Another station has several people who have gone back and forth between tv news and being a spokesperson or consultant for various government bodies, so they have connections in the Capital or City Hall and their bias is to report news on those subjects. As for the third station, they’re pretty straight and obviously they put more emphasis on newsreaders, but they also have bureaus throughout the state and if you watch them, then you’re apt to get more news from the places where they have a presence.

As for newspapers, the new-fangled, corporate line is that they should be middle of the road, but that’s not their history and because they don’t use public airways, there’s no requirement that they need to be unbiased.

To illustrate this history, I’ve coded my name to point toward a biography of Josephus Daniels from the North Carolina State Library. It’s only a couple of screens long and though he’s known for some good things, there are many other things with which modern people would find fault, but through it all, he was the owner of a powerful newspaper and he had his biases, as did William Randolph Hearst who is name-checked in the article.

Unbiased newspapers are a relatively new thing and I’d say that the ideal has only been around for a quarter century or less. It isn’t their history and though they may teach such things in journalism school nowadays and though their corporate owners may insist upon it, it will probably take a while until society catches-up with this radical reinvention of an industry

it was based on the idea that the big guys never lose and there is only a free market when that market is going up. tens of thousands of little guys get wiped out of house and home in this “credit” crunch but wall street biggies “hold out their tin cup” and the fed obliges. “too big to fail”.

it lasted online for about 10 minutes. and hasn’t been seen since. good thing i printed out a copy and circulated it.

i’m telling you, this sh$t has to stop. people might begin to ask questions.