Pubdate: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 Source: Detroit Free Press (MI) Copyright: 1999 Detroit Free Press Contact: http://www.freep.com/ Forum: http://www.freep.com/webx/cgi-bin/WebX Author: Tom Miller related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n901.a09.html CHARACTER ASSASSINATION The media claim that it's the people's right to know. I call some of it character assassination, and you hide behind the First Amendment. In their zeal, the media forget other people's rights. Disinformation becomes a feeding frenzy. A lot of the voting public use the media to help make choices. But by using misinformation and disinformation instead of truth, people and issues become tainted. The media have anointed themselves judge and jury, and they feel that only they, as a group, have the intelligence to pick a party, president or whatever. I read all I can on candidates and issues. Now I have to question every source, word, innuendo and even the person who is informing me. It's sad, but I have serious misgivings about most of the media. Tom Miller Davison - --- MAP posted-by: Thunder