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From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Selective reporting - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 20:50:14 EDT
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As far as selective reporting goes, I think that what the media does
say--and how it says it--is only the tip of the part of it.  Combine
that with what the media doesn't cover, the stories they choose not to
run, the books they choose not to review, even the letters they won't
print, and also the types of questions reporters ask when doing a story
or taking an opinion poll.

Television reporting is the most dangerous medium.  Stories can be edited
to suit the message the media wants to convey and it come out looking very
convincing because, after all, you did see it with your own eyes right there
on your TV screen.  We are used to beleiving we have seen everything when
we have seen it with our own eyes.

But who needs a television?  I've gotten along fine for nine years without
one.  I think the tube is a big waste of time (with rare exceptions that don't
make it worth owning one).  The most enjoyable part is watching the look
on the cable TV salesmen's face when, after they run through their sales
pitch, I break the news to them.

I'd rather be reading.
-- 

Paul Dubuc 		{cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbscc!pmd

  The true light that enlightens every one was coming
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