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ABC News Radio Silent on Bush-Bash at King Service

Bias by omission

- February 2006 -

 

Today's (Tuesday February 7, 2006) tasteless anti-Bush digs at Coretta Scott King's memorial service by Rev. Joseph Lowery and Jimmy Carter, a former President (!), are certainly newsworthy, but one place you didn't here about them was during the 5 pm PST (8 pm EST) headlines on ABC News Radio. Instead, the announcers highlighted the fact that several Atlanta schools had the day off to make the day "educational."

It looks like additional education was delivered today through a lesson in classic media bias-by-omission.