Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Would you like to see some?

Media bias, that is. It's subtle, but compare the Fox News online coverage of Bush's speech with the CNN online version.

How, you say? Notice that Fox includes enough contextual quotes from Bush's speech to convey the picture, while CNN stops their story abruptly after Bush's admission that "much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong" then quickly devolves into sidebars about internal polling, 30,000 deaths, and comments from Democrat Congresspeoples.

It's not always what a news organization says that counts for bias, it's what they don't say.

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