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CONTROVERSY HITS ABC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MARK HALPERIN
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Posted on 10/08/2004 4:57:36 PM PDT by KStorm

CONTROVERSY HITS ABC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MARK HALPERIN... EXCLUSIVE DEVELOPING... An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff during coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush -- not to 'reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable'...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; abciscbsindrag; abcnews; bias; halperingate; halprin; kerry; markhalperin; media; mediabias; mediots; memo; memos; napalminthemorning; partisanmedia; rats; wot
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To: pbrown
>>Hey, I lost that diamond bracelet 2 years ago...thanks for finding it...could you toss it to me please.

Aw, gee...I wish you'd said something sooner! I had the diamonds melted down. :D The jeweler said the platinum was just scrap, so...

241 posted on 10/08/2004 7:09:36 PM PDT by Graymatter (Reload Bush/Cheney 2004)
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To: JayNorth
The RATs are desperate, It's time for some Rat Fondue!!
242 posted on 10/08/2004 7:10:33 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Graymatter

Dang it, just my luck to lose it twice....lol.


243 posted on 10/08/2004 7:12:52 PM PDT by processing please hold
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To: Stopislamnow

Let it begin. They ARE the "enemies foreign and domestic" that I swore to defend against throughout my career. I will damned well be willing to take up weapons against them to defend the constitution. Let's face it, the rats are the party of slavery, the party of secession and civil war, the party of the KKK, etc. They are every bit as dangerous as their terrorist friends.


244 posted on 10/08/2004 7:13:16 PM PDT by RJS1950
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To: pbrown

need some wood?


245 posted on 10/08/2004 7:14:54 PM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: operation clinton cleanup

The war, the patriot act, basically even though Kerry voted for this things, if they have gone badly, it is Bush's fault


246 posted on 10/08/2004 7:17:02 PM PDT by occutegirl ("She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." ~ Louisa May Alcott)
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To: Fintan

What kind of "sparks"?


247 posted on 10/08/2004 7:29:26 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: JazzX

Bump


248 posted on 10/08/2004 7:31:00 PM PDT by jokar (On line data base http://www.trackingthethreat.com/db/index.htm)
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To: occutegirl

[Bush] You are damned if you don't and damned if you do as far as the media goes.


249 posted on 10/08/2004 7:33:08 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: SunnySide

You mean the Rat Pack!


250 posted on 10/08/2004 7:34:26 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: JazzX; E.G.C.; imintrouble
As Doug Forrester likes to say before calling for the "retirement" of Dan Rather, "a free press is essential to a free society."

That is true. But the dirty little secret is that broadcasting is not merely an addition to communication of truth, it is selective addition to the expressive power of certain people to the comparative disadvantage of we-the-people generally. Think of it this way: an American who is watching ABC television is an American who is not reading FR.

And a license to broadcast at a certain power at a certain frequency at a particular location would be no big deal except that you and I are censored from being able to broadcast in competion to the FCC licensee. Reread the First Amendment and justifiy to yourself that its intent is to allow the federal government to favor Dan Rather's employer over your right to communicate, or mine!


251 posted on 10/08/2004 7:36:28 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: crazyhorse691
Looks like the FCC will be looking at another license.

The FCC is the State. They wouldn't dare bite the hand of the statist f!!cks in the media that help to see the state gets bigger. I kinda wish you were right, but I mostly wish the FCC was about 4 people in a poorly lit office lookin for things to do. Instead they are government workers and therefore less than the best people they can be for the planet and generally engaged in systematic attempts to see that the USUNFEDGOV gets bigger, not smaller. So, anyway, < /rant>...

but, sorry, no way in hell, IMHO, will the FCC do a damned thing except pray for a more powerful USUNFEDGOV.

252 posted on 10/08/2004 7:38:41 PM PDT by FreeRadical (Tell me again why I have to tolerate Socialists/Progressives on American soil?)
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To: JazzX

CBS AND ABC take a credibility hit


253 posted on 10/08/2004 7:41:15 PM PDT by Mr. K
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Your thoughts on my suggestion?

MSM Bias - Counterstrike

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1239577/posts

254 posted on 10/08/2004 7:41:50 PM PDT by Covenantor (CBS Counterfeit But Sincere)
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To: JazzX
CONTROVERSY HITS ABC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MARK HALPERIN

Controversy?
It's simply another revelation that "objective" journalists are
anything but.
(objective)
255 posted on 10/08/2004 7:42:33 PM PDT by VOA
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To: nonkultur
"The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context
in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done," Halperin writes.


"D-mn it, distortions and taking things out of context...that's a
wholly-owned franchise of Democrats and us objective journalists!
-- my channeling of Mark Halperin
256 posted on 10/08/2004 7:45:14 PM PDT by VOA
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To: RJS1950

Exactly, they are the enemy within.


257 posted on 10/08/2004 7:49:50 PM PDT by Reagan is King (The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: The G Man
"Halperin better be fired or I am NEVER watching ABC again."

Out of curiosity, other than Monday Night Football, what is there on that wasteland to watch now?

259 posted on 10/08/2004 7:59:18 PM PDT by hometoroost
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To: Covenantor
If ever I am asked whether I watched a Network broadcast I will say no unless it was a sporting event, because it will be true. I find anything but history channel and FNC and a few similar cable channels to be boorriinngg.

I created this thread three years ago, and have continually updated it since with thoughts from other threads about the contours of the problem of "media bias" (I prefer to call it "the perspective of journalism") and how it might be addressed.


260 posted on 10/08/2004 8:01:40 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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