On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:05:56 -0700, "Jay Beckman"
wrote:

I gotta call BS here...

The "traditional" broadcast networks were (and are) capable of being slanted
themselves...while being commercial enterprises. Don't hang it all on FOX.

It took FOX (right leaning though they may be...) to show that the status
quo had been leaning the other way for quite some time.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ


There was a time that the TV news departments were separate entities,
and not answerable to the commercial side, and did not have to fear
offending the commercial interests.

That all changed, and the networks are now almost as bad as the news
channels, although probably less so.

60 Minutes caved in to the tobacco interests back in the days of the
guy (forget his name) who ratted out one of the tobacco companies,
because they feared a huge lawsuit. They lived to regret it.

About the only real journalism that's left is the Lehrer New Hour on
PBS, where you can actually get two civilly presented sides of real
issues.

Unfortunately, Bush and Co are loading up the CPB governing board with
their right-wing cronies, and we will soon be treated on public TV
to staged news conferences and shlled performances where hand-picked
audience members ask pre-screened softball questionsin an attempt to
make a moron president look like he knows what he is talking about.

Heaven knows what we will do for real news after that.