Posted on 05/19/2008 1:11:05 PM PDT by WesA
The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.
At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week.
Specifically, White House counselor Ed Gillespie laments that the network edited the interview in a way that “is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that [Bush] agreed with [correspondent Richard Engel's] characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it.
“This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the President’s responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts,” said Gillespie in the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus.
Gillespie used the opportunity to also inquire whether NBC News still believes that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. In November 2006, the network decided to label the infighting in the country a “civil war.”
“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”
Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.
“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”
My MIL was a great woman and a good conservative.
Some in laws and parents get very old after a few days for many of us. Some don’t require a few days.
Hope all offended; if they EVER watch NBC; just decide to give it up.
This should be available on You Tube. . .if not; perhaps a 'reconstruction' should be made available.
Where? Into the ground?
Nice to hear the White House getting tough with NBC.
Thank goodness we have PBS to communicate the President’s position (sarcasm).
;)
Love that story
So much for that mentally challenged “Flo” impersonation. Besides, NBC has been giving the entire GOP the finger for decades now, hacks.
If NBC is going to act like MSNBC, well then...
A very few peole in OLD Europe still “believe” in the fake socialist religion and no one in NEW Europe(ie Eastern Europe who lived under socialist totalitarianism)...
US socialists are really has been retards.
Socialist fantasy is ,at last,slowly fading away like smoke clouds from lunatic brains
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
They already sold their plastics business, to the Saudis. cut and paste this; I don’t do links
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/sabic/28427/
“...he would put any reporter in his or her place without batting an eye. He didn’t take any crap from the press.”
Giuliani has the moxie we desperately need, both at home and abroad. I hope McCain appoints him to Homeland Security (or similar high position.)
I agree, although it can be dangerous around here to do so still....LOL.
While I have major disagreements with some of Guiliani’s liberal social positions...I love his moxy on the war, the press and the democrats.
McCain is just going to let them run all over him, as usual, and lead this party into the ground.
ABC chronically refers to PRESIDENT Goerge Bush as “Mr Bush”.
It drives me nuts.
Then they have the guts to say they have NO bias?????
Diogenesis, you are a treasure!
Constantinople!
Well God luv Ya!
Some good news in re: NBC. I’m fixin’ to put this up on a separate thread.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/entertainment/965873,6_5_NA23_NIELSENS_S1.article
NBC’s limping to a close in prime-time ratings
May 23, 2008
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By David Bauder The Associated Press
NEW YORK — NBC is limping to the close of the prime-time TV season.
Only one of the network’s shows, “Law & Order: SVU,” finished among the 25 most-watched shows last week, ranking No. 16, according to Nielsen Media Research. “Shark,” a drama that CBS is canceling, was seen by more people last week than any other NBC show but “SVU.”
The network’s prime-time average of 5.5 million viewers last week, was just more than half of first-place CBS’ average.
The showing during a ratings “sweeps” month points to the challenge NBC has in the next few months. One advantage is the network’s coverage of the Summer Olympics in China, which should give promoters the chance to remind people of upcoming shows.
The prime-time performance makes it all the more impressive that NBC has managed to stay in first place for its evening news, late-night lineup and early morning.
For the week, CBS averaged 10.3 million viewers (6.7 rating, 11 share), ABC had 9.6 million (6.2, 11), Fox 9.2 million (5.6, 9), NBC 5.5 million (3.6, 6), the CW 2.7 million (1.7, 3), My Network TV 1.2 million (0.8, 1) and ION Television 320,000 (0.2, 0).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision averaged 3.6 million (1.8, 3), Telemundo had 990,000 (0.6, 1), TeleFutura 820,000 (0.4, 1) and Azteca 160,000 (0.1, 0).
NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.2 million viewers (5.6, 12). ABC’s “World News” was second with 7.9 million (5.5, 12) and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.7 million viewers (4, 8).
A ratings point represents 1,128,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation’s estimated 112.8 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
ROTFL!!!
I see that the old Freeper wit hasn't died.
And I like your tagline as well!
A Weapon of Mass Deception.
They have never had to live with the results of what they espouse.
Thanks for being a part of FR. It is heartening to hear from commonsense Europeans.
My prayers are that Euopeans return to The Faith and that the Muslims there are coverted, just as the Goths and other barbarians were centuries ago.
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