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- From: roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
- Subject: Re: The mother of all Feminist Majority challenges
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:39:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.160155.11302@csus.edu> chaneysa@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Steve Chaney : Borg Operating Space Systems, Revision 2.0) writes:
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- >You have two BIG women's groups prowling across the abortion wars
- >battlefield - National Organization for Women, and Concerned Women of
- >America.
-
- >2) Do we now live in a universe where 280,000 > 750,000 ?
-
- Nope. But we do live in a universe where 280,000 > -750,000.
- Perhaps the CWA are too negative to be covered? :-) :-).
- (I'll let other people worry about the actual numbers and the
- accuracy of same.)
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- >HOW IN THE HELL IS IT THAT THE LARGER OF THE TWO WOMEN'S GROUPS GETS
- >ABSOLUTELY NO COVERAGE WHATSOEVER IN ANY MEDIA STATION ACROSS THE PLANET
- >EARTH?
-
- You mean even your hero, Rush LimborgerCheese, won't talk about the CWA?
- Why? What did they do so wrong to be snubbed? :-)
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-
- Seriously, your argument has some problems. One is that I've heard of
- the CWA in the general media. You are engaging in hyperbole (exageration);
- a poor way to gain credibility. I also see relatively little of NOW in the
- news. The main thing I see is coverage of protest marches when *either* side
- has a big one.
-
- Second, this blanket argument that news must cover topics according to the
- number of people involved is ridiculous. Following that rule, we would have
- very little media coverage of crack-babies as other health issues involve
- far greater numbers (heart attacks, car accidents). I see little coverage of
- NOW or CWA, but *IF* it is true that NOW gets more coverage than CWA, I'd
- guess that it is because their members (whether larger or smaller
- in number) are more activist and provide more photo-opp's and press
- conferences than the other group. For example, the old Moral Majority got
- a fair amount of press coverage, which (following your line of reasoning)
- would argue against a liberal bias in the media.
-
- Third, if the media was actually so far out of synch with the American
- mainstream as you seem to think, then few would be watching the news or
- buying the newspapers and there would be a lot more complaining about the
- media. As it is now, Bush complains that the press is too nice to Clinton
- and Clinton claims the press is too nice to Bush. (And neither are
- very nice to each other! :-)
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