Bias in the news media

I hope you have time to watch this at some point, because it touches on things that have been in the headlines quite a bit the last few years, but especially with controversies that run the gambit from late-night "talk" show hosts to the recent upheaval at CBS News. 

What we have here is William F. Buckley Jr.'s Firing Line from 1971: the title is "The News Twisters," the topic is media bias in the presentation of the news, and the guests are TV Guide's Edith Efron and CBS's Andrew Rooney. You probably recognize Efron from her many appearances in my "This Week in TV Guide" features, and Rooney was—and remains, even years after his death—one of television's ost quotable figures. The positions offered are fairly predictable. as one commentator offers, "the more things change, the more they stay the same," but it's no less interesting for all that. No matter how you feel about the issue, you should find this discussion enjoyable; it's one thing to read about this in context, but it's always fun to see it play out in real time, as it were, especially with two of the people we read (and read about) so much.

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