[Rabid Dog]

This is a classic! A conference is held called "U.S. Media and Coverage of the War", only leftest publications or radio stations are invited and then our local paper tries to present it as a newsworthy event. Talk about 1/2 of the equation!

[Rabid Dog]

Ping!! Your daily dose of craziness in Ventura County. Tim Gallagher can be reach at gallagher@insidevc.com

[pointsal]

I didn't realize that Ventura had that many loonie tunes. They must have gotten their training in Isla Vista.

[RobRoy]

>>"Mainstream media makes you a spectator," he said, while choosing stories from the Web makes you your own editor. <<

The web has been my prime source of news since early 1997. I do get some info from the radio and I enjoy the conservative talk shows and some of the Liberals. Funny thing is that most of my "liberal" radio personalities have either gone off the air or become conservative. The first to make this switch was Mike Segal (sp?).

I've been exposed to some TV since the war started and the closest analogy I can give to describe it is that it reminds me of the "weekly reader" I got in kindergarden in 1959 - news for kids.

[Bernard Marx]

Thanks, RR. This is sooooo typical of the Red Star and Tim "Smug" Gallegher. If writing to him did any good (I started about a month after he took over) the paper would have changed by now. It hasn't.

I used to think economic losses would force papers to pay attention to editorial balance, but we have the horrible example of the L.A. Times. When faced with losses it was simply sold to a deep-pockets outfit that's further to the Left than the previous one. If enough people refused to buy them, the papers will go out of business. But they count on the fact that, ideology aside, people need to buy and sell things, learn about local issues, check the weather forecast, read the sports scores, etc., and that enables them to sell papers despite the fact their "news" content is skewed to the Left.

I'll write Gallegher and the reporter but doubt it will do much good. Editors pay attention only when large numbers of readers and advertisers raise hell. We must engage is some major "consciousness-raising" activities.