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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Slanted Sources in NewsHour and Nightline Kosovo Coverage A FAIR analysis of sources on ABC's Nightline and PBS's NewsHour during the first two weeks of the bombing of Yugoslavia found an abundance of representatives of the U.S. government and NATO, along with many other supporters of the NATO bombing. Opponents of the airstrikes received scant attention, however; in almost all stories, debate focused on whether or not NATO should supplement bombing with ground troops, while questions about the basic ethics and rationales of the bombing went largely unasked. FAIR's survey was based on a search of the Nexis database for stories on the war between March 25 and April 8, identifying both guests who were interviewed live and sources who spoke on taped segments. Sources were classified according to the institutions or groups they represented, and by the opinions they voiced on NATO's military involvement in Yugoslavia. Of 291 sources that appeared on the two shows during the study period, only 24--or 8 percent--were critics of the NATO airstrikes. Critics were 10 percent of sources on the NewsHour, and only 5 percent on Nightline. Only four critics appeared live as interview guests on the shows, 6 percent of all discussion guests. Just one critic appeared as a guest on Nightline during the entire two-week time period. The largest single source group, 45 percent, was composed of current or former U.S. government and military officials, NATO representatives and NATO troops. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2006 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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