media skew part tew

[chucK]

Guess which national news pages these two intro's came from:

 

number 1:

"Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House."

 

number 2:

"Cindy Sheehan, the grieving California mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, was arrested today while protesting the Iraq war outside the White House."

[ChrisT]

The first one is USA Today. THe second one didn't come up in Google - NYTimes?

 

Nice avatar chucK!

[olyclimber]

"I would like to say to Cindy Sheehan and her supporters don't be a group of unthinking lemmings. It's not pretty," said Mitzy Kenny of Ridgeley, W.Va., whose husband died in Iraq last year.

 

from now on, those that have a viewpoint that I do not share are "unthinking lemmings". If you disagree with me, it is obviously because you haven't thought it through.

[chucK]

number 1 was orignally spotted on the ABC news website. Now also spotted on USA Today, and Fox News.

 

number 2, the Washington Post.

 

It would be interesting to look at this story over the various news outlets and extend this categorizing them according to "using her son's death" versus "grieving mother".

 

There's probably some other good categorizers too.

 

 

edit add the Guardian and CBC to the "using her son's death" list.

 

LA Times and Village Voice have opted for a third characterization that doesn't involve a dead son, "Woman whose vigil galvanized .... etc."

Edited September 26, 2005 by chucK

[Dru]

Looting vs. finding

[chucK]

Found this in the Boston Globe:

 

"In the ballroom of a Holiday Inn on Capitol Hill, about 350 ''jurors" sipped coffee and polished off desserts as they watched a mock trial of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, former CIA chief George J. Tenet and US Attorney General Albert Gonzales. The men were accused of violating US law and the Geneva Convention in supporting torture."

 

 

This sounds exactly like JayB's style. You think his new job in Boston is writing for the Globe?

[bunglehead]

That is a cool avatar. That was crazy.

Go Galloping Gertie!

[murraysovereign]

add the Guardian and CBC to the "using her son's death" list.

 

Don't attribute much meaning to the CBC's use of that version of the story - they're on strike, so management is doing all the news work, which basically amounts to reprinting wire-service copy (in this case it's from AP) verbatim. They might just as easily have used the Village Voice story, or whichever other one came across the desk first.

[underworld]

a grieving mother

[slothrop]

What her motivations are is entirely beside the point. But it's what The Man wants you to keep talking about.