{"article":{"id":11703,"heading":"250+ scholars criticize post-S11 media coverage","author":"Melissa Wall","created":"2001-10-13 12:45:02","modified":"2013-11-10 23:38:33","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:38:33","article":"
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\n","contact":"melissa.a.wall@csun.edu","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"While the mainstream media is busy patting itself on the back for its coverage of the events following September 11, a group of communication scholars from around the world has criticized that coverage and issued a petition calling for \u201cmore responsible journalism.\u201d","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/10\/250__schol.txt","filesize":"17.0 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/10\/11703.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":12381,"heading":"Scholars criticize media","article":"Thanks for articulating my thoughts so clearly. I am appalled at the complete lack of objectivity surrounding this \"war\". Today, while sorting through some boxes, I found a newspaper from 1990, at about the time of the Gulf \"war\". It could've been today's paper. The sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, it seems.\r\n\r\nThat's not to say, however, that I feel that the Taliban or Osama Bin Laden are innocent. They have committed atrocious crimes and should be held accountable for them.\r\n\r\nI don't pretend to know what that accountability means. But I do feel as though I don't have enough information to stand 100% behind my government (or, for that matter, 100% against it). \r\n\r\nThe sins of the fathers are indeed visited on their sons and without some truth and objectivity, our government will pay for its assumption that the American public is too stupid to see through the sham that's passing as news.\r\n\r\nMy only complaint is that there's not a place for me to sign the petition. Remember, I am a thinking person, too. I don't need you to think for me.\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\n\r\nShelby Clark\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Shelby Clark","parent_id":11703,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-27 12:21:45","modified":"2001-10-27 13:00:01","fileurl":""}]}