Even the Media thinks that the Media are a bunch of liberal, biased suck-ups for Al Gore...

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Sunday, November 19, 2000

I feel SO guilty.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.



wow...this thread is giving me acid flash-backs...

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.

Wow! Kewl special FX!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), November 19, 2000.

How did you do that?!?! This is kewl.......

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), November 19, 2000.


Z...is this one of those things that if you have to tell me then it's not funny anymore? In that case, I won't ask. =o)

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), November 19, 2000.

SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOP! I'M GONNA PUKE!

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.




-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.

Editorials - November 19, 2000

These blasted networks:
Too much opinion on Florida election in TV news



  WE’RE TIRED of all this. No, not of the Florida situation, but of the network newspeople injecting their constant interpretation and analysis into almost every sentence they utter about the Presidential election. With the notable exception of the Fox New Channel, these stations’ anchors and reporters are so reflexively liberal that one almost learns more truth by turning off the television.
  These people can’t say Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris’ name without the prefixes “heiress” or “Republican.” They almost never mention that Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth - who improperly pressured counties to do a hand count of ballots - is a Democrat, co-chairman of the Gore campaign in Florida, and one of Gore’s 25 electors in the state. Or that the whiny Carol Roberts of Palm Beach’s canvassing board was a Gore fundraiser.
  Every time a judge remained neutral on an issue, the media quickly labeled it a “major blow to the Bush campaign.” When a judge ruled in favor of Bush on Friday, all the media would talk about was Gore’s plans for an appeal. This got tiresome very quickly. Why won’t these “news” reporters just tell us the facts, as the news section of a newspaper does, and leave the opinions for the broadcast equivalent of an editorial page like this one?
  We’re not the only ones who noticed how biased the television news coverage has been this past week. Rep. Billy Tauzin - who chairs the U.S. House subcommittee on telecommunications - says he will hold a hearing to explore the news media’s bias. He is wondering whether the media influenced the outcome of the election in Florida by calling the state for Gore so early on election night.
  These highly-paid media professionals in New York and Washington should have known Florida has two time zones, and that the Republican-leaning counties in the Panhandle had not finished voting by the time the networks called the race for Gore. How many Republicans in the Panhandle were so discouraged by the (incorrect) report that they decided to go straight home from work without voting? (Hey, maybe all those non-votes should be hand-counted?)
  While we’re glad Tauzin is raising much-needed awareness about liberal bias in the media, we feel it would be wrong for the government to meddle with the way the networks report the news. This is a free country, and networks have a right to be biased if they want. But because this is a free country, they should expect competition from up and comers such as the Fox News Channel, whose motto is “We report. You decide.” (Even Fox erred on election night, though. They were the first to call Florida for Bush at two in the morning.)
  The public also ought to know that a private organization called the Media Research Center is monitoring and carefully documenting these egregious examples of liberal media bias. If you think we sound alarmist in our frustration with the political leanings of many of the news channels, log onto www.mrc.org. Read for yourself how the television media have improperly influenced this very important chapter of American history.
  - Bernadette Malone Connolly


-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000

Answers

UB:

See that you published on EZboard today. Enuff said.

DB

-- DB (debunker@nomore.xxx), November 19, 2000.


DB what's your point?

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), November 19, 2000.

Cin:

You are so ------ :^)

Best wishes,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), November 19, 2000.


Uncle Bob:

The New Hampshire Union Leader & Sunday News is now considered representative of the media?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.


DB...I don't post on EZ...it's an imposter trying to ruin my good, conservative name...

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.


I think I'm the one who screwed up the HTML on this thread.



-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.

Well, this page wouldn't load at all in Netscape, even before the HTML Madness. It will load in I.E., though.

Very strange......

I kind of like the "two-column" look.

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), November 19, 2000.


Make that the "three-column" look :-)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), November 19, 2000.


DB...

Just e-mailed sysops at EZ to weed out the imposter...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, however.

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.


Let's try this.

-- (hmm@hmm.hmm), November 20, 2000.

Ahhh, much better.

-- (hmm@hmm.hmm), November 20, 2000.

Okay, now from the beginning!!!!

