“The resignation of President Obama's green jobs 'czar,' Van Jones, might have come as a shock if you do not watch cable news,” FNC's Bret Baier observed at the top of his Monday night “Grapevine” segment. Of course, it would have been a surprise too if you rely on MSNBC. “In fact,” Baier continued, “the 'big three' evening newscasts and two of the nation's most-prominent newspapers barely covered the story.”
Baier proceeded to provide a day-by-day review, with “Fox Brainroom” credited for the information at the bottom of the accompanying on-screen graphics, an apparent reference to a FoxNews.com posting, “Most Major News Outlets Largely Ignore Van Jones Controversy,” which he summarized:
There was no mention of Jones by CBS, NBC, ABC, the Washington Post or the New York Times on Wednesday -- the night Jones' first issued an apology for past statements. The same was true on Thursday, although a Washington Post blog picked up the story. That night Jones again apologized for a slew of old remarks and the signing of that petition that alleged the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 attacks. ABC and NBC failed to cover the story on Friday after that, although CBS finally did....
Baier's rundown matched what NewsBusters has documented over the past several days (see links below).
NewsBusters posts which tracked in more detail the lack of coverage, as well as what the networks covered instead:
♦ From Sunday night: “'Republican Right's First Scalp,' Nets Portray Van Jones as Victim of Conservatives.”♦ From Sunday afternoon: “Nets Catch Up with Van Jones, Sure 'Sour Note' in 'Summer Squall' Won't 'Damage' Obama.”
♦ From Sunday morning: “NY Times Finally Picks Up Van Jones Story -- After He Resigns.”
♦ From Friday night, with an update on the lack of coverage on Saturday: “ABC & NBC Continue Van Jones Blackout, Instead Tout Obama's 'Transparency' and Rue Attacks on Him.”
♦ From Friday afternoon: “FNC Notes Double Standard on Radical Obama Advisor Van Jones.”
♦ From earlier Friday: “All Three Morning Shows Skip Any Reference to Radical Obama Czar and 9/11 Truthers.”
Baier's lead item on the Monday, September 7 Labor Day “Grapevine” segment on Special Report with Bret Baier:
The resignation of President Obama's green jobs "czar," Van Jones, might have come as a shock if you do not watch cable news. In fact, the "big three" evening newscasts and two of the nation's most-prominent newspapers barely covered the story.
There was no mention of Jones by CBS, NBC, ABC, the Washington Post or the New York Times on Wednesday — the night Jones' first issued an apology for past statements. The same was true on Thursday, although a Washington Post blog picked up the story. That night Jones again apologized for a slew of old remarks and the signing of that petition that alleged the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 attacks.
ABC and NBC failed to cover the story on Friday after that, although CBS finally did. There was no mention from the "big three" evening newscasts or the Times print edition Saturday. But the New York Times blog finally addressed the story as did the print edition of the Post.
On Sunday, the morning after Jones' middle-of-the-night resignation — it was too late for the papers -- but the three evening newscasts did file reports. The New York Times print edition finally ran its first mention of the story today on the lower-half of the front page.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Oh Dear! I is... I is.... I is verklempt agains. I... Really?
September 7, 2009 - 20:02 ET by JWFVan Jones is gone?.... You're kidding, right?... I..... But I..... But he was a national hero!
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Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
→ JWF
September 7, 2009 - 20:05 ET by Cool ArrowAnd a towering hero, to boot.
We will Barry you! - Russian prophecy
Next: Czarina Valerie
September 7, 2009 - 21:36 ET by marpelditto
Next: Czarina Valerie
September 7, 2009 - 21:34 ET by marpelNext: Czarina Valerie Jarrett
Talk amongst yourselves! I'll give you a topic:
September 7, 2009 - 20:55 ET by lsudolemiteThose green jobs Jones was in charge of were neither green nor actual jobs. Discuss.
Iso... Yeah but, yeah
September 7, 2009 - 21:17 ET by bigtimerIso...
Yeah but, yeah but...
That's what the SRM has been saying, why don't you know he has created millions of green jobs...yet they show zilch for proof after staing their pure BS.
