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Like many of the Harvard students shown in the photo in your October 1 edition, I viewed the first Bush-Kerry debate (“It Takes Two”). As an American living in London, however, my viewing was after the fact and by CNN video. I would like to share with your readers the perspective of an American living overseas...
...head, another guy turned into a kind of jerked human by the shockwave of a tank’s shell and an innumerable number of dead bodies disfigured by improvised explosive devices, I wondered why this never made it on the news. Whether you’re watching Fox, CNN or PBS you seldom see the contorted faces, the torn and charred flesh. We only get the most vague and abstract sense of what a war is: x dead, y injured, cartoonish maps showing where the fighting is going on. In the popular mind war is being turned into...
...thinks that most Muslims are not good Muslims," says an official. "I can see him looking down his nose at them." Lindh also spends his days poring over his fan mail, which so far has included at least one marriage proposal. "When people talk to him about his CNN interview, he gets a glint in his eye and a little smile," says the official. "He's definitely into the fact that he's famous." --By Siobhan Morrissey
There’s no denying that individual media outlets cover events differently. Just look at the headlines. When interim Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi addressed a joint session of Congress recently, reporters from both Fox News and CNN attended the same speech—but they didn’t write the same stories. The headline on CNN.com read, “Bush: US Won’t Abandon Iraqi People.” Fox News chose the simpler: “Allawi: Thank You America.” Judging only from the headlines, Fox?...
Flash forward to 2004. Three 24-hour cable news channels compete for viewers. CNN captures the liberals, Fox News the conservatives and MSNBC the viewers who are transfixed by long acronyms. Fox News is winning the cable battle, and during the Republican National Convention it even beat the networks. At the same time, media intellectuals, pundits and ordinary Americans alike agree that Fox exhibits a fairly extreme bias towards the right. Eighty-nine percent of Americans trust museums for unbiased information. Thirty-six percent trust television news. These numbers don’t really add up. Americans in the twenty...