[LINK] digital television, Fairfax and impartial reporting

[David Mitchell]

Interesting to note, from today's Sydney Morning Herald, an article 
about digital tv pulled from the NY Times, but with a completely 
different headline and emphasis.

"In the US, television's revolution fails to fire" 
(http://www.smh.com.au/news/0101/09/bizcom/bizcom2.html).

Compare the headline to the SMH article with the original headline in 
the NY Times - "Sales Growing for Digital TV's" 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/business/08HDTV.html).

Same material, completely different headline emphasis.  This couldn't 
have anything to do with the push by Fairfax to enter the datacasting 
business could it?  Surely the Sydney Morning Herald is more 
impartial than that?  What, I hear them say, 'we have no vested 
interest here'.

Same old, same old.

dm
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David Mitchell
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