roundtable: Re: TCI buying MacNeil-Lehrer

roundtable: Re: TCI buying MacNeil/Lehrer

Re: TCI buying MacNeil/Lehrer

Terry Dugas 813-598-9737 (DUGAST@mail.firn.edu)
Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:58:23 EST 

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:58:23 EST
From: Terry Dugas 813-598-9737 <DUGAST@mail.firn.edu>
Subject: Re: TCI buying MacNeil/Lehrer
In-Reply-To: <199501022105.NAA03683@igc2.igc.apc.org>
To: "roundtable@cni.org" <roundtable@cni.org>
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I believe the characterization of M/L coverage of health care as 
"one-sided" is mis-informed.  Through early December, the M/L program 
aired 78 reports on health care covering a wide variety of options 
and using a variety of reporting styles.  Two programs, on 2/8/94 
and 10/19/94, specifically discussed the Canadian single-payer plan.

A quick search did not turn up anything under the headings of Decatur 
or Caterpillar.

These searches only cover extended reports, not recaps of the day's 
top stories.  Additional information on health care or the labor 
struggle could have been in these summaries.

No news organization is perfect, and M/L has weaknesses which need to 
be addressed.  But I reject the notion that the M/L organization 
"controls" the news towards a particular ideological end.

A summary of each M/L report, along with summaries of other programs 
airing on your local PBS affiliate, can be researched in the Public 
File of your local station.

Terry Dugas
Southwest Florida Public Television
"Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try."
<dugast@mail.firn.edu>

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