Why Does Our Media Support Our Enemies
August 24th, 2005 9:50 AM
A front-page story concerning Iran in Tuesday’s Washington Post was clearly intended to thwart American efforts preventing that country from obtaining nuclear weapons, as well as to embarrass the Bush administration with more implications of faulty intelligence.In an article entitled “No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program”, Dafna Linzer states:Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in…
Network Firestorm Tuesday Night Over Pat Robertson
August 23rd, 2005 10:36 PM
Despite Pat Robertson's waning role in national politics, the broadcast and cable networks on Tuesday evening jumped on his Monday suggestion that Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated now in order to avoid a costly war later. All three broadcast network evening newscasts featured full stories, with ABC's World News Tonight making it the lead. Anchor Charles Gibson…
That's "MISTER" bin Laden to You
August 17th, 2005 5:16 PM
As Clay Waters points out in his previous posting, a New York Times article by Eric Lichtblau sheds some interesting light on warnings issued by the State Department to the Clinton administration back in 1996 concerning Osama bin Laden's move from the Sudan to Afghanistan:In what would prove a prescient warning, the State Department intelligence analysts said in a top-secret assessment on Mr.…
Two 9-11 Scoops by the Times -- Will the Networks Take Note
August 17th, 2005 4:18 PM
Two generally anti-Bush intelligence reporters, Eric Lichtblau and Philip Shenon, have important scoops in Wednesday's paper about anti-terrorist inaction on Clinton's watch. But will network news notice? First up is Lichtblau's "State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996," buried on A12: "State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Osama bin Laden's…