'Go Green...Recycle Congress'
neither green nor actual
September 7, 2009 - 21:27 ET by jdlybrandCould these be the 'saved or created ' jobs Obama keeps talking about? What a great thing it would be for the economy. All those non-productive people on the government pay roll being funded by taxpayers with actual earned income. Sheer genius!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Weren't any and all Bush
September 7, 2009 - 20:07 ET by Mean Gene Dr. LoveWeren't any and all Bush appointee resignations happily hailed by the Old News as a breakdown in the Bush Doctrine or proof of the emptiness of conservative values (even though Bush was far from conservative)?
How does the Left keep any followers with such blatant contridictions in policies and actions?
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." --Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon," 1942
LOL
September 7, 2009 - 20:50 ET by 10ksnookerAnd you expect what from the near dead media?
Well, finally MSNBC is
September 7, 2009 - 20:09 ET by ThisnThatWell, finally MSNBC is going to cover it. Keith Olbermann is going to portray van jones as a national hero -- an intelligent national hero -- I mean, a beloved intelligent national hero -- er, a beloved intelligent national hero much maligned by the evil far-right-wing neocon republicans who are racist, hateful lemmings led by the devil himself -- glenn beck.
Then the newspaper editors will pick it up and tell us how unimportant van jones was, and the furor is a true example of why we need to curtail talk radio.
So, while Fox News and NB did a great job -- the MSM is going to show everyone how this was just another in the long line of centrist-bashing malarky.
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Actually it was Beck...and
September 7, 2009 - 20:09 ET by marpelActually it was Beck...and he talked about it on Fox first! Can't forget that, Fox News!
marpel... Beck did and
September 7, 2009 - 20:37 ET by bigtimermarpel...
Beck did and has done yeoman's work...and he's just started.
Thank goodness for Fox, radio, the internet...if we didn't have these venues we would be so screwed. ...and then some.
'Go Green...Recycle Congress'
Quitter?
September 7, 2009 - 20:18 ET by CiampinoGood comment here on the Van Jones resignation:
http://rightwingnews...
That's actually an excellent
September 7, 2009 - 20:58 ET by lsudolemiteThat's actually an excellent point. I'm sure the media will send dozens of reporters down to Oakland to investigate his motives.
Truth comes in only one
September 7, 2009 - 20:48 ET by 10ksnookerTruth comes in only one version, no matter how hard the Democrats to push theirs.
Brett Baier
September 7, 2009 - 21:15 ET by TeamcheeserSo, like, I turned on Fox News today for, like, you know, the very first time. And there was this dude, Brett Baier, on there and he was talking about -- get this -- Van Wilder!
Fox Rocks, dudes!
Jones
September 7, 2009 - 21:49 ET by svh83Van the man was going down and everyone knew it, in spite of the MSM blackout on the subject. Now if I'm running The NYT, The Wash Post, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc. I have to be thinking about this: A major Pres appointee gets exposed and embarrassed, causing his resignation, and it has nothing to do with my news organization. In fact we did not even mention it and yet everyone still knew about it. This shows how irrelevent the MSM is becoming.
"I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't look they're here to deliver...the mail". -NY
Van Jones hot-wired an eco-car and took it for a joy ride.
September 7, 2009 - 21:55 ET by Ted ClarkeOne of my favorite movies of all time is "Midnight Run" with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. A basic element of the movie is that De Niro's character -- a bounty hunter named Jack Walsh -- is forced by circumstances to hop from one mode of transportation to another, all in his single-minded effort to deliver a fugitive mafia accountant to his bail bondsman. His first attempt is to go by passenger jet. When that fails, he tries Amtrak. When that doesn't work, he borrows a car, hitchhikes, buys a truck with a Rolex, hops on a freight train hobo-style, hot-wires a pick-up, rides a crop-duster and even steals a police cruiser. Along the way, he assumes different identities ("Alonzo Mosley.....Alonzo.") and breaks a ton of laws, all of which are merely means to his single-minded end of delivering the accountant on time.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095631/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqijwrDkE-M
This reminds me of Van Jones (and Obama, of course). When he started out on the road to revolution, black militancy, overt hatred, camo-pants and steel-toed boots were the way to go. When that look didn't serve his purposes, he reinvented himself as an unthreatening, mainstream black. He got a Harvard degree. He hopped on the community organizing bandwagon. He went "green". And he did whatever was necessary to inch his way closer and closer to his single-minded goal of overthrowing the evil, capitalistic, greedy, racist "Amerikkka" run by the evil "whitey" with his jack-boots on the necks of the downtrodden.
