write them all you want to, if loss of readers have not changed them your letter is not going to.
--- On Fri, 7/25/08, Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: I heard it with my own two ears!
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 9:47 AM
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E.
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> <snip/>
>
> > This morning I read Marc Ambinder's account of the
> exchange. He is the
> > associate editor of Atlantic magazine.
>
> [...]
>
> > You hear both parties complain that the media treats
> them unfairly-by
> > what I heard yesterday and read this morning, they
> have a point.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've been involved with very few events that were
> covered by national
> > media, but I've been intimately involved with
> several local news stories
> > over the years and I'm always amazed that the
> media coverage has never
> > presented the "facts" with 100%
> accuracy-particularly from television
> > news, but it's endemic across all local media.
> You would think that
> > national news outlets would hold themselves to a
> higher standard of
> > truth, but that's apparently not the case.
> >
> >
> >
> > We're reaping the fruit of what we've sown:
> "Truth" is no longer
> > objective in the west. "Your 'truth' may
> not be my 'truth'", and, "we
> > create our own reality" are common refrains
> coming out of journalism
> > schools these days. That, is a sad truth.
> >
>
> If no one holds them accountable for reporting the truth
> there may be
> more benefit to reporting what fits their agenda, or the
> agenda of
> whomever they are beholding to. I hope you wrote a letter
> to the
> editor and "cc'd" it to the editors of some
> peer level publications?
>
>
> --
> Peter Hunsberger
>
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