Posted on 05/05/2003 7:40:18 PM PDT by Cathryn Crawford
More Bias?
More and more reporters are stepping out to disclose bias in the press. First was CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran of the network until being forced off the air, charging that bias at the big-three network is so obvious and comes so naturally to media luminaries such as Dan Rather that "it's hardly worth discussing anymore." Oh, yes, it is worth discussing, says Peter Collins, for nine years ABC News' correspondent in Central America, reporting for "World News Tonight" and "Nightline." Recently retired from journalism and feeling "liberated," Mr. Collins charges that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings manipulated news scripts to praise the former Soviet-backed Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Telling his story to CNSNews.com, Mr. Collins charges that Mr. Jennings dictated changes in his television script to sing the praises of the Sandinista government's "new, unselfish society," for reducing illiteracy and "launch[ing] the biggest land reform in Central America." Mr. Jennings "took a piece that I had written about the 10th anniversary of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua [in 1989] and first asked his producer to correct it for me and then he himself called me up in Managua and essentially dictated to me what I should say," Mr. Collins says. "Basically what Mr. Jennings wanted was for me to make a favorable pronouncement about the 10 years of the Sandinista revolution, and he called me up, massaged my script in a way that I no longer recognized it." ABC News publicist Cathie Levine told CNSNews.com that neither Mr. Jennings nor the network had anything to say about it.
Not too long ago, I was watching a program about where famous people got their start. Jennings was featured, and did he start out sleuthing stories about local corruption and graft? HELL NO!
Jennings got his start in showbiz (and that's what TV news really is - don't let 'em fool you) as a host for a children's puppet show on Canadian TV!
Can you believe it? The guy who now goes out of his way to present his leftist, anti-American views as the Lord's Gospel is nothing more than a charlatan in pancake makeup.
And Disney (ABC's parent company, damn their black souls) wonders why their evening news show's ratings are in the toilet.
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