Xan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:19 am
Issues, Etc is a good one for me.
Of the most general interest here I think would be the regular interviews with Terry Mattingly, who is an old-school journalist and always has a good perspective on the news that we're hearing. He'll critique coverage, going through questions that should be asked, what's being left out, etc. He'll explain where the reporters are coming from on different issues and how that affects things. Sometimes he says they're doing things wrong and sometimes he says they're doing things right.
https://issuesetc.org/tag/terry-mattingly/
A recent one was the case of the cross-dressing Alabama mayor, where the media narrative was that the guy was outed by a conservative website because conservatives like to persecute sexual minorities. It turns out that the website did pretty much everything right, IIRC because multiple women had accused the mayor of using their names and likenesses inappropriately, so you have a criminal accusation against a public figure which can't be discussed without revealing the cross-dressing. They even talked to the guy before publishing to get his side of the story.
Finished this one:
https://issuesetc.org/2023/11/01/3051-t ... -11-01-23/
3051. New York Times Coverage of the Israel-Hamas War – Terry Mattingly, 11/01/23
He again used the word "very" several times plus told us what a country "feels" rather than what it "believes".
Also, the usual beginning hodge-podge and the middle interrupting commercials / promos.
Getting back to the beginning hodge-podge .. can anyone cite the Bible verse that proclaims November 1st as "All Saints Day". As I was just writing that it was repeated after the conclusion of the interview.
Mattingly reveals an obvious bias here towards his belief of the power of the media and specifically his own influence writing headlines. His belief in his and media's overall influence is quite overblown.
Give this one another B.
