Pro-Marxist Slant Pushed at ABC, Retired Reporter Claims

CNSNews.com ^ | May 01, 2003 | Marc Morano

[rwfromkansas]

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[DoctorMichael]

How many more souls will come forward to unburden themselves over the next decade or so to tell similar stories?

[HighRoadToChina]

Peter Jennings is a cancer in American news media.

[Bigun]

PING!!!

Bernard Golberg's ABC counterpart comes out of the closet!

[Temple Owl]

We just need to give the man a jaunty beret.< /I>

Okay and I'll throw in an accordion.

[Tall_Texan]

Peter Jennings is a cancer in American news media.

No, Peter Jennings is one growth on a news media body ravaged by cancer. The patient needs extensive radiation therapy and may yet not survive. They are, frankly, dying. Their desperation is as clear as their bias.

[Petronski]

BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil™

[3AngelaD]

I'm sure Jennings is convinced he'd have a prominent place in the nomenklatura and thus keep his income level and perks, so I think limosine liberal is too generous a characterization for him.

[InvisibleChurch]

why do these guys find 'religion' after they retire? who needs 'em?

[dwswager]

But he knows too well that his multi-million dollar salary would go out the door quicker than you can say Noam Chomsky if commies actually took over the U.S.A. But it sure is great for those brown people in the banana republics and elsewhere. He's just another stinking liberal hypocrite.

So true! I recall those UN poverty summits where all the rich, lilly white, college kids go on about how wonderful it is that the 3rd world uses cart and oxen instead of tractors. Of course they never actually live in these places. They just jet home and live off the fruits of other people's labor.

[Susannah]

Send Jenning's sorry, high school drop-out A$$ back to the French section of Canada!

[ladyinred]

Wonderful how the whistle blowers are coming out of the woodwork now, or is out from under the rocks? Jennings is a believer alright, along with many of the mainstream newsreaders.

[FreeReign]

According to Collins, Jennings "took a piece that I had written about the 10th anniversary of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua [in 1989] and first asked his producer to correct it for me and then he himself called me up in Managua and essentially dictated to me what I should say."

Ah, memoirs from the golden age of statist propaganda.

[Landru]

PeeTah did this, huh??

Nawwwww.

...you're joshin'. :o)

[Paul Ross]

Didn't he cry when Moscow fell too?

[Paul Ross]

Ping

[Paul Ross]

Found on MRC just now this amazing bit of anhile pomposity foisted upon ABC viewers by Peetah Ginnings:

On April 9, the day U.S. Marines helped Iraqi civilians topple a huge statue of Saddam, Jennings anchored ABC’s live coverage. As the statue collapsed to the sound of Iraqi cheers, the ABC anchor oddly remarked about the willingness of Saddam to pose so often — as if the dictator was making some sort of sacrifice — and wistfully reflected on how the sculptors who made such monuments to tyranny will have nothing to do now that freedom has arrived in Iraq: “Saddam Hussein may have been, or may be, a vain man, but he has allowed himself to be sculpted heavy and thin, overweight and in shape, in every imaginable costume — both national, in historic terms, in Iraqi historic terms — in contemporary, in every imaginable uniform, on every noble horse. The sculpting of Saddam Hussein, which has been a growth industry for 20 years, may well be a dying art. A man named Natik al-Alusi [sp?] was one of the principal sculptors, and he was doing a new sculpture for the Ministry of Electricity even as this war was beginning.”

So who cares, Peter??!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Collins believes CNN's recent admission and his own experiences in Central America are merely "scratching at the surface" of what Collins regards as a long standing failure of the media to report accurately about despotic governments, particularly left-of-center authoritarian regimes.

He is willing to tell us about it now, because as he puts it, he feels liberated and, "I don't have a job in the industry. I am not looking for a job in the industry. I am starting a little computer consulting company. That is what I am working on right now. I have no compunction about telling it now." But how about the many other reporters who need their job, are we getting the truth?

[Paul Ross]

You don't suppose that was among the considerations in the last email home--by David Bloom before he died, when he remarked quite pointedly about being at the pinnacle of his profession...and no longer finding that of ANY value or concern. If some POS like Jennings was telling me what to say, I would have little regard for that job either.

[Victoria Delsoul]

It's quite possible. I always liked David Bloom; he came across as an honest reporter.