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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Liberal media bias
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 22:07:45 EST
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With regard to the bias of reporters and declining newspaper readership:

I happend to be an eyewitness to an event that was later published in
a news paper.  By eye witness I do not mean that I looked from the
sidelines but that I was right in the middle of it.

When I found out that the event was reported in the newpaper I was
greatly interested in finding the outcome.  By the time I had
finished reading the article I was trying to convince myself that it
was some other incident that had been reported, not the one I was
present at.

There was so much bias that I was unable to identify it as the incident
that I had been present at.  Now I have only this incident with which to
verify the accuracy of the news media but they failed totally.  Why
should I trust anything I read or see on television?  Before this I had
convinced myself that I could "filter out" the bias and get to the
facts but in this case the story was still way off even allowing for bias.

I have had other people report similar occurences to me.  In particular,
those with direct access to the wire services report that what appears
in the papers bears little relationship to what came over the wire.

Has any one else out there been a witness to an event that you were
later able to read about in the newspapers (or TV).  I would of course
expect it to be an event about which you were unbiased (I know I was, I
didn't approve of either side).  So if you were the one arrested then
don't bore us with protestations of innocence.

In summation I am introducing two topics for discussion:
    1 - Personal experiences with news reporting
    2 - Can I believe what is reported?

					    Jerry Aguirre
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