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CNN's Bernard Shaw: Media Failed America By Not Showing Good Side of Reagan
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| 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.
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"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."
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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."
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: admission; admissionofguilt; againstinterests; bernardshaw; ccrm; cnn; deceit; epiphany; mediabias; ronaldreagan
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To: Bigg Red
And a big, old "hear, hear" to you too!
:oP
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:56:02 AM PDT
by
alnick
(Goodbye, Mr. President.)
To: Argus
I think I just saw pig poop drop from the sky onto the lawn
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Wow, in one fell swoop, Shaw admits that the American media buried the truth,
while peddling lies about Ronald Reagan, and that they did it KNOWINGLY.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:56:19 AM PDT
by
MamaLucci
(Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
We knew the truth all the time, Bernie -- it was the opposite of whatever you and CNN reported.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:56:37 AM PDT
by
CWW
(Just Say No To Kerry!!)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Uh oh, Bernie's gone off the reservation.
Katie & her ilk won't stand for it!
To: 11th Earl of Mar
My God.
His eyes have seen the glory.
Late, but not too late.
He's blessed for that.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:56:51 AM PDT
by
onyx
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Don't expect CNN to apply this newfound knowledge to their coverage of the current administration, though.
To: Bigg Red
Easy on that "Post" button, Bigg fella.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:57:06 AM PDT
by
brewcrew
To: justa-hairyape
Sorry, in keeping with CNN's policy (not telling truth about Sadam until after the fact, not telling truth about Reagan until funeral, etc.) no good news will be reported from Iraq until a Democrat is in office (hopefully in 2005).
Thank you,
CNN
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:57:24 AM PDT
by
Sapper26
(If anything I've written appears well thought out and reasoned, it's a fluke.)
To: *CCRM
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:57:49 AM PDT
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Sorry...you continue to underestimate the American people. We figured it out, as witnessed by the poutpourings of the last few days and today.
No, Bernard...you failed yourselves.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:57:59 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Pres Reagan...your memory and impact have not dimmed...only aged and grown stronger!)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Shaw must have remembered how scared he was as he hid under the table in the Iraqi hotel during Desert Storm.
CNN is "campaigning". FOX is whipping their butts in the ratings - hell CNNfn is even ADVERTISING for views ON FOX NEWS.
So, like good liberals, they are "campaigning" to the center...(but still spin to the left). If the worst happens, and CNN takes the #1 spot over again, they'll be just as leftist as they ever were.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:58:02 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(Americans don't know how to NOT BE FREE.)
To: cgk
No, did he really say that?
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:58:12 AM PDT
by
PigRigger
(Send donations to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org)
To: MEG33
I agree. "Better late than never."
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Somewhere pigs are flying. Flying pigs bump.
(Can someone post the cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals"?)
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:58:31 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: sheik yerbouty
"We must be getting close to "the last days".'
Nah, this just means Bernie's pension at CNN has vested.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:58:33 AM PDT
by
Spok
To: 11th Earl of Mar
To: onyx
Some here don't see this as a victory, just another opportunity to strike out.
We should be powerful and single minded in battle and magnanimous in victory.
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Does anyone know the tempature of hell now. I believe it could be a tad bit cooler.
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:59:30 AM PDT
by
David1
To: 11th Earl of Mar
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posted on
06/11/2004 10:59:36 AM PDT
by
Boxsford
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