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Thursday, November 09, 2006

News Starts Looking Better 

Newsbusters does a comparison of shifting media slanting - right on time:

Pre-election headline (Nov 6):"Poverty, anger with government fueling Taliban support in Afghanistan"

Post-election headline (Nov 9): "Poll: Afghans express confidence in country's direction, security"

Nothing new here. They did the same years ago with Clinton-era media bias:

I recall back in August 1992 the Presidential campaign was in full swing. The local (New York) ABC station decided to do a story on the economy. They did a LIVE remote from a Mall in Long Island and asked passersby how they felt the economy was doing. The results were mixed. One third thought that the economy was doing fine. One third thought it was doing horrible. And the remaining one third thought it was doing ok, but could be better. Fast forward 4 months later. It's the first week of December. Clinton has won the election. The same local ABC station decided to do another story on the economy. And they aired the same video. Only they edited out the ones that thought the economy wasnt doing so well. Left in were all the ones who thought the econmomy was doing great. And hte word "LIVE" was still in the upper corner. No mention of the fact that this was old video.


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