Even the Media thinks that the Media are a bunch of liberal, biased suck-ups for Al Gore...

greenspun.com : LUSENET : TB2K spinoff uncensored : One Thread
Sunday, November 19, 2000
Editorials - November 19, 2000

These blasted networks:
Too much opinion on Florida election in TV news



  WE’RE TIRED of all this. No, not of the Florida situation, but of the network newspeople injecting their constant interpretation and analysis into almost every sentence they utter about the Presidential election. With the notable exception of the Fox New Channel, these stations’ anchors and reporters are so reflexively liberal that one almost learns more truth by turning off the television.
  These people can’t say Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris’ name without the prefixes “heiress” or “Republican.” They almost never mention that Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth - who improperly pressured counties to do a hand count of ballots - is a Democrat, co-chairman of the Gore campaign in Florida, and one of Gore’s 25 electors in the state. Or that the whiny Carol Roberts of Palm Beach’s canvassing board was a Gore fundraiser.
  Every time a judge remained neutral on an issue, the media quickly labeled it a “major blow to the Bush campaign.” When a judge ruled in favor of Bush on Friday, all the media would talk about was Gore’s plans for an appeal. This got tiresome very quickly. Why won’t these “news” reporters just tell us the facts, as the news section of a newspaper does, and leave the opinions for the broadcast equivalent of an editorial page like this one?
  We’re not the only ones who noticed how biased the television news coverage has been this past week. Rep. Billy Tauzin - who chairs the U.S. House subcommittee on telecommunications - says he will hold a hearing to explore the news media’s bias. He is wondering whether the media influenced the outcome of the election in Florida by calling the state for Gore so early on election night.
  These highly-paid media professionals in New York and Washington should have known Florida has two time zones, and that the Republican-leaning counties in the Panhandle had not finished voting by the time the networks called the race for Gore. How many Republicans in the Panhandle were so discouraged by the (incorrect) report that they decided to go straight home from work without voting? (Hey, maybe all those non-votes should be hand-counted?)
  While we’re glad Tauzin is raising much-needed awareness about liberal bias in the media, we feel it would be wrong for the government to meddle with the way the networks report the news. This is a free country, and networks have a right to be biased if they want. But because this is a free country, they should expect competition from up and comers such as the Fox News Channel, whose motto is “We report. You decide.” (Even Fox erred on election night, though. They were the first to call Florida for Bush at two in the morning.)
  The public also ought to know that a private organization called the Media Research Center is monitoring and carefully documenting these egregious examples of liberal media bias. If you think we sound alarmist in our frustration with the political leanings of many of the news channels, log onto www.mrc.org. Read for yourself how the television media have improperly influenced this very important chapter of American history.
  - Bernadette Malone Connolly


-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000

Answers

UB:

See that you published on EZboard today. Enuff said.

DB

-- DB (debunker@nomore.xxx), November 19, 2000.


DB what's your point?

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), November 19, 2000.

Cin:

You are so ------ :^)

Best wishes,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), November 19, 2000.


Uncle Bob:

The New Hampshire Union Leader & Sunday News is now considered representative of the media?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.


DB...I don't post on EZ...it's an imposter trying to ruin my good, conservative name...

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.

I think I'm the one who screwed up the HTML on this thread.



-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.


Well, this page wouldn't load at all in Netscape, even before the HTML Madness. It will load in I.E., though.

Very strange......

I kind of like the "two-column" look.

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), November 19, 2000.


Make that the "three-column" look :-)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), November 19, 2000.


DB...

Just e-mailed sysops at EZ to weed out the imposter...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, however.

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.


I feel SO guilty.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.


wow...this thread is giving me acid flash-backs...

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.

Wow! Kewl special FX!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), November 19, 2000.

How did you do that?!?! This is kewl.......

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), November 19, 2000.


Z...is this one of those things that if you have to tell me then it's not funny anymore? In that case, I won't ask. =o)

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), November 19, 2000.

SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOP! I'M GONNA PUKE!

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.



-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), November 19, 2000.


-- Hope This Works (hmm@hmm.hmm), November 20, 2000.

What took you so long to get here, hmm? I did my best cyber-call yesterday, but you didn't show up.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 20, 2000.

I always miss the really good stuff...damn!

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), November 20, 2000.

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