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Networks Yawn at Taped Saddam Predicting Terror
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Objectivity shows up in the funniest places on TV news. Take, for example, the latest taped message from Osama bin Laden in which the architect of September 11 spits in America's face by comparing the "criminality" of the American military to that of Saddam Hussein. The TV networks repeated this robotically, without comment. Far be it from them to pass judgment.
On the morning shows, they merely passed along Osama's message of moral equivalence, reading it with no attempt to rebut it, rethink it or reject it. On the evening news, Osama's Uncle-Sam-same-as-Saddam message wasn't treated as a stinging lie about our forces. It was, instead, forced through the same well-worn storyline: …
