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Friday, April 30, 2004
WE LIVE IN A POLITICAL
WORLD. Two good pieces at Mediachannel.org
on the controversy
over ABC's Nightline, on which Ted Koppel will read the names
of American soldiers killed in Iraq tonight.
Danny Schechter, noting Koppel's
credentials as an establishment conservative, writes,
"It is likely to embolden more critical journalism in the unbrave
patriotically correct world of US media."
Meanwhile, Timothy Karr
reports
that the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is protesting Koppel's
alleged politicization of the war in Iraq by refusing to run
Nightline on its eight ABC affiliates, makes 98 percent
of its political contributions to Republicans.
Politics is in the eye of the
beholder.
MEDIA LOG ON CNN. I'll be on
CNN's
Reliable Sources
this Sunday (11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) talking about media coverage of
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. I'm told I'll be on
with Boston Globe reporter Michael
Kranish, lead author of the
Globe Kerry bio, and National Review Online's Jonah
Goldberg.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
