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Two days ago I posted about ABC's effort to find a military funeral taking place on Inauguration Day for a casualty from Iraq, presumably to "balance" the coverage of George Bush and his speech. Their web site invited anyone who knew of such a funeral to send the information to ABC News -- they even provided a web form for submission (and Doc Weasel has it better here) -- so that they could exploit the death in order to somehow shame Bush on his inauguration. After Power Line and I wrote about this and the blogosphere erupted into protest, the...

Here is another message I strongly urge FReepers to send to the FCC, regarding the Mark Halperin memo.  We need to use this between-election-cycle lull to take out the garbage in the MSM.Please take a few moments to send the following email to the Federal Communications Commission at: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov; fccinfo@fcc.govOr, CLICK HERE to generate a pre-addressed email.  You can cut-and-paste the message below into your email, or you can draft your own: Subject: FCC Violation: Halperin MemoDear Chairman Powell,I am writing to urge the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding an official memo drafted and distributed to ABC...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | MEETUP | C-LOG | ISSUES townhall.comPrinter-friendly versionLiberal media bias: here's the proofPaul Greenberg (back to web version) | Send October 22, 2004Folks know what Liberal Media Bias is. Even those who deny it have to know what the rest of us are talking about. Anybody can read it between the lines, see it on CBS (also ABC and NBC), hear it on NPR, and almost feel it, it's so thick at times. Like an oil slick over the news, L.M.B. permeates American journalism's elite.But defining Liberal Media Bias isn't easy. Because...

[snip] But does the DNC really want to open a can of worms over what can be aired under the guise of news? After all, many news groups surely would fail such a test, their news coverage rendered no more than "in-kind" contributions to their favored candidates. * Last month, CBS News ran a report claiming that President Bush shirked his Air National Guard duty, relying in large part on documents that were later revealed to be almost certainly forged. * This month, ABC News political director Mark Halperin virtually ordered his staff to take a pro-Kerry tilt in their...

We all know about the Mark Halperin memo. To refresh, a little while ago, Halperin, ABC News' political director, wrote: It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave I do not want to set off (sp?) and endless colloquy that none of us have time for today - nor do I want to stifle one. Please respond if you feel you can advance the discussion. The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman on the web both make the same point today: the current...

TO THINK I ONCE RESPECTED THE NOTE... [10/15 12:21 PM] We all know about the Mark Halperin memo. To refresh, a little while ago, Halperin, ABC News' political director, wrote: It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave I do not want to set off (sp?) and endless colloquy that none of us have time for today - nor do I want to stifle one. Please respond if you feel you can advance the discussion. The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman on...

Seemingly in response to Mark Halperin’s Call to Arms to get John Kerry elected, Ted Koppell went on the offensive on Thursday against the Swiftboat Vets in an attempt to discredit their claims that John Kerry embellished his war record to seek medals. Koppell focused on just one incident where he felt he had good evidence to directly contradict the Swiftboat Vets claims. Unfortunately for Koppell, the “evidence” he cited was testimony from Vietnamese peasants given under the watchful gaze of Communist Government minders. I don’t know if Mr. Koppell has ever been in such a situation himself, but I...

Excerpted... Contrast the way J&J handled the Tylenol crisis with the way CBS is handling the Rathergate/Memogate crisis. In case, you’ve been living in a hole, CBS aired a story featuring documents purportedly from the Texas Guard that were damaging to President Bush. It took very little time for the documents to be shown to be obvious forgeries, and sloppy ones at that. It seems pretty clear they were typed using Microsoft Word and printed to Adobe Acrobat, something not exactly available in the early 1970s. As a news organization, CBS found itself in a box. Either they admit to...

IS THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA BIASED against conservatives? Dan Rather remains in the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News despite his involvement in recent news stories based on dishonest reporting, fabricated documents and even Internet gossip falsely alleging that President George W. Bush secretly intends to begin the military conscription of students. These stories were obviously designed to damage Mr. Bush in the final weeks before a national election. And now ABC News has left in place its Political Director Mark Halperin. ABC has done this despite the network’s acknowledgement that Halperin wrote a memo that to many seems to...

