Friday, June 17, 2005
Fighting Words
I’m not sure if this qualifies as “bias,” but it’s certainly an example of the absurd degrees that some media outlets will stoop in order to stir up trouble or simply make the Bush administration look bad.
On the front page of one of Japan’s English newspaper’s was a blurb noting a Reuters article deeper in the paper.
The Headline; “Rice Says She Doesn’t Know If N. Korea’s Kim Is Sane.” The article itself is just another rehash of things that have been said by Bush and members of his administration about the worst dictatorship on the planet. The message in these brief reminder articles is ultimately that Bush is egging the North Korean dictator on with provocative speech. (The actual article I had read in Japan's Daily Yomiuri was longer than the brief one I was able to find and post in the link above).
The utterly insane hyperbole in this article is it’s headline vs. the reality of what actually transpired. Rice had simply been asked in an interview if she believed Kim Jong Il was sane. Her answer, “I don’t know, I’ve never met the man.” There ya have it. Compare that with the headline and the fact that it was highlighted on a newspaper’s front page.
Reuters, that great objective news service that refuses to call terrorists, terrorists.
-- The left is so pathetic…
On the front page of one of Japan’s English newspaper’s was a blurb noting a Reuters article deeper in the paper.
The Headline; “Rice Says She Doesn’t Know If N. Korea’s Kim Is Sane.” The article itself is just another rehash of things that have been said by Bush and members of his administration about the worst dictatorship on the planet. The message in these brief reminder articles is ultimately that Bush is egging the North Korean dictator on with provocative speech. (The actual article I had read in Japan's Daily Yomiuri was longer than the brief one I was able to find and post in the link above).
The utterly insane hyperbole in this article is it’s headline vs. the reality of what actually transpired. Rice had simply been asked in an interview if she believed Kim Jong Il was sane. Her answer, “I don’t know, I’ve never met the man.” There ya have it. Compare that with the headline and the fact that it was highlighted on a newspaper’s front page.
Reuters, that great objective news service that refuses to call terrorists, terrorists.
-- The left is so pathetic…
