Chris Matthews’ Panel on Torture: Americans Are Either Stupid or Obl
November 13th, 2005 1:00 PM
On NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show” this morning, the host’s panel members stated that the reason 55 percent of Americans surveyed in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll were comfortable with the way the CIA is treating captured terror suspects is because Americans either “don’t know the truth” or “don’t want to know what the specifics are.”The discussion was focused on torture issues raised…
NBC: Lack of “Government Affirmative Action Programs” Behind Rioti
November 8th, 2005 9:26 PM
ABC, CBS and NBC all ran stories Tuesday night explaining the “anger” behind the rioting in France by Muslim “youths,” but on the NBC Nightly News reporter Jim Maceda went so far as to specifically complain about how “immigrants are left to fend for themselves, with no government affirmative action programs.” Maceda did add how “even worse, the French economy is stagnant, with few new jobs being…
Newsweek Gives Chavez Quite a Stage to Voice Anti-Americanisms
September 25th, 2005 10:32 PM
In March 2003, in the midst of the lead-up to the war in Iraq, CBS’s Dan Rather sat down with Saddam Hussein to allow the Iraqi leader to present his side of the story to the American people. This week, Newsweek and Lally Weymouth gave one of the world’s foremost despots, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, a similar opportunity. The following is a sample of the exchange, with Weymouth's…
'Pallywood,' a Documentary of Staged Palestinian Violence and Media En
September 22nd, 2005 11:09 AM