Front-page editorials
Back when Al Hurra was being developed, I believe it was Bush who complained that “the Arab world has newspapers that put their editorials on the front page. We want to provide something more objective” (I’m paraphrasing from 4-year-old memory)
Looking through the newspapers, I saw a front-page editorial in the New York Post shortly after Bush made that comment. The New York Daily News has headlines that are just snarky and gratuitous. Yesterday I saw the New York Sun also with a front-page editorial. Even the New York Times does some pretty lurid coverage of certain things on the front-page. Does that make Bush a hypocrite?
Well, you could say I’m taking only a tiny sample of printed media, and I am. But is all media that different in that respect? I saw CNN and MSNBC repeating talking points without question, even demeaning scholars who tried to disprove one of the talking points. Even Wolf Blitzer is easily misled and asks irrelevant and specious questions. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly hates the New York Times as one of the worst pieces of liberal propaganda, but that is coming from a man who hosted a tabloid TV show for years.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:56 am
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