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Joe Wilson: A Man On A Mission In A Media Vehicle
Robert Scheer writes for the LA Times: [Judith Miller] knew early on that Libby was using the media to punish former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV for exposing President Bush's false claim that Iraq sought nuclear material from the African nation of Niger.The words I want to examine here are "punish" and "false claim". If there was information given to a reporter, it wasn't to punish Joe…
Vanity Fair Excerpts Mary Mapes’ New Book Highlighting Rathergate
Mary Mapes, the former CBS News producer who became famous for her involvement in a “60 Minutes II” segment last year concerning President Bush’s involvement in the Air National Guard, had an excerpt of her upcoming book, “Truth and Duty,” printed in the December issue of Vanity Fair.An Editor and Publisher article published last evening stated the following:“Mapes writes that she had felt the…
Evening Shows Distort Alito’s Abortion Role, Peg Him as “Hardline
In covering on Monday night the nomination of appellate court judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, ABC and CBS distorted his role and position on the husband-notification abortion case and pegged him as a “staunch” or “hardline” conservative, but NBC managed to correctly describe his role in the abortion case and depicted him as “dependably conservative, though with an independent streak."…
CBS Correspondent Derides Alito Nomination with Sexual Term
At a morning briefing with reporters held by White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, CBS correspondent John Roberts, still trying to make a name for himself within the network famous for its liberalism, used a crude sexual term to describe the nomination of President Bush's Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.As reported by Matt Drudge, Roberts asked the following question: "So, Scott, you…