Here is a good story about the demise of news, or real news reporting. We have so many more sources now, and most people tend to get their news from sources they agree with, so ... they get a biased message and they do not get their own beliefs challenged by hearing the other side.
This story is by retired newsman Ted Kopell.
Here is the link to the story
Kopell wrote a pretty good article but the thing that really has News agencies on their heels and not there toes is the instant media!
ReplyDeleteThe I-reporters on CNN, the cell phone pictires or videos from people involved or who are present!
The shear volume of information on a real time basis makes for the editing and reporting of old news on the Major Media Networks! Cable programs that are all news all the time have the advantage.
The most interesting part of Todays media is that people around the world are still people. They have faces, feelings, needs and can be joyous/sad, victors/victims just like anyone else!
Just another example the we were made from the same mold or cut from the same cloth!
Any differences which are external are God made.
While the differences internal are manmade!
CNN this A.M. - From an article regarding the hearing of the ruling of the ban on Sharia Law in Okla. by a Federal Judge.
ReplyDelete"What this amendment is going to do is officially disfavor and condemn the Muslim community as being a threat to Oklahoma," Muneer Awad, executive director of CAIR's Oklahoma chapter and the lead plaintiff in the suit, said earlier this month. In addition, he said, the amendment would invalidate private documents, such as wills, that are written in compliance with Muslim law.
The amendment would require Oklahoma courts to "rely on federal and state law when deciding cases" and "forbids courts from considering or using" either international law or Islamic religious law, known as Sharia, which the amendment defined as being based on the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.
In bringing suit, CAIR argued that the amendment violates both the establishment and free-exercise clauses of the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom. Awad has said the amendment passed "under a campaign of fearmongering" about Islam.
The entire U.S. Muslim population is about 2.4 million -- less than 1 percent of the country, according to a 2009 survey by the nonprofit Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
But supporters said a New Jersey case, in which a judge refused to grant a restraining order against a Muslim man whose wife accused him of raping her repeatedly, made it necessary for Oklahoma to take action to keep Islamic law from being imposed there.
The New Jersey decision, in which the family court judge found the husband was abiding by his Muslim beliefs regarding spousal duties, was overruled by an appellate court.
But in automated phone messages in support of the amendment, former CIA Director and Oklahoma native James Woolsey warned that there was a "major campaign in Europe to impose Sharia law" and that Islamic law "is beginning to be cited in a few U.S courts."
By contrast here is another article from Sunday on CNN:
ReplyDeleteFrom Matiullah Mati for CNN:
An Afghan Christian, detained for months for allegedly converting to Christianity from Islam, could face trial as early as next week - and could face a potential death penalty, officials said Sunday.
Said Musa was arrested by Afghan Interior Ministry intelligence authorities near the German Embassy in Kabul because of the allegations, said Qamaruddin Shenwari, director of the Kabul courts' north zone. The exact date of his arrest is not known.
The case against Musa has not yet been finalized, said Mohammad Najim Hamidi, director of public security at Zone 3 of the Kabul courts. He could face trial next week if the case is prepared by then, Hamidi said. It was earlier thought Musa's trial would begin on Sunday.
The Afghan Constitution does not mention converting from one religion to another, so the judge will take Islamic law into account, officials said.
"According to Afghanistan's constitution, if there is no clear verdict as to whether an act is criminal or not in the penal code of the Afghan Constitution, then it would be referred to sharia law where the judge has an open hand in reaching a verdict," Shenwari said.
Under sharia law, converting from Islam to Christianity is punishable by death.
the reality is that there is no such thing as "unbiased" news. never has been, never will be. the only plus nowadays is that there is more outlets. i.e., we aren't stuck with the "big 3". seriously, no one is more biased than Couric, Olberman, Madcow, Stephanoplus, etc, ad nauseum. at least fox will call the white house on the carpet (or whoever) all the rest of 'em do is form a self appointed PAC.
ReplyDeletedoes any sane person want to say our local paper is "unbiased"? give me a break..
yea fox, rush, savage, hannity, imus...!!!