Posted on 01/16/2009 12:18:31 PM PST by chessplayer
The three network morning shows on Friday almost totally skipped any coverage of President Bush's farewell address to the country on Thursday. Despite having a combined eight hours of air time, NBC's "Today," CBS's "Early Show" and ABC's "Good Morning America" devoted only 55 seconds total to reporting on Bush's speech. Instead, important topics such as "Obama thongs" and cheddar biscuits were highlighted.
Over a period of two hours, "The Early Show" ignored the speech entirely. "Good Morning America," which has a similar running time, allowed a mere 17 seconds. The "Today" show, which now encompasses four hours of broadcast time, provided the most, with 38 seconds of information about the address. None of the three programs featured any clips of Bush's farewell. (In contrast, on March 19, 2008, the day after then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech on race, these same shows allowed nine and a half minutes of sound bites of the Democrat.)
After eight years of this kind of thing....what were you expecting?
better ignored than spewing on endless crap at him I guess
Who was watching?
No network news seen here. The BS Meter diqualified them over 10 years ago.
Hey, how come happy old “Charlie” Gibson formerly a goof from the cheezy GMA, now insists on being called “Charles” and is all serious all the time?
Anyone else remember the condescending, looking down his libtard nose, “interview” GRILLING he gave the fair Sarah? What a POS. After I saw some clips of that interview, I new just what kind of guy “Charlie” is. He is the opposite of Sarah.
I boycott communist news outlets and networks, so their actions have no effect on me at all.
LLS
The other evening, the no longer Charlie but newly minted Charles Gibson, did a piece on the Obama girls during his evening news cast. He mentioned that they would be enrolled at Sidwell Academy in Washington. He then went on to tell his viewing audience (smugly) that he had attended and graduated from Sidwell. Over the years he has mentioned he graduated from Princeton on different occasions ... so what we have here is a northeast elitist with impeccable liberal credentials.
I don't think I want to know.
MSM biased? Next thing you know, you’ll be telling me Santa Claus ain’t real. Stop piercing my veil!
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