That's why I don't buy for a second what any of these radical Leftists say about saving the environment or creating so-called "green jobs". If there is ever a conflict between their "love" for the Earth and their hatred for America, they will, without a doubt, choose hatred over "love" because that is the fuel that powers the engine of their single-minded agenda. Environmentalism is nothing more than a hot-wired eco-car that they took out for a joy ride. Once it his served its purpose, they'll ditch it in the woods and steal themselves a new set of wheels.
Ted... Right you
September 7, 2009 - 21:59 ET by bigtimerTed...
Right you are.
It is all about POWER, achieving their agenda any way necessary...come hell or high water.
...thank God and the American people... they are now faltering.
'Go Green...Recycle Congress'
Thanks Bigtimer!
September 7, 2009 - 22:23 ET by Ted ClarkeHey Bigtimer...
Right you are! That's it in a nutshell. It's all about power. They don't give one rat's a** about saving the planet. Environmentalism is their "Trojan Horse", pure and simple. The booting of Van Jones is huge. It's like when Sarah Palin wrote those two words, "death panels". Here we have the all-knowing and all-powerful Barrack Obama -- "The One" -- being rocked by a failed CNN pundit and an unemployed homemaker writing on her facebook page....both of whom are maligned as being morons of the first order. How do our friends on the Left deal with such realities? It's as if Tiger Woods were outplayed by a pair of Special Olympians -- and we all recall what "The One" had to say about those folks, don't we?
Anyway, thanks, Bigtimer, for responding to my post. I appreciate it. Take care.
Ted... No thanks
September 7, 2009 - 22:46 ET by bigtimerTed...
No thanks necessary friend...I appreciate you and your wisdom.
'Go Green...Recycle Congress'
Spread the word......The
September 7, 2009 - 22:11 ET by d1carterSpread the word......The MSM is officially dead.
The new Pravda will not stand.
The Big One?
September 7, 2009 - 22:36 ET by BarkerBaier's rundown matched what NewsBusters has documented over the past several days
NewsBusters is increasingly influential in this New Media Era.
Keep Up the Great Work.
Fair & Balanced...
September 8, 2009 - 10:00 ET by kengie* REPORT: Fox News' town hall coverage amplifies opponents of health care reform, ignores supporters..
* On Fox News, anti-reform voices drown out pro-reform ones 22-0
~ Incendiary town hall rhetoric highlighted by Fox
~ Substantive, pro-reform questions passed over.
...and FNC is against the Fairness Doctrine.
It's time to write to your congressman about this abuse!
→ Tango
September 8, 2009 - 10:05 ET by Cool ArrowCongressman?
Don't you mean congressman, congresswoman, or transgendered representative.
Didn't your dads raise you better than that?
Van Jones is a Quitter - FS
Very professional research job there, Kengie
September 8, 2009 - 10:22 ET by SickofLibsBut you left out the part where Fox's audience gets bigger every day.
→ SOL
September 8, 2009 - 10:26 ET by Cool ArrowNotice, in Tango's stat (22-0), he gives Kirsten Powers, Alan Colmes, and Geraldo Rivera the same mathematical weighting.
Zero.
Van Jones is a Quitter - FS
Cool:
September 8, 2009 - 10:41 ET by SickofLibsYes, it was not a very well reasoned cut-n-paste job, but that's our lil Kengie!
In another breaking 'report', deer overwhelmingly oppose deer-hunting.
media matters?
September 8, 2009 - 10:24 ET by katainkentkengie, your slip is showing
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yawn
September 8, 2009 - 10:27 ET by candanceLink or slink. And here's you a hint: lefty activist websites don't count as legitimate proof.
Kengie
September 8, 2009 - 10:28 ET by FeynmanFanYou make it seem like Fox is the only source of news in the country. How about all the newspapers and broadcast news organizations and other news outlets like CNN and MSNBC? Why don't you include information about their coverage of news events, too? Do they give equal time to both sides of the debate?
Try to be all-inclusive when you're talking about fairness in reporting, k? It might not support your position, but it'll show you're looking at the big picture instead of focusing on things you don't like.
"I support the President but not his policies" - Blonde