[lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:41:34 -0230
I'm not entirely sure the following observation is relevant, but I'll offer it
anyway. When I taught Journalism Ethics at a couple of community colleges north
of Toronto, over half of any given class would fail. Of course, the Director of
the Journalism programme would keep hauling me into his office until it became
clear either that I was not suitable as a teacher of his students or his
students were not suitable as my students. Guess which horn of the dilemma won
out?
Walter O.
MUN
Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Eric quotes:
>
> "When NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported Oct. 1 that some conservatives
> say that Sarah Palin is not ready for prime-time, that's marked in the
> negative column for McCain."
>
> I find this a curious understanding of 'balance'. How does a news
> agency deal with a political campaign that is struggling? Does it put
> a finger on the balance in order to create the illusion that all
> things are equal? I admit, I don't understand what balanced reporting
> would look like given the article Eric quotes, but I think I
> understand unbalanced reporting when I see it.
>
>
> Unbalanced in Indonesia,
>
> Phil Enns
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