6.29.07 – Journal Bias Revealed

Front Page: above the fold: “Family Awarded $54M in Death: Nursing Home ACCUSED of Failing To Help Woman” [emphasis added]

Please note, the jury did not just “accuse” the giant corporation (who routinely abused patients), the jury “FOUND THEM GUILTY.” This is not just a semantic difference; subtle media differences like this build the unfounded public perception that crazed juries are constantly rewarding undeserved people.

How else might this article have been headlined? How about, “Jury Hammers Sleazy Corporation Who Killed Elderly, Innocent Woman?”

Front Page: above the fold: “One Day, two miracles”

We all love fluff stories, and this one is heart-warming, but, really, a wife of a deceased soldier getting her car back and having a baby is, at best, a page two story UNLESS the Journal were to emphasize that the real and enduring tragedy here is the useless death of her husband.

Sadly, he, like so many who died in Vietnam, will go down in history as part of a war that merely added to the chaos of a region that has been chaotic for centuries, however this would never occur to the Journal, so steeped in right wing bias.