Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drusd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!drutx!drusd!phl From: phl@drusd.UUCP (LavettePH) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Mr. Sevener's mythical media bias (second try) Message-ID: <1247@drusd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 17:15:22 EST Article-I.D.: drusd.1247 Posted: Thu Mar 7 17:15:22 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 07:27:53 EST References: <424@harvard.ARPA> <513@whuxl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 38 >In response to Jim: >............................... For example: I would be willing to >bet your smalltown paper did not carry the report that the Pentagon >admitted that the Nuclear Winter effect was valid. At the same time >they also probably did not carry the report in the New York Times >several weeks ago about the bloodshed in Cambodia. .......... > >As for TV news: I hardly ever watch the network news. ................. > >What I would like to see is media that are neither conservative nor liberal >but which present many sides of important issues in an informative manner. >Unfortunately that is sadly lacking................ > tim sevener whuxl!orb The Longmont(pop. 20,000), Colorado, TIMES-CALL front paged both articles. Some of my more left-of-center friends who live in Boulder, a somewhat liberal college town, refer to Longmont as "Redneck City" on their more charitable days. They do this because we take pride in the fact that less than ten percent of our population has been contaminated with a college education in one of those damn liberal universities. So much for your theory. The media you would like to see exists already, Tim, but you can't see it. You have to listen to it. It is called international shortwave radio. Radio Moscow World Service Deutch Welle Radio Canada International Kol Israel Radio South Africa VOA BBC Radio Peking Radio Habana Radio Swiss International Voice of the Islamic Peoples Republic There are many more. Some are hard to hear because the US is jamming the signal. They all beam their views into the US in english. All you have to do is listen. Try it some evening. - Phil