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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 94
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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WHITEWATER BLACKOUT
Is The Media Missing The Story?
[From a *700 Club* Fact Sheet, based on a *700 Club* Newswatch
feature broadcast on September 28, 1994.]
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The Washington press corps is famous for investigating White
House "scandals" with the ferocity of a pit-bull. But regarding
the most recent "scandal" called "Whitewater," many are
wondering: has the pit-bull lost its bite?
While some have complained of a media feeding frenzy over
Whitewater, Dr. Robert Lichter's Center for Media and Public
Affairs reported earlier this year that media coverage of
Whitewater has been lacking.
Prior to the Senate hearings on the subject, Whitewater had
received just one-third the coverage Watergate received at a
similar point in that episode.
Why have reporters been seemingly slow to thoroughly cover a
story of political intrigue that first came to the surface at the
height of the 1992 presidential campaign?
"It snuck under the national press' radar screen," says Stephen
Hess, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hess blames the
complicated nature of Whitewater for the media's slow and
inadequate coverage.
L. Brent Bozell of the conservative Media Research Center does
not accept Hess' explanation. "[Whitewater] is very complicated,
but guess what: so was Watergate and so was Iran-Contra... and so
were a bunch of other things."
>From November 1, 1993, to August 15, 1994, Lichter's Center for
Media & Public Affairs monitored media coverage of the major
players in scandals surrounding the Clintons, classifying
coverage as either "positive" or "negative." The results show a
clear media bias in favor of the Clintons and against Clinton
opponents: Bill Clinton, split at 49 percent positive; Hillary
Clinton, 61 percent positive; Lloyd Cutler, 87 percent positive.
Roger Altman was the only administration figure to receive
overwhelmingly bad press (70 percent negative).
Critics of Clinton received consistently negative coverage:
Congressman Jim Leach (R-IA), 60 percent negative; Senator Bob
Dole (R-KS), 62 percent negative; Paula Jones, 67 percent
negative; Arkansas state troopers, 77 percent negative; Kenneth
Starr, 52 percent negative.
Members of the foreign media have been more willing than their
American counterparts to cover Whitewater. The London
*Economist*, and *Sunday Telegraph* both have published accounts
related to Whitewater that received little coverage in the
American media.
The *Economist's* Christopher Wood recently wrote a critique in
*The Wall Street Journal* of the American press' coverage of
Whitewater. He said he was "a little puzzled by my colleagues in
the American media" for what he called the "genteel distance" the
press has kept between itself and the strange events in Arkansas.
He concluded by calling the American media's failure in this
story "extraordinary."
In a recent *Wall Street Journal-NBC News* survey, just one in
five Americans said the media are very or mostly honest. The
media's seeming reluctance to delve deeply into the waters of
Whitewater has only enhanced charges of media bias, making
increasing numbers of Americans suspicious of both their
president and their press.
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