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Thaddeus Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 06:56 PM
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News fairness debate focuses on Iraq war
Media professionals and academics gathered Thursday to discuss how the war in Iraq has been portrayed and whether there's been a return to the partisan press.

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Daniela Dimitrova, an assistant professor at Iowa State, who analyzed online content, found that the vast majority of coverage focused on the military conflict and the violence of war, rather than the reason for the war and the fight for democracy in Iraq.

Her critique dealt only with the official war period, March 20 through May 1, 2003.

"The most interesting shift in the middle part of the war is that human interest stories become more common," she said, citing a rise in stories about Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers.

In a separate study, Victor Pickard, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois, found that in its print editions, the New York Times often presented a sanitized view of the war in its early days, noting that the Times is considered the nation's paper of record.

Pickard, whose study focused on the first week of the war, said he was surprised to see how the paper covered the conflict.

"This is yet more evidence that there are many holes in the elite, liberal media argument," he said. "In coverage of the war, they pretty much get in line behind the president."

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA081205.8B.partisan_press.1c8e8057.html
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 07:00 PM
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1. "many holes in the elite, liberal media argument"
gee.... ya think?




Mr Obviousman strikes again
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Thaddeus Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 07:06 PM
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2. Obviously, it's obvious
Though the majority of Americans do not realize it.

Therefore, it doesn't hurt to say over and over and over. How do you think it became commonsensical for so many people to believe there is such a thing as "the liberal media"?
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are_we_united_yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 07:09 PM
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3. Now you've done it.
Back to the Pharynx surgeon to get this Espresso out my sinuses.

I almost bust a guton your picture.

:rofl:
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 07:22 PM
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4. "return to the partisan press" transl.: reporters no longer wet selves
whenever the King mentions Sheptember the Leventh 2001.
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Thaddeus Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 07:42 PM
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5. Should the facade of objectivity
be dropped altogether?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 08:30 PM
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6. lets see Fox/Rush/O'Lielly etc report this one. te he--I dream.


Pickard, whose study focused on the first week of the war, said he was surprised to see how the paper covered the conflict.

"This is yet more evidence that there are many holes in the elite, liberal media argument," he said. "In coverage of the war, they pretty much get in line behind the president."

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Thaddeus Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 06:31 PM
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7. ya never know...
They might just bring it up to mock it...
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 08:15 PM
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8. That's Faux/Flush
You got the O'Lielly right.
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