I agree with Wirt that the information is out there, if only we would
bother to tune our sets away from CSI-whatever to find them. I guess my
point, if I had bothered to be more specific, was that the Katrina
disaster was inescapable through the mainstream media, whereas it was
pretty easy to miss for the situation in Iowa.
What I call an "observation", and Wirt seems to refer to as a "peculiar
prejudice" is an opinion, which I mentioned at the end of my comment,
and which was not selected in Wirt's response. So the question I have,
and it is just an opinion, is whether or not the response was offered in
the same spirit or whether it in itself was a peculiar prejudice?
I have a good deal of respect for Wirt and what he has contributed to
our community, but in this case I disagree with his analysis.
Thanks,
Howard
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: It amazes me that the main stream media did
not pick up on this
Howard writes:
> I think the media execs were the ones not interested. News is no
longer
> about news, but rather about ratings, and everybody knows that the
good
> folks in Iowa (as opposed to those awful and decadent folks in NOLA)
are
> not ratings magnets.
The fundamental problem with Craig's complaints and your analysis,
Howard, is
that neither is true.
Thirty minutes after reading Craig's bit of nonsense that began this
thread, the
Sunday version of NBC Nightly News ran a lengthy piece on the Cedar
Rapids
floods last night, with a tour of the city's damages and recovery being
given
by a local city councilman.
I suspect the reason that more people don't see the "MSM"'s reports is
that
they simply don't bother to watch them, but would rather take refuge in
their
own peculiar prejudices, never being ones to let facts be a barrier to
strongly
held opinions, no matter how strange.
Wirt Atmar
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