{"id":325,"date":"2004-05-05T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/fair-and-balanced-yeah-right\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T18:26:48","slug":"fair-and-balanced-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/fair-and-balanced-yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair and Balanced? Yeah, Right."},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched the local news at noon the day John <\/p>\n

Kerry came to town. The top story was the arrest of a murderer, then coverage moved to Kerry. Kerry was shown standing around the airport <\/p>\n

waiting for something to happen. No on-the-scene sound was included, just a voice-over reading his schedule.<\/p>\n

After Kerry’s two <\/p>\n

minutes, coverage shifted to Duhbya. Bush was shown, as he always is, in front of a crowd, giving a speech. We heard him speak: ”a <\/p>\n

certain senator who has been around a while. He’s been around so long he has taken about both sides of every issue.” Re-read that <\/p>\n

stunningly inarticulate dig (after so many opportunities to rehearse it). This same clip<\/b> appeared on a later local broadcast on a <\/p>\n

different station.<\/p>\n

The TV programmers will insist they fairly showed equal time for both candidates. One was silenced — the other <\/p>\n

delivered precisely the message he wants us to beLIEve, however ineptly.<\/p>\n

”The Press” we used to count on has long be replaced by <\/p>\n

”The Media,” which exists to fatten its shareholders. The duty to inform has been replaced by the desire to sell. We have given <\/p>\n

away the public airwaves (which used to belong to the People) and now our airwaves and our money are being used to steal our freedom to <\/p>\n

choose wisely. We are being sold the product that benefits the shareholders the most. Forget about what’s good for America. mjh<\/p>\n

”Blow up your TV.” — John Prine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched the local news at noon the day John Kerry came to town. The top story was the arrest of a murderer, then coverage moved to Kerry. Kerry was shown standing around the airport waiting for something to happen. No on-the-scene sound was included, just a voice-over reading his schedule. After Kerry’s two minutes, … Continue reading Fair and Balanced? Yeah, Right.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}