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CNN's Bernard Shaw: Media Failed America By Not Showing Good Side of Reagan
CNN ^ | 6/11/04

Posted on 06/11/2004 10:49:11 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar

Edited on 06/11/2004 11:23:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

"We in the media failed the nation by not reporting these things about Reagan at the time.

"I have learned a lot about this side of Ronald Reagan...things I never new before. So I, too, have failed America."

[paraphrased]

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Bernard Shaw: "Can I say something that touches on a very sensitive issue? The news media, and how we failed to thoroughly cover and communicate the very essences we're talking about possessed by Ronald Reagan. What I've been reading and what I've been hearing, I did not get during his two terms in office. Or did I miss something?" Wolf Blitzer: "I think you're on to something, Bernie, uh.. "

Shaw: "I think we failed our viewers, listeners and readers to an appreciable extent. I can't quantify it, but I'll put it there. Because I certainly missed a lot."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: admission; admissionofguilt; againstinterests; bernardshaw; ccrm; cnn; deceit; epiphany; mediabias; ronaldreagan
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To: Timesink; *CCRM; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

A Media Shenanigans & Media Schadenfreude ping.


161 posted on 06/11/2004 3:49:13 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (Proud alumnus of the Reagan Youth.)
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To: Dont Mention the War

Color me surprised, shocked but ever wary of these tricksters.


162 posted on 06/11/2004 3:55:33 PM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Somewhere pigs are flying.

Pigs flying, hell...they're using floss, too!

163 posted on 06/11/2004 3:57:41 PM PDT by Poohbah ("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)
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To: justa-hairyape
How about telling the American people about the good things that are
being done in Iraq right now ?


...well said and repeated for effect
164 posted on 06/11/2004 3:57:51 PM PDT by VOA
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
A had to do a double take of the calender to make sure it's not April 1st!
165 posted on 06/11/2004 3:58:57 PM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: cajun-jack

"nah..he's just trying for blather's or jennings' job.
would be great if he actually had a paign of conscious though wouldn't it??"

I think he's pulling a Greta.


166 posted on 06/11/2004 4:10:34 PM PDT by TET1968
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Elite Media was and is an albatross around the neck of our great country.
167 posted on 06/11/2004 5:34:12 PM PDT by Helms (Al Gore Has No Core + A Lost Soul In a Political Fishbowl)
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To: catpuppy
"Hogwash. There is new material but a record number of voters didn't need it in order to understand and vote for what Judy and Bernie and Wolfie will never comprehend: Reagan was right. They were wrong."

To little too late and Shaw got his retirement fund while badmouthing and keeping Sadam in power. I suspect this might all be bullsheet.

Judy Woodruff is Al Hunts wife. They are bottom feeders in The Capitol.

168 posted on 06/11/2004 5:45:16 PM PDT by Helms (Al Gore Has No Core + A Lost Soul In a Political Fishbowl)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
"Can I say something that touches on a very sensitive issue? The news media, and how we failed to thoroughly cover and communicate the very essences we're talking about possessed by Ronald Reagan. What I've been reading and what I've been hearing, I did not get during his two terms in office.

Thus speaks Bernard "WTF Do I Care, I'm Retired" Shaw

169 posted on 06/11/2004 6:21:13 PM PDT by martin_fierro (WARFARE Mothers Make Better Lovers)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

Stunned. I am absolutely stunned.


170 posted on 06/11/2004 6:22:11 PM PDT by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
It is time to send a kind message. Who has the contact info for Bernard Shaw?

Keep in mind that he unwittingly destroyed Dukakis in 1988. He asked the question about a wife being raped a murdered. The answer was so weak that Dukakis, I believe, lost the election that night.

171 posted on 06/11/2004 6:25:48 PM PDT by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: Bigg Red

Paging Dr. Freud!


172 posted on 06/11/2004 6:57:00 PM PDT by An American In Dairyland (Have you forgotten?)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
I remember one occassion where Kristinn and I ran across Bernie Shaw outside Olive's Restaurant where a big party was going on. I got to yell across the street to him, "Peggy Noonan was right, you are a lap dog."

Forget the exact details, but at the time Noonan had just used that term about CNN or Bernie in particular that day or the day before.

173 posted on 06/11/2004 7:38:32 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (How can they call it a "Peace March" when they unconditionally support those who kill our soldiers?)
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To: saveliberty; lainie
No worries. You have to really work at it to offend me. :)

OK, then I think your mother dresses you funny too...

174 posted on 06/11/2004 7:42:01 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (How can they call it a "Peace March" when they unconditionally support those who kill our soldiers?)
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To: Oldsailor
"Who really cares what Bernie Shaw says anymore.....remember he was the dude who would not furnish info concerning Saddam."

Well, if he knew then; 'what he knows now'; perhaps that whole episode would have been different.

We might just appreciate, that the next time Reagan's name comes up for laugh among the Leftist media; there may be some defense of him, coming for the same quarters.

That is quite a step; wondered this week; after incredible stories and tributes; how these people went to bed at night without re-thinking 'who' they are. Good to see one at least one, offering publicly; a slight change of heart.

175 posted on 06/11/2004 8:36:11 PM PDT by cricket
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

Oh my God, the world is indeed coming to an end.


176 posted on 06/11/2004 8:38:32 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

This isn't the Onion, so this actually happened? Yes, they didn't report anything good about Reagan, and they are doing even worse by the current President. Will they learn anything from this? (doubtful)


177 posted on 06/11/2004 8:40:39 PM PDT by ladyinred (RIP Governor/President Reagan, ride peacefully into that sunset.)
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

So, where's a link to the actual article? A link to cnn.com is completely useless.


178 posted on 06/11/2004 8:47:25 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

Sorry I missed Shaw's comments, I never watch CNN any more.


179 posted on 06/11/2004 9:18:43 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Bluntpoint
I believe the change started when the New York Times shined a light on themselves. This is fallout. It might become fashionable for the media to live an examined life. I'm not ready to be magnanimous, but there's hope, and that's a nice change...

We should be powerful and single minded in battle and magnanimous in victory.

180 posted on 06/11/2004 9:30:41 PM PDT by GOPJ
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