To: quidnunc
More from the article:
One of the conservative bloggers, John Hawkins at RightWingNews.com, figured out early what was happening. He pointed out that in the big Associated Press story on the alleged furor, "5 out of 6 people interviewed had an ax to grind with George Bush." Monica Gabrielle, who called the ad "despicable," is a Bush-basher who turned up on at least nine news sites. David Potorti, who was also quoted in many stories, said last October, "I feel like the foreign policy of the Bush administration is almost like a second assault on us." Readers and viewers were not told about these anti-Bush sentiments in stories about the ads.
Potorti is a founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, identified by reporters as "an advocacy group," "a victims' families group," or "one of the families' organizations." More accurately, Peaceful Tomorrows is the antiwar segment of the victims' families movement, long hostile to Bush policies and affiliated with MoveOn.org, a Web-based organization of the left that wants Bush censured and then defeated. Reporters kept quoting leaders of Peaceful Tomorrows without mentioning their leftward push or their small membership (they claim 120 members, out of a population of victims' family members that surely tops 10,000).
2 posted on
03/13/2004 4:38:16 PM PST by
CedarDave
(Environmentalists have outsourced American jobs -- witness the domestic oil and gas industry)
To: CedarDave
As a result, more and more people are understanding that the media is made up of a bunch of untalented, unprincipled liars.
8 posted on
03/13/2004 5:10:29 PM PST by
McGavin999
(Evil thrives when good men do nothing!)
To: CedarDave
This is excellent. It was a good thing I had about an extra 30 hours last week to get on the phone and shame the people in the newsrooms to fix the story. It shouldn't have been necessary to do that.
11 posted on
03/13/2004 8:39:31 PM PST by
doug from upland
(Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
To: CedarDave
More accurately, Peaceful Tomorrows is the antiwar segment of the victims' families movement, long hostile to Bush policies and affiliated with MoveOn.org, a Web-based organization of the left that wants Bush censured and then defeated. Reporters kept quoting leaders of Peaceful Tomorrows without mentioning their leftward push or their small membership (they claim 120 members, out of a population of victims' family members that surely tops 10,000).They also conveniently failed to mention that "Peaceful Tomorrows" is supported by a foundation that gets a large chunk of it's money from Teresa Heinz Kerry.
14 posted on
03/13/2004 11:20:47 PM PST by
SuziQ
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