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Originally posted by bilmore
No, I'm saying that, when one purports to deliver news, one should not sneak partisan cheerleading into the effort, no matter what side you're on.
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I think you're changing the discussion somewhat from your prior post, but ok.
I think it's pointless to say anything other than we are never going to have the perfect world of bias-free news. FNC realized this and has made some good money capitalizing on it. In the same way, you are going to have a hard time convincing me that a publisher would keep printing what you would call liberal cheerleading if it was cutting into the paper's profits. I agree with AG's earlier point, that story selection is a function of what interests our (depressingly Springerized) news consuming public. Do you think all of the NYT's readership are Dem true believers? As I said to Hank, read some of Bumiller's stuff and see if you find it so outlandish.
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My local paper keeps talking about the "discredited Swiftboaters". It speaks as if the subject has been closed. It simply does not quote any of the rather conclusive evidence the other way, and, in fact, walks very lightly around how Kerry has admitted that his Cambodia stories were "not quite accurate".
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I'm not here to defend the Minnesota Daily Worker. I would just posit that there are many open minded people out there who do not find the evidence in the Swiftvets favor so conclusive. Like me for instance (well, except for the open minded part). But yes, to simply dismiss them as discredited at this point doesn't seem accurate.
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It certainly never speaks of how the central points that Kerry was trying to make as he attempted to sway US policy depended on the very anecdotes that he now dismisses as mere details.
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Similarly, I am pretty furious at the press for failing to adequately address the the innuendo coming from the admin that Iraq had a hand in 9/11, when there was no proof of that link. That is, until polls showed that 2/3 of the country thought there
was a link. Anyway, before that realization I got the real info from other outlets, just like you do with the Kerry stuff.
I don't doubt that if I lived in a one-paper town somewhere in Bush country I'd probably feel the same way as you do. But to say that the press are liberal liars I think skews the debate a little bit. Then again, where would this board be without hyperbole every now and again...
