Sunday, September 01, 2002

Great Moments in Media Bias

Media Research Center CyberAlert shares this John Stossel report:

A holiday weekend video treat: How cable music channel VH1 turned booing of Senator Hillary Clinton into cheering.
Senator Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause. And that version is the permanent record VH1 put onto its DVD of the event.


I'm certain that VH1 would explain that they were intending to eliminate rancorous political partisanship from an event that should have been uniting and not divisive. How come, then, political unity is never a virture when it involves a conservative politician or cause, at which point we celebrate the strength of our country in its tolerance of disunity?

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