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...difference between the Humane Society and PETA in terms of tactics and tone and perhaps even some philosophy. But I give PETA credit for moving the needle on a number of matters, including animal testing. We feel like we're positioned exactly where we want to be in the mainstream of American society...
...Mecca, has now supposedly interviewed Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother to prove that the Democratic nominee is not a natural-born citizen. The interview is allegedly attached as an affidavit to a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit that is trying to stop this election - a lawsuit that, McRae says, the mainstream media is ignoring but certain blogs just can't resist. But as even one commenter on the "Citizen Wells" blog notes, the whole thing "does have a Nigerian email scam feel to it." McRae may have succeeded in getting the Shanksville 9/11 memorial design modified, if not eliminated but this...
...years before moving in 1996 to FOX, where he has been the network's elder statesman and a leading proponent of its "fair and balanced" credo. Hume spoke with TIME about stamping out bias, what's next for the GOP and the differences between FOX and other mainstream media outlets...
...someone who spent 23 years at ABC and then went to FOX News when it was a nascent operation, you've been a major part of both a mainstream media outlet - perceived by many as having a liberal bias - and then at a cable powerhouse perceived by many to have a conservative bias. Behind the scenes, is there a fundamentally different approach to news gathering...
There's a real difference. The mainstream media have a fairly consistent set of views about a range issues: abortion, the environment, taxes, use of military force and so on. It's not that they're obsessed with them or motivated by those views to do journalism. [But] there is a pretty broad consensus. And it leads to a [homogenous] way of looking at the world. At ABC, I often saw that there were alternative ways to do stories that were every bit as newsworthy. When I proposed them, I didn't get any resistance. It's just that nobody...