>>>If you/we don't watch or listen to the 'one sided' (dare I say 'propaganda) stations, their ratings will diminish and with it, advertising revenue. Nothing causes change more than a good kick in the wallet. :-)
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>>Fortunately, Canadians don't have to worry about propaganda in their news, it's against the law - much to Fox's chagrin. Unfortunately, we Americans have always had (at least in print) slanted news reports. Which way it slanted depended on who owned the newspaper or TV station. It's just gotten worse in the last 20 years.
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>It's gotten a lot worse. The game has changed completely. You may know that being an ink stained wretch for some newspaper was my aspiration. (Well, other than getting into Janice _____'s pants ;-) ) It was an still considered an honorable profession and I started out as a journalism major. "To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" -- that was the credo. Now it's more like comfort the comfortable or throw bombs at them, one or the other. We have lost something in our descent from ordinary civility,


'To comfort the comfortable and afflict afflicted' ?