than do other
age groups
When Walter Cronkite was a news anchorman, journalists had more integrity
than they have today
What comes out of "the major news titles" today is "shill"
But this is all just bullshit that you made up because it helps to defend
your earlier inane arguments.
Of course, the first thing you jump on is the word groups like I am
referring to some secret organization that is out there influencing the
world. Demographic groups Mike, that is what all of the TV news channels
play to. From the ads they put on during the broadcast to the stories
and the slant they use to tell them.
How could anyone have known that you were thinking of demographic groups?
If my group is liberal democrats in their 50 - 60s that think the Iraq
war is a bad idea, do I really want to put on a story that might upset
them and have them go look somewhere else for their news. I cannot
afford to keep the news on TV if I do not have advertisers. So I pitch
to the crowd that I know is tuning in so to keep them tuning in week
after week. It is too bad really, but after all it is all business!
That kind of concern is not one that I have heard voiced about the major
news media, but it is easy to see why that kind of thinking would affect
Fox News.
If you get your news from a variety of sources and you look in a variety
of places for opinions and editorials, you will get a good idea of how
things work. Most news sources try to be "fair." They aren't catering to
some small group of viewers who prefer some bias to reality. If that is
what you think, show me the data on both demographics and news content for
a variety of news sources. I think you made the whole thing up.
Mike
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