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Reporter: Media should help set national agenda
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"I would argue the electronic and print media have more power than
they did 50 years ago, but they turn over their space and time to
events initiated by government officials and their critics," Pincus [Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus]
told a lunchtime crowd Monday at the University of Arkansas Clinton
School of Public Service in Little Rock.
In contrast to the
partisan press of the past, he said, most journalists neither desire
nor believe that they can help shape government themselves.
"I believe this is a threat to democracy," he said. <snip>
An avowed Democrat, Pincus praised the conservative-leaning Rupert
Murdoch for building a media empire that promotes a certain point of
view.
"Fox [News, a Murdoch property ] gains viewers over a presumably neutral CNN partly because people want opinions," he said.
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