Sunday, April 20, 2008

Guilt by association

Waking up this morning to the news I couldn't help but notice that immediately after a report on the Pope's visit and most recent speech, there was an update on the ongoing fallout from the polygamist ordeal in Texas. If I am compiling news stories for a radio broadcast might I be able to ever-so-subtly jab at something I may think is opiate for the masses by simply putting them next to each other so as to cause the listener to think, "Good riddance, look at what religion does to the world..."?

In journalism, is there such a thing as silently critiquing one event by following it with a report of another ostensibly related event?

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