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This is almost the same as another thread dealing with the media. Yesterday on the Fox website their was a long piece dealing with a newspaper in the upper midwest - not being polite - just can't remember where it was - (Minesota I think)the gist of the whole thing was that this paper had a policy of being as close to politically correct as it could get - the story was dealing with sports - the paper would use no tern that dealt with Native Americans ( We used to call them Indians but that too is apparently not corr.....) Anyhoo - this paper sanitized everything to fit these ideals - no 'Skins or Savages or --- you get the idea. I cannot find this or I'd put the source up. The whole idea of being "politically correct" was allowing the news to be totally distorted - the same was apparently true in a bunch of new school books that had been "politically corrected" in California - when they were finished there was nothing left that even resembled history.
In a way I can understand the mess that CNN created for them selves in dealing with the Iraqi government - they were willing to make a deal with the devil to keep their reporters in Iraq when others had been expelled - but why? If they could not actually report the news as it happened did it matter?
I think we need to go back to - this is what I saw - I told you what I was told - take it with a grain of salt and decide for yourself! That approach, according to those in the news business will not sell.
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