In the year 2009, are journalists seeking control over the message to their viewership or listening audience rather than reporting the news?
Another one bites the dust. (click here)
...The longest-running anchor on CNN's air, Dobbs was one of the nation's leading financial journalists before turning his program in a more opinionated direction. His persistent advocacy against illegal immigration angered many....
It would be interesting if all the news was reported, rather than just the chosen topic.
Sympathy for Gordon Brown in row over misspelled letter of condolence (click here)
Nov 11 2009 By Magnus Gardham
GORDON BROWN bared his soul yesterday in a bid to quash the most tawdry allegations yet thrown at him.
The Prime Minister said he "felt the pain" of grieving parents after losing his baby daughter Jennifer in 2002.
Brown has always been loath to talk about his private suffering.
But he made the comment at his monthly press briefing after a second day of astonishing personal attacks led by the Sun newspaper.
They were faithfully followed up by feckless BBC reporters who were lambasted on their own website for propagating the scandal....
An official letter to a grieving parent isn't a place for the inconsideration of misspelling. The loss of a soldier and a son should require more than a 'fast note' to the postmaster.
