My friend Diane wondered why there was no coverage of people protesting against illegal aliens, only coverage of people marching in support of illegal aliens. The answer is simple: media bias. The media tells you what it thinks you should know.
There was an amazing example of media bias in the newspaper yesterday. The large headline on the front page of the paper edition read "Hungry forced to move". A person reading those words would picture an evil landlord forcibly evicting a poor, hungry family. The real story is that a mission to feed the homeless in an Asheville park has become so large, they have outgrown their space and must find larger quarters. The headline was deliberately worded in an inflammatory manner, which is common in this paper. It should have been worded, "Mission to feed the homeless requires more space".
Here is the story in the online edition:
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060506/NEWS01/60505062/1001/archives
This is yet another reason why newspaper readership has declined, and why more people use the Internet to get their news.
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