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- From: meyers@leonardo.rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers)
- Subject: Re: Media Error/Bias Log proposal
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.200700.27322@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Sender: meyers@rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:07:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.151532.26958@ms.uky.edu> <1h0k24INNi1f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1h0k24INNi1f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bz269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James D. Del Vecchio) writes:
- [ ... ]
- >Jack Keith, the senior editor say that he gets no instructions from
- >Gannet on what slant to put on things, and he just writes what he
- [ ... ]
- >terms was that neither himself or his reporters know anything
- >about guns, and that these are honest mistakes. I believe him.
-
- No problem. I'd believe him too. The first time.
-
-
- [ ... ]
- >for a common term, and that it was a mistake of not being technically
- >aware. He said that "if the police say the perp used a purple-people-
- [ ... ]
- >He said it was not an attempt at sensationalism, but just a mistake.
- >He said they just didn't have a clue about guns.
-
- Given that crime is on every American's top-ten-concerns list, and
- guns are the media's favorite way of dramatizing it, you'd think maybe
- they'd go get a clue. But hey, no problem. We're all busy folks too.
- I'd believe him. The second time.
-
- But if it keeps on happening ... ?
-