Posted on 10/29/2005 8:31:33 AM PDT by AliVeritas
As ABC, CBS, and NBC all dived into live coverage today to report the indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide Scooter Libby, this is not at all the way the networks covered indictments of cabinet officers in the Clinton years.
In September 1997, we reported in Media Watch that when former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was indicted on 39 counts, the networks aired a single evening news story. Three of the four networks -- ABC, CNN, and NBC -- underlined that the Smaltz inquiry had so far cost $9 million. None of them noted civil penalties originating from targets of Smaltz's inquiry amounted to more than $3.5 million. The next morning, CBS's morning show, called CBS This Morning, didn't even mention Espy's indictment. Months later, I noted in a Media Reality Check that on December 11, former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts for misleading the FBI about payoffs to a mistress, Linda Medlar. NBC Nightly News filed one story; ABC's World News Tonight gave it 18 seconds. CBS Evening News didn't arrive on the story until the next night, and gave it nine seconds, a fraction of the two minutes Dan Rather gave the nightly El Nino update, about the weather "giving a gentle lift to the monarch butterfly." The morning shows were worse: NBC's Today passed on two anchor briefs, and ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning ignored it.
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The Clintoon curruption was so pervasive and so bold the media could not bring itslef to cover the story.
If the MSM had told Americans the truth it would have destroyed the democrat party for an entire generation.
The Lamestream is now little more than the pathetic press release center for the Democrat National Committee.
It will be a pleasure to watch the Liddy defense team disembowel the Time Magazine husband of Hillary's chief of staff.
More people should Email articles like this along to people you know are liberals. I just have and really enjoy doing so. Every little bit helps to maybe just pull the blinders from their eyes, one article at a time.
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