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- From: dgillmor@msen.com (Dan Gillmor)
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- Subject: Re: Media Bias? YOU Decide. Resumes Tell All
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 01:56:08 GMT
- Organization: Detroit Free Press
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- Thomas Richard Stevenson (tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu) wrote:
- : dgillmor@msen.com (Dan Gillmor) writes:
- :
- : >: I'm not sure if anyone is suggesting the media is biased deliberately,
- : >: but is biased solely by the type of people it attracts. Many reporters
- : >: get into reporting because they want to "change the world". This view
- : >: lends itself well to the liberal viewpoint.
- : >:
- : >I suspect that my right-of-center friends -- including some in the media
- : >-- would be amazed to learn that they want the world to remain as it is.
- :
- : A "change the world" view and a "make the world better" view is not necessary
- : the same thing. No one wants the world to remain as it is.
- :
- Semantics. Are you saying people on the left don't want to make the world
- better? That they want change for the worse?
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