Posted on 09/12/2008 10:57:47 AM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
A majority of Americans recognize that the MSM has a bias, and a plurality understand that the bias is leftwards. That is good. But how many Americans catch every correction, every chastening by new media?
Recognition of the general concept of bias is not enough. People need to know of all the instances, such as this one:
ABC has released excerpts from Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin, and in one of them, he attempts to catch her out by asking her to explain something she said:
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
In fact, it was not the exact quote; and the way Gibson quoted her is a complete misrepresentation of what she said. It may, indeed, be close to the opposite of what she said... Read the whole thing!
If Gibson was fed bad information by his team, then the person on his team who did this should be drummed out of the industry. If Gibson himself knew, then he is a low creature indeed, and it is he who should be delivering pizzas, not our news.
Even if Gibson did not know, is there any doubt that if he were interviewing Obama, he wouldn't be asking hardball questions, he would be asking if he could wash Barack's car?
When Palin is interviewed on Fox, the interviewer should ask something like this:
“During your ABC interview, Gibson misquoted you, and completely misrepresented your position on Iraq and God’s will. Do you think that Gibson is a lying propagandist, or just completely incompetent?”
I second that
Sorry, I don't buy that. Gibson is responsible for his errors. He can hold his staff responsible to him for bad information but I wouldn't give him a pass after he used it. I think he's just a smarmy jackass playing the gotcha game.
More Dan Rather news gathering school grads....
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