Another case of the usual media antics

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thaddeus

New member
Yellow Journalism at NBC

Dear Mr. Drudge,

Howie Carr and The Howie Carr Show had an interesting experience
with NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw on Tuesday.

NBC called us and asked if we would discuss the topic of the
effect of the Littleton shootings on our listener’s attitudes
towards gun ownership. Lisa Myers had a piece scheduled for that
night’s news broadcast and she wanted popular reaction footage to
complete her piece.

We agreed. In the first hour of the show Howie asked the
listeners how they were effected if at all while the NBC cameras
rolled. We took 33 calls.

30 of those calls said the effect of the shootings was to make
them want to own a gun for protection and not tighten up the
laws.

When the story aired on NBC that night Lisa Myers said that
according to polls (which ones she never identified) and popular
reactions on talk shows most people were in favor of stricter gun
laws and were against gun ownership. She went on to play one of
the 3 anti-gun phone calls from our show completely ignoring the
30 calls which did not agree with her premise.

This manipulation and skewing of the actual poll results from our
show has caused quite a stir among our listeners who [had] heard
the gun hour

and then witnessed the blatant misrepresentation of what the
majority response was on NBC news. It has left much of our
audience feeling mistrustful and angry with network news in
general and NBC specifically.

(By the way, this gun control feature led the news while China
and the Cox report was buried 11 minutes into the broadcast.)

Thanks for letting us vent.

Nancy Shack---Executive Producer

The Howie Carr Show
 
Finally. A media person, Nancy Shack, recognizing the fact that facts are being twisted to suit the networks agenda. Now will she take this opportunity to air the truth on her (Howie Carr) show and expose the deliberate lie broadcast by NBC?

Brokaw called Gole a liar on the news. (Okay sort of) If just a small hand full of the media would begin to report the truth and complain publicly when we are lied to it could have a tremendious impact on public opinion.

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Gunslinger

We live in a time in which attitudes and deeds once respected as courageous and honorable are now scorned as being antiquated and subversive.



[This message has been edited by Gunslinger (edited July 07, 1999).]
 
Gunslinger, you're right. The Brokaw thing, as an example, was just so unusual that it really stood out. What if that was done just once during each news broadcast? How about a "Channel 8's Lying Politician Of The Day!" feature? How would that affect people's perceptions, instead of hearing "What the (scumbag in question) was actually trying to say, was..."

Now THAT'S Journalism!

-boing
 
Lying Politician of the Day? Would the winner (ahem) be selected by frequency or egregiousness?

In either case, the lineup would be:

Monday: Clinton
Tuesday: Clinton
Wednesday... aw hell, you get the idea.

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You can't get something for nothing,
You can't have freedom for free.
--Neil Peart
 
How about Clinton's "campaign against poverty", flying around the country in that spiffy VC-25A...which costs $38,000 per flight hour? Doesn't it just make you proud?
 
The winning "Lying Politician Of The Day" would be selected by a random number generating computer program, linked to the names of every politician in the US.

They all win, eventually.

-boing

[This message has been edited by boing (edited July 09, 1999).]
 
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