Wednesday, July 28, 2004

MEDIA WATCH

Boston Globe: ASKING FOR TROUBLE

"Fear has increased in every newsroom in America," said CBS's Dan
Rather during a discussion of "The Press and the Election" at
Harvard University. That's fear of "a torrent of e-mails and phone
calls" complaining about media coverage of controversial issues.
Rather said journalists might think, "when you run this story,
you're asking for trouble. ... Why run it?" NBC's Tom Brokaw
mentioned the Media Research Center and said conservatives "feel
they have to go to war against the networks every day." ABC's Peter
Jennings added, "I hear more about conservative concerns than I
have in the past. ... I feel the presence of anger all the time."

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