Re: [Swprograms] CPB meddling

["Ira Holmes" <iholmes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think facts are objective, but the judgment we use in selecting the 
"important" facts is subjective.  Out of this process comes "truth" (not 
Truth) and meaning.

Ira Holmes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] CPB meddling


>I will chime in for a few seconds here...
>
> The issue isn't so much facts but how they're edited, analyzed and
> reported.  That constitutes the "value added" of journalism.  That, of
> course, is where bias can enter in the process.
>
> Programming just with facts is boring.  Remember the BBCWS' "
> Newsdesk" program?  That was a half-hour of dispatches and no
> analysis.  Boring.
>
> By comparison, the "24 Hours" program was all about the analysis of
> the day's news.
>
> Nowadays, the reporting-with-analysis is combined in Newshour, World 
> Today, etc.
>
> It seems the lightning rod for this "facts" debate nowadays is Bill 
> Moyers.
>
> I'm like Joe Buch.  I'd rather see the PBS tell the CPB to go pound
> sand and let the viewers vote with their feet or their pocketbooks.
> Or, if I were PBS, I'd take the issue to the viewers and raise the
> spectre of the license fee to keep Congress out of its face.  Ditto
> the VOA.
>
> Now ducking out...
>
> RDC
>
> On 5/4/05, John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi David:
>>
>> Well, to me, facts are not liberal or conservative.
>
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