So unless you see what he says "live"...you will never truly know what the President said or didn't say thanks to the fifth colum in the DBM.
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Example: President Bush gave a powerhouse press conference this week. No reporter cought him in a gotcha soundbite. Ergo: no reporting on what he said, much less actually hearing his voice on the radio.
Ann Compton is the WH reporter for ABC news; I hear her voice every half hour when I listen to our station that carries Rush, Sean, Mark Levin and a solidly conservative morning program.
She played a 13 word clip of the President's voice ONCE in her reports the day after that conference. I'm sure it was so she could refute anyone who might say she never did it. I know this because I started listening early in the morning specifically to how ABCnews would cover the conference, and heard her tell us about the conference for a few hours before she actually included the soundbite in her report - exactly once - then reverted to just her voice in her report.
Just remember the 8 years of Clinton -- his voice was on the news every half hour!!!!
Same here. ABC Radio news is about the worst at this.
Example: A positive story out of Iraq...when we killed 300 down in Basrah.
ABC News will give one 5-7 second clip of someone speaking favorably and two 10 second sound bites about why it's still a disaster.
Plus you have to listen to the way the stories are written. You can put an entirely different twist on a story just in how you phrase one or two sentences.
Excellent points..........