Media Bias Outrage of the Week - Griping About a Gift

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) ^ | 10/15/2001 | Peacerose

[Peacerose]

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[ken5050]

Did you see the article in the NYTimes a few days ago that said that the meals were "too rich" for starving people..that it would make them sick...also, that the Afghanis didn't like peanut butter........

[Peacerose]

Flag!

[Interious]

Oxfam, Doctors without borders, Unicef, etc. ....All notoriously left-wing.

That Petey-poo and his factotums regurgitate this nonsense is not surprising.

Interious

[Peacerose]

People who are picky about their food aren't hungry enough!

[Peacerose]

Flag!

[TomGuy]

The first nite of the drops, I saw a reporter showing many running from 10 miles away to collect the food. One man, as he was leaving, turned to the camera and very seriously said "thank you, thank you, thank you very much."
Those are the ones who appreciate it. I just ignore the others.

[TexRef]

also, that the Afghanis didn't like peanut butter........

People who are picky about their food aren't hungry enough!

How 'bout we send 'em ham and eggs... Bacon too!

I bet if they were hungry enough, they'd eat that!!

Jennings needs to haul his sorry ass back to Canada.

[Peacerose]

Flag!

[Peacerose]

I saw that, too, and it made me so happy. I guess that's why I'm so outraged at the media people that are looking for every nit-picky reason to say it is a bad thing.

[Utah Girl]

Thanks for the ping. One man I read about says it all for me. After eating one of the humanitarian meals, he said it was the first time in three years that he had had a full stomach. And as for the media, I think this quote is quite appropriate.

"It is no time for the American media to revert to the hysterical, silly, fear-mongering, self-centered, juvenile and ninnyish form that has made them so widely mistrusted and so cordially detested."
---- Michael Kelly, syndicated columnist

[Peacerose]

so widely mistrusted and so cordially detested

What could be more true?

[Utah Girl]

And I have some more comments about those aid organizations. They're not the ones who are starving to death. They should be grateful for the supplemental help of getting food to people who may be inaccessible to the aid organizations giving out of food. Sheesh, they act as if the US is encroaching on their private turf or something.

[Peacerose]

You're probably right! We've injured their egos.

[TheGrimReaper]

Might I suggest a massive food drop.... on top of Peter Jennings' house?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BLAM! LET'S ROLL!

[BigTime]

Speaking of NPR, I was riding in a friend's vehicle on Saturday and they had a report on about the arab network that displays the Osama Bin Laden video tapes. The interviewers actually compared the network to the the Fox News Network, suggesting that Fox just lets ridiculous claims by extremists be disseminated without contesting their claims. The interviewee then responded (paraphrasing): Well actually they are Fox plus Ari Fleisher (sp?) implying that they also incorporated the propaganda of arab states themselves.

I couldn't believe it! Remember: there is no liberal media bias.

The next story was about the Jerry Falwell comments on Pat Robertson's program. They tarred and feathered Robertson for what Falwell did then asked whether the Fox Family Channel (which airs the 700 Club) was now being boycotted in the manner that Politically Incorrect was. They were implicitly suggesting that it should be boycotted in the guise of a "news story." Regardless of where you stand on the Robertson/Falwell comments, to have a news commentator essentially suggesting a boycott of another media outlet is astonishing to me.

These people are a menace. There is no question about it.

[okimhere]

Do you suppose Jennings is isolated in his ivory tower, his A/C soundproof limo, and his private little broadcast area so that he never finds out what changes have taken place in the psyche of this country? He's out of it, on many levels. Who's listening any more, Peter? Go do something constructive in Afghanistan, if you so disagree with what efforts are going on there to give aid to the suffering. Just GO anywhere but here.