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Mark Foley Story Count, Week One: 103 Stories on ABC, CBS, and NBC
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| October 6, 2006
| Tim Graham
Posted on 10/06/2006 4:04:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
Posted by Tim Graham on October 6, 2006 - 16:46.
MRC's Rich Noyes has calculated the number of Mark Foley/Will Hastert Quit? stories for Week One of the scandal on ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news programs, from last Friday night, September 29, through Friday morning, October 6. So for evening shows, it's Friday to Thursday. For morning shows, it's Saturday through Friday. (One or two evening stories and a smattering of morning stories are brief anchor updates.)The number's a little shocking: 103 stories. It breaks down like this:
-- ABC: Good Morning America, 23 stories; World News, 15 stories
-- CBS: The Early Show, 17 stories; Evening News, 11 stories
-- NBC: Today, 24 stories; Nightly News, 13 stories
Total morning shows: 64 stories
Total evening news 39 stories
Grand total: 103 stories.
A few quick comparisons to Democratic sex scandals at a beginning point:
-- The 1994 indictment of Rep. Mel Reynolds on teen-sex/child porn charges (total: three stories): ABC, zero. CBS, one evening anchor brief, one morning anchor brief. NBC, one evening story.
-- The 1995 conviction of Rep. Mel Reynolds on all 12 counts against him, including witness tampering (total: 16 stories): ABC, one. CBS, one evening anchor brief, three morning briefs, and a full morning story. NBC, one evening anchor brief, six morning anchor briefs, a morning story, and two morning interview segments.
-- The 1994 sexual harassment filed by Paula Jones against President Clinton, first week (total: 29 stories): ABC, five evening stories and four morning stories; CBS, one evening story, four morning stories; NBC, one evening story, 14 morning stories.
-- The 1999 Dateline NBC interview with Juanita Broaddrick, charging Bill Clinton raped her in April 1978 (total, five stories, two mentions): ABC, two brief morning mentions. CBS, one Saturday night story, one minute and 51 seconds long. NBC, even though it did the Broaddrick interview, zero evening news stories, three full morning stories and an anchor brief.
If it isn't obvious, none of these stories was accompanied by resignation talk.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; dbm; foley; foleygate; markfoley; mediabias; msm
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:04:29 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
I'm still praying for that headline, "Drive By Media commits suicide."
2
posted on
10/06/2006 4:07:24 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Q:Why does President Bush support amnesty for illegal aliens? A:Read this: http://tinyurl.com/nyvno)
To: lowbridge
3
posted on
10/06/2006 4:09:32 PM PDT
by
petercooper
(If President Bush lied us into war, why didn't he plant the WMD's?)
To: lowbridge
But are they covering the Robin Kasaros Book Deal??Their Gay son ws a page for Pelosi in 2003 and her husband John is an Internet SECURITY Expert????...HACK...HACK???
4
posted on
10/06/2006 4:09:50 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: lowbridge
5
posted on
10/06/2006 4:10:14 PM PDT
by
ocr1
To: lowbridge
In real news and tragedies, the 5th little amish girl was buried today and donations can be sent to mennonite.net to help these REAL VICTIMS.
6
posted on
10/06/2006 4:11:11 PM PDT
by
italianquaker
(Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
To: lowbridge
No surprise, they (MSM) are beating this like the proverbial Navajo Rug.
The only thing is they are not covering the hoax aspect, the he was over 18 aspect, the we (MSM) are so full of crap angle, etc, etc.
Rush banged on this pretty good today, a voice of reason in a sea of political posturing.....
7
posted on
10/06/2006 4:13:44 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: lowbridge
Did you know Mary Cheney is Gay?
8
posted on
10/06/2006 4:16:22 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(Seriously, if it REALLY were a religion of PEACE, would they have to label it as such?)
To: msnimje
Did you know Mary Cheney is Gay? Yes.
Did you know the Pope is Catholic? :-)
9
posted on
10/06/2006 4:20:26 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
To: msnimje
old hat. But, john fn kerry was in viet nam.
10
posted on
10/06/2006 4:21:41 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
( Al Lahsuchs...Islam: nothing that a good crusade wouldn't fix ;; mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
To: msnimje
Did you know Mary Cheney is Gay?I found out from this French guy who served in Vietnam that Mary Cheney was a lesbian. Before that, I didn't know much about her other than she was the beloved daughter of VP Cheney.
11
posted on
10/06/2006 4:22:28 PM PDT
by
DaBroasta
(Help stop the hate--vote Republican)
To: Suzy Quzy
Interesting. Do tell. It sounds like this conspiracy is getting pretty close to top Dems.
12
posted on
10/06/2006 4:23:15 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: lowbridge
This is a job for..... CAPT. OBVIOUS!
To: lowbridge
Bubba was 52 years old when he was "PHYSICALLY ENGAGED" with Monica IN "OUR WHITEHOUSE".
Foley is 52 and talked dirty to a WILLING PAGE who was miles away.
THE Dems are such frigg'n hypocrits.
It's for the children? They preach KILL the children if it's inconvenient. The teach our kids that being a homosexual is "normal". In some ways they are.....but they are seriously different from the norm.
14
posted on
10/06/2006 4:23:37 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: lowbridge
Did you know the Pope is Catholic? :-)
He is??
Isn't there a separation of Church and.... oh, never mind.
15
posted on
10/06/2006 4:24:38 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(Seriously, if it REALLY were a religion of PEACE, would they have to label it as such?)
To: Sacajaweau
THE Dems are such frigg'n hypocrits. The Dems, or the Drive by Media?
Wait, there's no difference!
Nevermind!
To: lowbridge
Conservatives need to get a clue.
The Democrats with their accomplices in the media intend on destroying this country... Imagine for a minute when they win the house how they will scream that the country gave them a mandate.. and what did they run on hate Bush, Bush got us into an unwinable war. Vietnamization of Iraq, Impeach him, Get us out of Iraq, Increase our taxes, retreat from the War on Terror, End Surveillance programs, promote enemy rights, treat terror as nuisance and law enforcement, Promote Illegal Immigration, Tear down a fence that hasn't even been built yet. The Progressives are going to run full throttle with their fairness agenda they do not understand our enemy even after 911 major portion of their agenda is to Promote a Foreign Policy which includes Demilitarization, Human Rights and a New Internationalism. They will cut the military budget and turn over the keys to the UN. They fell this will save us from the Islamic threats.
If the Republican base doesn't get serious about thwarting the coming storm prepare for some serious problems regaining control and I am afraid millions of Americans will die.
17
posted on
10/06/2006 4:26:30 PM PDT
by
tomnbeverly
(The More Americans that take 911 personally the better served we will all be.)
To: upchuck
I'd rather see them hung from the nearest tree for treason. Liberals and the media are in collusion, from Iraq to wiretap controversy to Foleygate, to weaken this nation.
18
posted on
10/06/2006 4:26:44 PM PDT
by
Gorobei
To: anymouse
Go read the thread "Foley SETUP?" VERY Intersting.
19
posted on
10/06/2006 4:27:12 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: upchuck
It's absolutely pathetic. If Foley was a Democrat and this same story had broke 30 days before an election, this same "news" media would be screaming about the political timing, republican tactics and Karl Rove. But instead, they demand resignations and replay newstories.
When are Republicans going to go on the offensive? Call the newsmedia out directly for what they are. Demand that Barney Frank resign. Do something.
20
posted on
10/06/2006 4:35:03 PM PDT
by
reaganandme
(You don't beat a liberal by becoming one.)
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