How Easy Is It to Slant A News Report?

PascalFervor ^ | May 22, 2002 | d14truth and Avoiding_Sulla

[Avoiding_Sulla]

The idea for this extended examination of a news story began on the thread 'Pay to play' concerns fueling Simon's gubernatorial hopes. There d14truth became so fed up with the bias in this one news report that he started to dissect and reword the article.

Encouraged by myself and others, he expanded the initial effort into a dissection of the whole piece.

Hence the vast bulk of this work was done by d14truth. With me acting as creative editor, we cooperated to put together this final effort.

We hope you enjoy it.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

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[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This is an excellent demonstration of the fact that you have to parse every word produced by the leftist media in this country, and is worthy to be compared with the work of the Media Research Center.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

BTTT!

[d14truth]

Paging the "King of ping" and the 'Governor's Club'

[Grampa Dave]

Great job!

[boris]

Yes, yes. Very easy. In fact it is so easy that doing it well takes a lot of skill. In other words you don't lather it on, you slip it in with a word here, an adjective there. The 'translated' piece was--like the original--heavy handed and obvious.

In any event, I recommend finding something else to do with your time. If Grey Davis were found to have killed Chandra Levy with his bare hands, he would still be re-elected. The deceased and illegal-alien vote mean that Simon is toast--EVEN IF the media were to close up shop tomorrow.

--Boris

[Avoiding_Sulla]

"...an excellent demonstration of the fact that you have to parse every word produced by the leftist media..."

Thank you General.

[d14truth]

"In any event, I recommend finding something else to do with your time. If Grey Davis were found to have killed Chandra Levy with his bare hands, he would still be re-elected. The deceased and illegal-alien vote mean that Simon is toast--EVEN IF the media were to close up shop tomorrow."

Speaking of heavy-handed and obvious.

Rewrite for 'right-thinking' Californians--"In any event, I recommend you finding something else better to do with your time. If Gray Davis were found to have killed Chandra Levy with his bare hands, he some would still be whining about the likelihood of his being re-elected. The deceased and illegal-alien democRAT vote means that Simon is toast going to need your help--EVEN IF the media were to close up shop start printing the truth tomorrow."

[d14truth]

To FRiends and FReedom lovers who seek only the 'TRUTH'

[Avoiding_Sulla]

...doing it well takes a lot of skill. In other words you don't lather it on, you slip it in with a word here, an adjective there.

Here you're right. Slanted reports, like the original, are intentionally not blatant. They only soften up the readers for far worse propaganda (like the other thread about what was published by the NYTimes about Simon's fundraiser in New York -- someone please supply that link).

This newsstory we parsed is representative of many moderately biased pieces, published by country-cousin newsrags, which only jab and insinuate and insult.
Their job is not unlike the function of picadors at a bull fight: to clown and jab and cut and run and set the bull up for the matador.
The ever more heavyhanded and declining L.A. Times cannot take down opponents of their Dim* favorite by themselves.
Like an overly stuffed matador long past his prime, whose slashes at the bull are labored and lack grace; they need help -- a lot of it!

The 'translated' piece was--like the original--heavy handed and obvious.

If our intent was to produce an original and unbiased news report you'd have a legitimate complaint. You don't.

See, it's called reversing the polarity. While we went out of our way to avoid going overboard (see the original thread, referenced in comment #1, from which this was an expansion), we still needed to reverse the original bias in order to make it obvious.

For your next try, go back to your Davis campaign busses and let's see if they even can conjure up for you a better line of defense. <G>

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*Dim -- in the case of Gray Davis, this nickname carries too much, er, wattage, to be misunderstood as cavalier namecalling.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Verrrrry interesting, d14truth! Way to go!!!

[Avoiding_Sulla]

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[d14truth]

An interesting lesson for the 'students'

[Avoiding_Sulla]

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[headsonpikes]

Good exercise!

But no surprise as to media bias.

[absalom01]

BTTT

[heleny]

Gov. Davis pumped donors, while watching California sink deeply into debt.

Exactly.
You guys did a great job with the side-by-side comparisons.

[heleny]

Slanted reports, like the original, are intentionally not blatant. They only soften up the readers for far worse propaganda (like the other thread about what was published by the NYTimes about Simon's fundraiser in New York

Here's one about Mr. Simon's visit to Burbank, CA. The slant is pretty obvious.
Long-Shot Winner Turns Dark Horse in California (Liberal Media Attacks Simon)
NY Times | May 17, 2002 | JAMES STERNGOLD
Posted on 5/21/02 8:22 AM Pacific by William Creel

The above was the closest I found. The only other recent NY Times article about Simon and Davis was the Oracle shredding scandal, below, and then news about Bush's visit to CA and about the April Field poll.
Inquiry May Shift Momentum in California Contest
New York Times | 5/04/02 | JAMES STERNGOLD
Posted on 5/4/02 12:04 AM Pacific by kattracks