" The most believable sources for Democrats are ABC News, CBS News and National Public Radio. "
Why did they leave out NBC News ?
I hope the White House is not deluded into the false belief that NBC is balanced and thus should get interviews with President Bush.
Brokaw was being floated as a Kerry VP because he's so anti Bush ,
Andrea Mitchell, Brian Williams ( he showed black and white footage of men on bread lines in the 30's, when he talked about " terrible the US economy was," a few months ago-no bias there ,)
David Gregory,Campbell Brown, Chris Matthews, Tim Russert,Katie Couric -need I go further ?
NBC News continues to show pictures of Abu Graib almost every single night -long after the story had run it's course.
NBC Nightly News showed clips from Moore's movie as a news item twice in the space of one week.
Although, we expect ABC News to be biased, I watched one newscast about 10 days ago, that was incredibly balanced.
That cannot be said of NBC or CBS.
Because they're still getting mileage out of it. I was at a party in Oakland just a couple of weeks ago. Eventually, the subject of Iraq came up and predictably, all the locals were strongly anti-Bush and strongly anti-saving-their-dumb-asses-from-our-motal-enemies. I recall one old friend from that crowd saying that pictures from Abu Ghraib resemble footage from Auschwitz. I just walked away instead of trying to point out some of the subtle distinctions between Nazi death camps and U.S. military prisons. I owed it to the host not to stir up controversy. Besides, I'm not up to taking on this sort of invincible ignorance.
President Bush is holding his own in polls showing both his performance in the WOT and on his chances of relection. Doesn't this prove that Noam Chomsky and those of his school of thought are WRONG. If I understand him correctly (a big if) everything we think comes from the media propoganda machine, rendering us virtual slaves to the dominant media culture. At least half of the country simply seeks out alternative sources of information when Dan Rather becomes too much to bear. And how do you account for freepers? Are we able to think independently only by virture of our tinfoil hats?