On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:23:27 -0700, "Dave Bugg" wrote:

wrote:

It's only petty if you consider accusing a man of being
an internet pervert is somehow worse than accusing him
of being a Democrat....

That's a nice try at trying to side-step into another reality. However, my
comments were based on buffoons who seem to think that some sorta graphic
title screw-up is a conspiracy rather than accepting that it is just a
screw-up. Whether it is ABC, NBC or FOX or republican or democrat. Any of it
is petty.

Dave, I'd agree with you, particularly over a *single* instance as cited
in this instance. In other instances, this has gone on for quite some time
(one indicted/accused democrat representative was always identified as
so-and-so (Rep -- state)) I inadvertently thought it was Toricelli, but he
was a Senator at the time, it was one of the other democrat representatives
who was caught up in some scandal. This is not as benign as it appears,
especially when you look at the number of people (read - voters) who get
their news only from a few main stream media outlets and form their
opinions based upon a few 30 second sound bites. By not identifying the
party, or as in the case I cited, using Rep (for representative), someone
half paying attention will associate the accused with the Republican party
rather than their actual party and thus, by association cast aspersion on
that party. Probably not good for an overwhelming flood of voting, but
certainly helps buy a few percentage points. Now, in the case of the Foley
scandal, I can't believe that a single incident falls into the "conspiracy"
realm. The cases I have seen of this have gone on for days and weeks with
the news anchors rarely, if ever mentioning the party affiliation of the
accused if of one party and mentioning it in every other sentence if they
were members of the other party. I haven't watched Fox news for quite some
time, but reading their web page, they don't remotely fall into the realm
of conservative bias. Almost all of their articles are the same Al AP and
Al Reuters newswire stories everybody else carries with the exact biases
those services have.




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