Post At Spree's Place - You NEED to Go There!
The story below and links to Spree's website make it perfectly clear why the new media is getting more important every day. If you want to find out what is really going on in the world, you are going to have to dig to find it.
Thanks to Spree for the work she put in on this and please go to her site to see the entire article!
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-news-isnt-news-bad-news-is-bad_08.html
Monday, October 08, 2007
Good News Isn't News, Bad News Is Bad News and No News Is Good News: UPDATED with Wright's Response
[Update below with Robin Wright's [Wapo] response to my email from her contact form which is linked below]
The new rules of Journalism, admitted by Robin Wright from Wapo and Barbara Starr from CNN to Howard Kurtz. (Video below)
I am SO glad we now know those new rules and how Wapo and CNN determine what is and what is not appropriate to tell American viewers. (Although we already knew that CNN much prefers to report things that they have, admittedly, obtained from terrorist)
Huge hat tip to NewsBusters.
Increasing casualties: news. Declining casualties: not news.
Continued at the links above.