Sheila Astray's Redheaded Ramblings

"Bad news is legitimate"

Great interview with Bernard Goldberg over on CNN.

I haven't read his latest book, "Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite", but I thought "Bias" was a blisteringly good read. It pissed me OFF - and I was damn grateful that somebody out there, an insider no less, was SAYING it.

Anyway: great interview with Goldberg about the practice of banning the media from Dover Air Force Base.

One quote to excerpt:

I'm not one of those people who says there's too much bad news. I say, give us all the bad news you've got. When American soldiers are killed, put it on page one, lead the newscast with it, give us all the bad news you've got, then give us more bad news.

But then -- then -- give us the rest of the story. It's the only way we're going to know what's going on there. There's other stuff going on that's quite positive.

Now, journalists always say, "Well, we tend towards the negative. We don't tell you that the plane landed safely. We don't tell you that the First National Bank didn't get robbed." But you would have to be a moron not to know that most banks don't get robbed and most planes do land safely. How in the world are we supposed to know what's going on in Iraq unless they give us the whole story? That's called good journalism.