Fifteen minutes before the second televised Presidential debate, on the night of Friday, Oct. 8, the stoic voice of anchor Brit Hume came over the Fox News Channel’s control-room intercom. "Do you know about this Mark Halperin memo?" he asked the room full of producers, who were hunched over the dials and standing before a tall bank of flickering TV screens. "Can we talk about it on the air? It’s on Drudge. It’s all over Drudge." In a leaked memo, Mr. Halperin, the ABC News political director, had suggested that the network should be more critical of President Bush than...

IS THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA BIASED against conservatives? Dan Rather remains in the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News despite his involvement in recent news stories based on dishonest reporting, fabricated documents and even Internet gossip falsely alleging that President George W. Bush secretly intends to begin the military conscription of students. These stories were obviously designed to damage Mr. Bush in the final weeks before a national election. And now ABC News has left in place its Political Director Mark Halperin. ABC has done this despite the network’s acknowledgement that Halperin wrote a memo that to many seems to...

Smoking Gun at FOX News Yesterday, I released to an expectant world a smoking gun-memo from Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times. Today, I reveal to you another smoking gun, this memo from Bob Kaganoff, Political News Director, FOX News. Memo To FOX News Staff: It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave. I do not want to set off an endless colloquy that none of us have time for today, nor do I want to stifle one. Please respond if...

Three weeks before the election, ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin apparently doesn't think the campaign season is going too well. He thinks ABC News must help the electorate by sorting out the relevant facts from the spin; holding the liars accountable; and openly campaign for the election of John Kerry — stuff like that. Mr. Halperin issued these instructions to ABC News employees last week in a memo, which was subsequently leaked to Internet news-guru Matt Drudge just before Friday night's second presidential debate. ABC News' Charles Gibson, coincidentally, moderated the debate.

It’s been a tough slog for old media of late. CBS NEWS and Dan Rather were nabbed by the new media as they attempted to use fraudulent documents to harm the president’s re-election chances. NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw blasted the new media for pointing out the CBS smear job saying, “There's a political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS,” and adding “It's an attempt to demonize CBS news. It's a demagoguery unleashed on the Internet.” Dan Rather proved willing to even use fraudulent documents to help John Kerry. ABC NEWS Political Director Mark Halperin recently sent a memo...

October 10, 2004 -- ST. LOUIS — A top ABC News official yesterday said the network won't discipline its political director, Mark Halperin, for his memo urging ABC staffers to hold President Bush more "accountable" than John Kerry. The high-ranking ABC official said Halperin is a "straight shooter" and "there is no action that is going to be taken" against him for the memo.

CONTROVERSY HITS ABC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MARK HALPERIN... EXCLUSIVE DEVELOPING... An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff during coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush -- not to 'reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable'...

Laura Ingraham has exposed ABCnews' Mark Halprin efforts to back the sKerry campaing. http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive/asp

I received an email last night from National Review Online writer Michael Graham who told me that on Monday, he would discuss the Mark Halprein memo. I asked him last night if was going to talk about it during the post debate show. He responded "Monday not tonight". The Michael Graham show is from 9am to 11:45am. WMAL is the local abcnews network radio station in the Washington DC area. Listen live on realplayer at http://www.wmal.com/listenlive.asp

BOYCOTT DISNEY and Their Products, their sponsers, and the companys of their BOD, until they deal with Mark Halperin's BIAS; Let them know you won't be spending money at their theme parks, wont be watching ABC, won't be patronizing ABC's sponsers, etc. EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS TO THESE PEOPLE... THE DISNEY BOARD OF DIRECTORS michael.eisner@disney.com Cc: jean.scanlon@clorox.com, john.chen@sybase.com, monica.lozano@laopinion.com, leo.odonovan@mbna.com, gary.wilson@nwa.com, robert.a.iger@disney.com, george.mitchell@piperrudnick.com, jestrin@packetdesign.com, john.bryson@edisonintl.com

An internal memo written by ABC News director Mark Halperin admonishes his news staff not to "artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable" in the second Bush-Kerry presidential debate. The memo, dated the morning of the second Bush-Kerry debate, cites two articles critical of the Bush campaign (In New Attacks, Bush Pushes Limit on the Facts, by Adam Nagourney and Richard Stevenson, NYT, and Bush vs. the news, by Howard Fineman at MSNBC.) "The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done," Haperin wrote, referring to...