Some interesting articles (I didn't repost the ones I posted earlier) on fairness and accuracy in the Media and Reporting:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2006
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20061031/d_mediamix31.art.htm
http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/institutional.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050300865_pf.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/will-john-moody-be-forced_b_34162.html
http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/links.html


A funny one:
http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i1editorial.htm


>>>Hmmm, so you're basically saying that dragan who has been roaming accross the globe and jim are wrong as well. How much do you know about the foreign press in lets say brittain, france, Germany or any other eurpean country? If you do not how possibly could you come to that conclusion?
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>>To the extent that Dragan and Jim have trashed the American press in a general sense, yes, I disagree with them.
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>You can disagree, but then any claim saying that I'm the only one complaining about your press simply does not hold water.
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>>The only country you mention where I have spent any time was England, where I read the newspapers regularly and watched some BBC as well. The papers ranged from the very, very good -- the Times of London and the Telegraph (despite their conservative spin) -- to the very bad indeed. The Sun, anyone? The Mirror? I don't know about France and Germany and would be, well, talking out of my butt.
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>Well we are talking newspapers only.. I was talking about the media in general. So also like news channels in the US and journals up here. Also in depth analysis and infotainment documentaries. I'm sure there are good newsppapers in the US, but i really was not focussing on them exclusively.
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>>>Everytime I visit north america (Which I do frequently) and watch CNN, FOX and CBS, I laugh my but off, of what you call independed press. And free press? Think again, your press is more than ever regulated by the political parties. Your press has restrictions esspecially in reporting news from iraq. You know our press does report about american press. Does the american press report about european ???
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>>Please substantiate the claim that the U.S. press is regulated by political parties. Take all the time you like, we'll wait.
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>Comments on Bill clintons remarks at murdoch at his interview at fox ..... Why did he make them ??
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>>The runaway bride. That was a human interest story. It's not all hard news, you know. A woman -- happening to be photogenic -- takes off on the eve of her wedding. Sorry, that's a story. It gets our interest. I mention only in passing that when it turned out she had conconcted the whole kidnapping thing, that was reported as well.
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>Does it really have to be rehashed about every hour?? (it could have been more frequent than that actually)... isn't there more important news ??
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>>I'll make you a deal. If the leading Dutch newspaper has an English edition, I'll read it for a week and tell you what I think. I am not closeminded. Fair enough?
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>I don't think there is one with an english edition. And there is not one leading newspaper anyways there are several important ones. Regardless of that, I would not see how this would concince, you. You already expressed not beeing objective in this matter.
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>Walter,