[net.politics] Obviously an ultra-conservative leftist

decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (11/11/83)

I have, in ONE WEEK, heard that the CBS Evening News (with Danny), is on one
hand guilty of "nationalist ... drumbeating", and on the other, "antagonizing
the Administration about a supposed suppression of reports from Grenada".

My opinion of this program has increased greatly.  If everybody hates you
for completely contradictory reasons, you must be doing something well.

Remaining slanted in every-which-direction,


Dave Decot
decvax!cwruecmp!decot

ka@hou3c.UUCP (11/18/83)

	I have, in ONE WEEK, heard that the CBS Evening News (with Danny),
	is on one hand guilty of "nationalist ... drumbeating", and on
	the other, "antagonizing the Administration about a supposed
	suppression of reports from Grenada".

	My opinion of this program has increased greatly.  If everybody
	hates you for completely contradictory reasons, you must be doing
	something well.

	Dave Decot

Note that *both* criticisms accuse the CBS Evening News of putting its own
interests ahead of unbiased reporting.  The polls show that the majority
of the American people support the invasion (yes, invasion), and any news
program that portrayed it in a negative light would risk offending viewers.
And when CBS News and the president are in conflict over whether to allow
reporters in Grenada, it is understandable but regrettable if CBS News gives
lots of coverage to its point of view.

I don't know whether either of the criticisms are valid since I haven't been
watching the CBS Evening News, but reading them certainly does not increase
*my* opinion of the program.
					Kenneth Almquist