arstechnica.com— A vanguard of the new media says there's a lot to be learned from old media. The "fake neutrality" of the old media, however, is apparently not one of those things, according to Arianna Huffington.
Jun 24, 2008View in Crawl 4
In discussing coverage of the Iraq war, she pointed out that the media seems compelled to deliver two sides even when one of the "sides" is clearly wrong. She said that reporting two sides to that question is like going to a doctor and the doctor tells you that you have inoperable terminal brain cancer, but on the bright side, your ankle is just fine. That, she says, is not a "mixed diagnosis". And neither is progress in Iraq a mixed diagnosis. Great speech.
gary210Jun 24, 2008
In discussing coverage of the Iraq war, she pointed out that the media seems compelled to deliver two sides even when one of the "sides" is clearly wrong. She said that reporting two sides to that question is like going to a doctor and the doctor tells you that you have inoperable terminal brain cancer, but on the bright side, your ankle is just fine. That, she says, is not a "mixed diagnosis". And neither is progress in Iraq a mixed diagnosis. Great speech.