tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458161926216714198.post3171518309620457471..comments2023-10-17T05:18:36.318-07:00Comments on <i>Watchdogs and Lapdogs</i>: Campaign Ads and Lies: Is the press doing enough?M. Deryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642995185292648416noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458161926216714198.post-33386937297050917022008-09-20T20:09:00.000-07:002008-09-20T20:09:00.000-07:00Here's Feldman's article:http://features.csmonitor...Here's Feldman's article:<BR/>http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/09/18/media-truth-squads-and-the-%E2%80%9908-campaign-any-impact/Audrey Tranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11233335263560962191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458161926216714198.post-71906123226488055002008-09-20T20:06:00.000-07:002008-09-20T20:06:00.000-07:00That's similar to Linda Feldman's reporting on tru...That's similar to Linda Feldman's reporting on truth squads. She questions how much impact journalists have when they try to correct misinformation. <BR/><BR/>According to a recent study, voters may cling even harder to their candidate's beliefs, if the media refutes that belief. One political science researcher framed it this way:<BR/><BR/>“The argument we make in the paper is that people are counterarguing in their heads,” says Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Duke University and one of the researchers. “They’re coming up with reasons to disagree with the factual claim, and actually convincing themselves more than they would have believed otherwise.”<BR/><BR/> <BR/>The reference to Goebbels opens up a huge turn on campaign ads. Who would think that our Have-it-your-way, free market media would operate so similarly to Nazi propagandists?Audrey Tranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11233335263560962191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458161926216714198.post-25039359563674668852008-09-16T19:58:00.000-07:002008-09-16T19:58:00.000-07:00Can't agree that the press doesn't sink its teeth ...Can't agree that the press doesn't sink its teeth into campaign ads. The Lehrer newshour usually trots out Annenberg's Kathleen Hall Jamieson to read the entrails of campaign ads, and the Times, at least, truth-squads them now and then. More to the point, I think McCain's calculus has more to do with the assumption that the right has been so effective, in recent years, in spreading the gospel of "liberal media bias" that GOP candidates can safely assume that when the hated New York Times---the Pravda on the Hudson, in conservative eyes---points out their errors of fact, the faithful will believe the candidate, not the "biased" media. File under Goebbels, Joseph/ "<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie" REL="nofollow">Big Lie</A>."M. Deryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09642995185292648416noreply@blogger.com