What media bias? CBS news to offer 'solutions'

By Gary Levin, USA TODAY

Even Katie Couric, no stranger to celebrity, is surprised at all the
press hoopla over her move to anchor of The CBS Evening News Sept. 5.
Do viewers care? "I don't think they're nearly as interested as you all
are," she told a crowd of TV critics here Sunday. "I'm really excited to

MS...

I don't want it slanted either way. I want both sides of an issue, then
I'll draw my own conclusion. That freedom doesn't exist.

videonovels...

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Even the Ed Murrors and Cronkites had their own personal biases which
reflected what facts they thought "worth sharing" and what facts they
tossed away, never to be aired.

The "unbiased" paradigm is a myth that has never existed. EVERYONE
(even the bbc) has some kind of left-or-right-leaning bias.

Take global warming as an example. The liberal media has it so slanted
that the public is actually believing them. They need to show the other
evidence that weather cycles over time do exist and that global warming
isn't automatically the reason for everything bad.

z...

Ah, the theory that the public is not exposed to the facts, and ***only
you*** are bright enough to see through the deception.

suzee...

Ah yes. My bf is a geologist/paleontologist which meant he's studied the
Ice Ages and beyond. He said that even though we're warmer than 400-500
years ago, the earth was going through a `mini Ice Age' and that we're
still 2 degrees cooler than some inter-glacial periods. The dinosaurs
lived in somewhat tropical climates and their remains have been found in
North America, not the tropics as we know them today.

Let the public think!

suzee...

Oh dear.

stop talking about this and start doing the job."

But the promotional campaign for the former Today anchor is only just
beginning. In the midst of a six-city blitz of "town meetings" that wraps
up Monday in San Francisco, Couric says "the whole week was extremely
instructional" and "will inform the way we approach the news come
September."

Viewers told her they want more perspective and "a better understanding
of the ramifications of the news," she says. "I got the distinct sense
they want us to go a little bit deeper" with historical background and
"how is this relevant to their lives. (And) we heard from many people the
news is just too depressing. Obviously, we can't sugar-coat what's going
on, but there are cases where we can be more solution-oriented."

[It's not your job to offer solutions, you twit!]