Re: USA Network News (was Today's LTAR)

["Terrence M. Wood" <terry_wood@prodigy.net>]

Dan, on the fct of reporting facts and not opinion we will forever agree!  I
find any news organization that wants to tell people what they think they
should be told, really biased.  That is why I read so many papers.  The most
biased is the Union Leader of NH, without doubt, they editorialize in every
story they write.  WMUR-TV under previous owners and news directors did the
same thing.  I prefer the news be given in a plain vanilla envelope, and let
me form my own opinions.

Terry
- -----Original Message-----
From: Dib9@aol.com <Dib9@aol.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; Jibguy@aol.com <Jibguy@aol.com>
Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 12:27 PM
Subject: USA Network News (was Today's LTAR)


>In a message dated 98-07-20 11:58:13 EDT, jibguy write:
>
><< Correct.   But in that case, stations were paid $$$$ by the networks to
air
> the spots. So many networks are just "spot distribution services in the
name
> on news."   -  In the case of USA, no payments to stations were made, to
my
> knowledge.  USA' s roster of stations, then (and likely still now) were
small
> market stations, and fringe larger-market stations.   WJIB was actually
its
> best affiliate.
> ---jibguy >>
>
>I worked at WOXO/WTBM and they run USA Radio Network News.  The network
also
>distributes some religous programming that is carried on WTME/WKTQ.  I
found
>USA Radio Network News to be the most blatantly biased news outlets that I
>have ever heard.  The newscasts definitely have a conservative bias.  I
assume
>this is a result of the fact that the network is carried by many Christian
>stations around the country.  The network actually had two feeds of the
>newscast.  The news was the same on both feeds but there was one feed with
>spots for Christain stations and one feed with spots for secular stations.
>
>I am sure that many of you will be surprised that I would complain about
about
>a newscast with a conservative bias, but I think all news should be
objective.
>There is plenty of room for opinions on the editorial pages or in talk
shows,
>but I think the trend for the news to provide "analysis" which is in fact
only
>opinion is a real problem.  I don't want to get into a debate about whether
>the media has a liberal, conservative, or corparate bias, but what I really
>dislike is the fact that the people producing news (print & broadcast)
think
>it is there job to tell us what we should think about the news instead of
just
>reporting the facts.
>
>Dan Billings
>Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>

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