wrbull@aluxp.UUCP (bullman) (10/29/84)
> With regard to the bias of reporters and declining newspaper readership: > > I happend to be an eyewitness to an event that was later published in > a news paper. By eye witness I do not mean that I looked from the > sidelines but that I was right in the middle of it. > ... > > Has any one else out there been a witness to an event that you were > later able to read about in the newspapers (or TV). I would of course > expect it to be an event about which you were unbiased (I know I was, I > didn't approve of either side). So if you were the one arrested then > don't bore us with protestations of innocence. > > In summation I am introducing two topics for discussion: > 1 - Personal experiences with news reporting > 2 - Can I believe what is reported? > > Jerry Aguirre > {hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry My experience is with a Phila. TV station and their covering of a Speech and the following Q/A session given by the former US Ambassador to Iran on the Iranian Hostage Crisis while spineless Carter was still occupying the White House. Some protesters kept interrupting the speaker and had to be forcibly ejected. Needless to say the 11 o'clock news only had a story on these two degenerates interruptions and said nothing of the other 2500 students who listened attentively and asked some intelligent (and some embarassing) questions. It really ragged me that the story (and it was a fictional work)clearly implied that these bozos were the rule rather than the exception in the student body. Nothing could have been further from the truth. This occurred at the University of Pennsylvania in the 79-80 school year. William R. Bullman AT&T Bell Laboratories Allentown, PA USA ...!aluxp!wrbull