When media aims for balance, views/facts get lost
Christian Science Monitor
by Dante Chinni
07/11/06
A few weeks ago in this space I asked you for your thoughts on the news media -- what you don't like and don't understand about how reporters and news outlets go about their work. A few dozen responses later, it's safe to simply say there's a lot. But if, as reporters always defensively say, the media are not a monolith, that is even more true of media users. Some of you turn to and trust the biggest media and some of you dislike them. Some of you think blogs are more honest news sources and some of you are leery of them -- others don't use them at all and don't understand the fuss over them. Some happily sample a large number of outlets on the Web and others purposely restrict their choices. But several of you raised the same point of concern: The media need to do a better job with 'balance' in the news...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0711/p09s01-codc.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Dante Chinni
07/11/06
A few weeks ago in this space I asked you for your thoughts on the news media -- what you don't like and don't understand about how reporters and news outlets go about their work. A few dozen responses later, it's safe to simply say there's a lot. But if, as reporters always defensively say, the media are not a monolith, that is even more true of media users. Some of you turn to and trust the biggest media and some of you dislike them. Some of you think blogs are more honest news sources and some of you are leery of them -- others don't use them at all and don't understand the fuss over them. Some happily sample a large number of outlets on the Web and others purposely restrict their choices. But several of you raised the same point of concern: The media need to do a better job with 'balance' in the news...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0711/p09s01-codc.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 12. Jul, 15:36
