Email Reveals CBS's Secret Connections with Liberal Thinktank

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In Hunt for Suitable Subjects, CBS Rejects Blacks
Email Reveals Collusion with Liberal Thinktank
2003-07-30 04:19:34 ET

• An electronic message from a spokeswoman at a liberal thinktank obtained by RatherBiased.com has provided new evidence of backdoor contacts between CBS News and left-leaning organizations. The document also indicates

  
  

  Joan Golder is the perfect type of person CBS producers were seeking. She was featured on a July 28 segment entitled "Seniors Sour Over Prime Rate Cuts."

  that producers at the network deliberately exclude African-Americans in their search for potential story subjects.

  Written by Karen Conner, a senior media coordinator for the Economic Policy Institute, the email was disseminated at the request of CBS News, calling for individuals to appear in an Evening News series called "Making Ends Meet." The network billed it as a "month-long look at the unemployment crisis in America."

  A number of topics had already been covered in the broadcasts since July 7, but by last week, CBS News was looking for people in need of government assistance but who were ineligible in some way. A producer at the Evening News asked Conner to get the word out to people who fit the qualifications.

  "They seek to interview individual, single parent, or family who went from welfare to work, and then to being unemployed without any safety net," Conner wrote. CBS was looking for people who "are not eligible for unemployment insurance, and/or they hit their limit for receiving welfare benefits."

  There was one other requirement: applicants could not be black. "Reporter prefers the individual/family NOT be African-American."

  Asked about the exclusion, Conner said that her liaison at the network thought that featuring black Americans down on their luck would ruin the impact.

  "The producer said she didn't want it to come off badly," the spokeswoman explained. "She said she didn't want the report to further the stereotype that only African-Americans are on welfare or are the only ones who need it."

[Spiff]

Would it be safe to assume that this post lead to this story?

[RatherBiased.com]

Yes.

[Spiff]

Good. Keep up the great work.

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM

[Only1choice____Freedom]

I'm waiting for some nationl media to tick this up.

(crickets chirping)

[weegee]

What's the frequency of SeeBS's bias? Nightly...

[somemoreequalthanothers]

I'm glad this is getting attention, but people that are surprised by this sort of thing just have no clue what the hell is going on around them.

[fight_truth_decay]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/953858/posts

[jagrmeister]

We're preaching to the choir. WE all know CBS is biased. We need to get the message to the masses that the network news is pushing a liberal agenda. That's what will force media accountibility.

[Old Sarge]

And you know the response from the sheeple:

"Alpha-bet Goo-oo-oo-d, Internet Baa-aa-aa-ad!"

[Noumenon]

It always cotton pickin' time on dat ol librul plantation.

Nooooooobody know de trouble ah seen.

[King Prout]

secret?

[King Prout]

more like >/= 1GHz

[King Prout]

and mere evidence won't convince them.
I sometimes think that we'd get farther with kind words and a 2x4 than with kind words alone.

[Timesink]

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[Republic]

This needs to be discussed on air. This is way to rich to let slide.

[eric_da_grate]

"Asked about the exclusion, Conner said that her liaison at the network thought that featuring black Americans down on their luck would ruin the impact."

"Ruin the impact".....A deliberate attempt by CBS to "discolor" the story....Why do you suppose they made it such a point to exclude blacks?.....Perhaps the Rainbow Coalition should get word of this article.

[GOPJ]

bump

[piasa]

Wonder if Simon and Schuster was getting UN Oil for Food Program money to publish this stuff from Ritter as well as material from Clarke?

1999 : (FORMER UNSCOM INSPECTOR SCOTT RITTER GETS BOOK DEAL FROM SIMON & SCHUSTER)This is not [former UNSCOM inspector Scott] Ritter's first attempt to share his insights and first-hand experience of weapons inspection. In 1999, he landed a quarter-million-dollar book deal with Simon & Schuster to tell his story in Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All. Critics called it "muddled" and it did not attain the notoriety or praise Ritter had hoped for. That's why he pursued the idea of making a documentary. "My driving mission is to tell the world that the inspection process has been hijacked by the Bush administration," Ritter explains. -- "Ritter Rides The Peace Train; EX-U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTOR CALLS BUSH MORE DANGEROUS THAN SADDAM, By Paul Perillie, Long island press news, 2004?" http://www.longislandpress.com/v01/i05030213/news_03.asp