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Friday, September 24, 2004Actually, the fact that the news is slanted is nothing new. It's been that way at least since the late 1970's when "investigative" journalism became the fashion in the wake of Watergate. Since then, it's been the goal of every news team, from local to national beats, to be the Woodward and Bernstein of their area. What local news station doesn't have an "I-Team" now? Their goals aren't to discover and report the facts, but to prove that someone in authority is behaving badly - whether that position of authority comes from the government, an oil company, a pharmaceutical company, or the medical establishment. In the process, the media has overlooked the fact that they've become "authority figures", too. And what do you know? They're more corrupt than other parts of the establishment, which at least have some measures of checks and balances in place. posted by Sydney on 9/24/2004 08:22:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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