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The Dumbing Down of the Media |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Arnaud de Borchgrave |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,383 Words, 8,258 Characters |
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This article was first presented as an address at the twentieth World Media Conference, held February 20-22, 2003, in Washington, D.C.
After 56 years of journalism--it will be 57 next month--I’ve learned the hard way that before you criticize someone, you should walk about a mile in their shoes, because that way when you criticize them you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. H.L. Mencken’s characterization of journalists is still an evergreen; I love it. He said, “The only qualities for real success are rat-like cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability. The capacity to steal other people’s ideas and phrases is also invaluable.”
During most of the 1990s I watched in horror as editors and TV producers decided that the American public didn’t give a damn about foreign news and focuse...
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...illing to commit acts of suicide. But that 10 percent is 14 million people. If you extrapolate that throughout the Muslim world, and I’ve talked to most of the moderate leaders from Tunisia down to Oman in the Persian Gulf, they all give you roughly the same number, 1 percent. Well, that’s still a huge number when you think of 1.2 billion Muslims in the world.
© 2003 World Media Association
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