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ABC's red badge of courage...

RED -- As in RED China? Red as in ALL communist flags? Red as in the blood of Americans who have suffered and died for the puke like these supposed reporters?

[tongue-tied]

What was deemed “negative?” The example given was a quote from an Iraqi plaintively asking ABC’s John Donvan why the U.S. forces weren’t more helpful to his wife and children, who were without food and medicine. How about "quagmire" and "apparently behind schedule" and several others I remember being espoused as an unbiased reporting of facts.

[Cicero]

Considering that the Columbia School of Journalism is at the very epicenter of corrupt leftist distortion of the news in this country, it's unlikely that one might expect an unbiased discussion of left wing bias in the Columbia Journalism Review.

These people wouldn't understand what anti-Catholic bigotry was if you hit them over the head with it, since they are anti-Catholic bigots themselves. Nor would they understand what left-wing bias was, because they are too biased themselves.

The Sulzberger family, Columbia University, The New York Times, and the left-wing media establishment are like one big, inbred incestuous family.

[weegee]

The findings then: press coverage is anti-Catholic.

Certainly the coverage seemed "antiCatholic Church". I wouldn't say that it was down on anyone who was a Catholic (the way discrimination would be).

There were/are problems within the Catholic Church hierarchy that lead to coverups and attempts to defuse the issue rather than seek punishment of the molestors and justice for the victims.

There are also such crimes going on at schools and at other churches.

Planned Parenthood has fought attempts to require abortion providers to provide police with a report when a girl comes to them for an abortion caused by molestation/rape. They cover up a crime too.

The UN has quite a number of sex scandals (UN advisors raping minors here and elsewhere and then fleeing before the cases come to trial, juvenile prostitution charges in wartorn areas,...).

Considering all the molestation going on, the media dug their fangs into one target; the Catholic Church. Maybe they went against them for the Pope and Mother Theresa's stance against abortion, who knows.

[Sloth]

...embarks on a radical preemptive war policy that is opposed by most of the world, the journalist’s job is to make sure that dissent and debate about that policy and its implementation are fully aired. This war was sold on the idea that the U.S. should strike first before Iraq handed around weapons of mass destruction to al Qaeda terrorists, that Saddam was a global terrorist, not just a regional thug. But it looks as if Iraq had no WMD to pass out even if it had been inclined to do so. It also becomes clearer every day how terribly botched was postwar planning.

Yes, the people who wrote these words are highly competent to judge bias regarding Iraq. < /sarcasm >

[weegee]

In addition, the center points out that ABC “gave voice to the complaint that the U.S. was handling civil unrest poorly on fourteen occasions” in the final days of the war, whereas “that viewpoint never appeared on Fox.” Never appeared.

A lot of the furor over "civil unrest" could be tied to since discredited reports of "looting" of Iraq's museums.

[weegee]

This war was sold on the idea that the U.S. should strike first before Iraq handed around weapons of mass destruction to al Qaeda terrorists, that Saddam was a global terrorist, not just a regional thug.

Denial that Saddam sponsored terrorism? Okay...

Here's what the previous President had to say in 2003 about Saddam and future administrations:

An Interview With Bill Clinton (Atlantic Monthly)

We knew when we did the bombing in '98 that we hit all the known or suspected sites based on the intelligence we had, from all the people that were doing that work there. We knew at the time that we had set his program back a couple years. But sooner or later in the millennium the new Administration, whether it was Gore's or Bush's, would have to take this matter up again.

Deny, deny, deny...

The writer of this piece should realize that his denials are a bias themselves (disregard of fact for partisan politicking).