You wrote:  Please, if you have found a newspaper or news program that is
very conscientious and unbiased, please let me know.

I don't that  there is one in the world that is unbiased.  Thus, my
previous comment that you must gather information from a wide variety of
sources, then draw your own conclusions.  Once done, you must always remain
open to new information that might alter your conclusions.

That, by-the-way, it the classic definition of "liberal."  And that is why
liberals always appear to be wishy-washy and never able to arrive at any
absolute conclusions.

I happen to be one of them and cannot stand reactionary conservatives who
run around like Henny-Penny everytime they encounter something new or
different, screaming, figuratively, that the sky is falling.

By-the way, I do agree that we should not be held accountable for our
grammatical and spelling errors in these messages.  I usually respond
quickly, without running spell-check or grammatic and know my messages
include terrible errors.  I expect the readers on this list to understand.


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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas  77515
(409) 864-1208
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From:   Heidi Carroll[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, February 08, 1999 8:29 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Was: Your TOP EVENT Now: news

I do apologize for the errors in my posting about newspapers.
Perhaps I am using this listserv incorrectly, but, to me, this list is a
both an electronic bulletin board and an electronic conversation.  Often
messages read like classified ads or a conversation that includes local
dialects, however crude.  We aren't writing any great works of art that
will be published, we are merely speaking, most often informally, to one
another.  I would like think that the majority of people contributing to
this list do not have the time to edit their messages two or three times
before posting them.  Also, I interpret the blunders found in messages
as emotion.  They are just as important to the message because they hint
to emotions such as anger or frustration.  But from journalists, who
write for a living and have editors to check their work, I expect more!
Perhaps I expect too much by asking professional writers to write
professionally.
Please, if you have found a newspaper or news program that is very
conscientious and unbiased, please let me know.  I would gladly read
such a paper or watch such a program.  Unfortunately, I have not found
that in my local newspapers.

I won't comment of the fleeing comment other than to say that 1.  having
worked in law enforcement, I am very aware of criminal code, and
2. the victim, a criminal running from the law, was putting both the
police officer and the public in harms way and the officer did what he
felt was necessary to protect himself and the public.

Finally, I don't believe everything I read, however, when I read a
newspaper, I expect an account of the facts so that I can make my own
informed opinion.  I don't want to know what the journalist thinks.  If
I want to know that, I'll open to the editorial page.

H. Carroll


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