Can you spell prostitute? How about n-u-i-s-a-n-c-e?
Prairie
Posted on 10/20/2004 6:06:30 AM PDT by the Wayne
I'm always reminded of the addage "they can't win if they don't cheat" when I read stuff like this.
No. They view this stuff and the next day it is in the front page news.
Further the media is now reporting phony polls showing the race a dead heat so as not to discourage kerry voters with the TRUTH. Their candidate is a loser.
Two of the Kerry ads released last weekend -- one attacking the Bush administration's handling of flu vaccine, the other accusing the president of a plan to slash Social Security benefits -- have not aired.
What did that accomnplish?
1. Now with Kurtz saying the Emperor has no clothes, the MSM will be hesitant to report further on Kerry Response ads (and will certainly issue disclaimers if they do) So Kerry has now alienated his most powerful sympathetic allies. and
2. This one ... the other accusing the president of a plan to slash Social Security benefits -- have not aired.
got play in the media, and DOZENS of newsstories pointing out the false hood of it, and not just in Conservative Journals.
If Kerry wins it will be IN SPITE OF his campaign...
Ummm .. sounds like the Kerry Camp are playing the media as puppets
Can you spell prostitute? How about n-u-i-s-a-n-c-e?
Prairie
Off Topic .. but I keep hearing the libs saying any presidential candidate who doesn't have 50% 3 days before the election has never won
Ummmm .. what was Clinton's %'s in 1996 ??
I don't remember him being 50% .. in fact, I don't remember him getting 50% of the vote
What are the ads "talking points" for the intellectually shallow lefty liberal "journalists"? Wonder when they stopped responding to their written orders.
And Peter Jennings just don't get it ....
http://www.theomahachannel.com/politics/3833789/detail.html
Jennings: Media In Glaring Spotlight
Jennings Says Aim Is Objectivity, Fairness
POSTED: 5:02 pm CDT October 19, 2004
UPDATED: 5:32 pm CDT October 19, 2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- ABC news anchor Peter Jennings said he's getting an earful on media coverage.
Jennings is on a swing through battleground states, including Iowa and Missouri, where polls show the race could go either to President George W. Bush or Sen. John Kerry.
"I think one of the best reasons to go on the road is just to listen," Jennings told KETV NewsWatch 7's Rob McCartney during a stop in Kansas City, Mo., Monday.
Peter Jennings in Council Bluffs with Rob McCartney and Julie Cornell
Jennings gets questions about a CBS report on Bush's National Guard service, for which CBS news anchor Dan Rather later apologized and said the story was a mistake. He's also asked about Sinclair Broadcasting's decision to air a controversial documentary on Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam war record. Another big question regards an ABC internal memo from the political director suggesting that reporters need not "reflexively" hold both sides of the presidential election "equally" accountable.
Jennings said the media is now under the hot lights.
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said.
Jennings said that everyone -- even journalists -- have points of view through which they filter their perception of the news. It could be race, sex or income. But, he said, reporters are ideally trained to be as objective as possible.
"And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair," the anchorman said.
Does the public think network news is fair? There are a number of opinion polls that show news consumers feel that the media does have a slant.
Jennings maintains those polls may be driven by groups with an agenda.
"There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives,'" Jennings said.
The problematic response, Jennings said, is the way people tailor the way they consume news.
"If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong," Jennings
We'd appreciate it, if you just refrain from lying& frabricating stories to help your buddies while ignoring or taking out of context other stories to hurt those you dislike Mr Jennings
....FAIRNESSS? don't worry we don't expect that yet 8)
Maybe Bill Jones ought to do a lot of things. I am so disappointed in his campaign and the California Republican Party. Boxer doesn't need to do anything to win, but sit back and watch the Cal Repubs do nothing (sigh).
Exactly. That's how the Johnson/Moyers "Daisy Ad" of the '64 election received so much free air time. The ad was short, less than ten seconds, so it did not waste air time, and it made "news" by its controversy. The networks played it over and over again for free, only the first showing was paid for. Goldwater was branded a "war monger" on the cheap.
When this election is over somebody ought to string up McCain and Fiengold.
In this setting, exactly how corrupt is ABC?
Halperin Memo Dated Friday October 8, 2004
"It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high
for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave
I do not want to set off (sp?) and endless colloquy that none of us have time for today
- nor do I want to stifle one.
Please respond if you feel you can advance the discussion.
The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman
on the web both make the same point today: the current Bush attacks
on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way
that goes beyond what Kerry has done.
Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his (ed. ABC-supported) efforts to win.
We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest,
but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides
"equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that.
I'm sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts
to complain about our coverage.
This is all part of their efforts to get away with as
much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts
to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions.
It's up to Kerry to defend himself, of course.
But as one of the few news organizations with the skill and strength to help voters evaluate what the
candidates are saying to serve the public interest.
Now is the time for all of us to step up and do that right. "
And who is Halperin?
BREAKING:
Halperin's father is none other than Morton H. Halperin,
head of George Soros' Open Society Policy Center.
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