Nature of the media beast: 2nd-last paragraph of “Fox Joins Duckworth in Stem Cell Support: Actor campaigns for fed funding of research,” S-T 10/25/06, p. 8
[Republican candidate] Roskam, at a campaign appearance Tuesday, said he strongly backs stem cell research — as long as cells derived from embryos aren’t used. He said research using other types of stem cells — those from adults or from umbilical cords — has resulted in treatments for dozens of illnesses. That’s a much better track record than embryonic stem cell research has so far achieved, he contended. [Question alert!] Duckworth and her supporters noted that embryonic stem cells have been known to medical science only since 1998 and that research has been stalled by a lack of federal funding
But there’s not time. The reporter and his editors, the whole damn newspaper, is on to the next thing. It’s why Rush L. calls them “drive-by.” However, there was time for a sidebar, “Limbaugh: Fox just acting sick in ad,” for which someone called a neurosurgeon (one neurosurgeon, enough for any man) at a major New York hospital who thought Rush L. was “ludicrous.” What? No call for anyone on the Roskam claim? No. Not time.
