Posted on 08/31/2004 11:08:49 AM PDT by ejdrapes
I am interested in seeing Media Matters' analysis of the ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and other channels during the DNC convention. If they can't do it for all channels and both conventions, then what is the point?
C-Span rocks. No idiot talking heads, and you get to watch people in the crowd act like complete goofballs between speakers.
LOL - you should have said you felt water come thru the tv - Chris Matthews was spitting again!
I watched the rats convention on FNC and muted the speeches . But I watched yesterday on C-Span so I would not miss any of the speeches and will do so again today, tomorrow and on Thursday. Guess that makes me biased, but who cares. I love my president
I'd say that's probably because Giuliani's (and others) speech was 33 minutes longer than the Dem speech. What were they supposed to do, cut off in mid speech saying that's all the time available? This press release is a lie.
I can only venture that the liberals believe, in a time of war, they can whine their way to victory in November.
The MSM was going to cover one hour a night for three of the four nights. For the DNC, they chose Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. For the RNC, they chose Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Therefore, already, any coverage of the RNC will be more than was covered for the DNC on the first day.
Do I have my days right?
-PJ
I love CSpan's coverage of conventions. They do a bangup job showing everything from start to finish and I don't have to hear people giving their opinions and miss something that is not a speech. The good thing about CSpan is they repeat things later that evening or sometimes on the weekend.
Better speakers who didn't let the tv channels dictate the length of their speeches.
Kerry couldn't even lead on that. They told him one hour, so he spoke too fast and waved aside any (pathetic, but still, the audience tried from time to time) applause or chanting.
I guess this stupid group that fancies itself some kind of watchdog would want Fox to pull the plug once the stopwatch says the exact time given to the dems has come and gone.
And say---did MSNBC and CNN by chance cover our speakers in full? Hmmmmmmmmm O Harpies at Media Matters?????
Well, for someone who gets all bent out of shape for Fox News calling itself fair and balanced, he's pretty unbalanced himself:
And here he is, back in the news again, on the same theme, unsurprisingly, this time as founder of a new Web site called Media Matters for America. Backed by $2 million raised from liberal contributors, the site promises to monitor and correct misinformation and lies from the conservative media "in real time."
This is an outrage. Swift Boat Vets, purple heart band aids, now unbalanced coverage by Fox. I bet Kerry calls for a "do over".
Exactly so, cyn.
They are trying to copy Media Research Center, imo, and failing miserably.
So will they be doing the same with the alphabet networks, CNN, MSNBC and so forth?
Maybe when pigs fly.
And how much time did the broadcast networks give the GOP on the first night? More or less than the democrats? They didn't even bother covering it. One night in and the mainstream media already has their panties in a bunch. It seems to me Fox seen a opportunity to gain more viewers since the broadcast networks were not covering it. My guess is that Fox would have shown less if ABC, CBS and NBC would have covered the first night like they did the democrats.
Yep, thats why they're my network of choice!
Of course they are. They know what their viewers want to see.
Total up all the time that Fox gave to the RNC, then total up all the time given by all the other news sources given to the DNC. Hmmmm... just a bit out of balanced, huh? Fox really has these people scared for some reason.
"According to the Kerry for President campaign, News Corp. President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. News Corp. owns Fox News Channel."
"That would put Chernin in the ranks of some other Kerry-supporting media executives, including Barry Diller, Kirk Kerkorian (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) and Harvey and Robert Weinstein, who backed the release of Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11.
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"News Corp. owns Fox News Channel." . . and Bill O'Reilly, and Hannity and Colmes. Is it any wonder direct posting from FoxNews is on the "No-No" list?
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That 'splains this . .
Frankly I don't see why one of the networks didn't break with the group and show a night the others were not. If I was in charge I would have done that and not shown another night.
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