Posted on 01/29/2006 5:25:40 AM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
I guess that would depend on whether you keep asking me questions.
If your questions are rhetorical or if you'd prefer to be ignored, just say so.
Yes, it was my oblique way of trying to say, There is no need to keep replying and replying to my earlier posts.
(Sotto voce) But ... can he do it?
Just plug into Media Research Center or Newsbusters and search for ABC news and Bob Woodruff. You can also google search MRC and Newsbusters just to see just what kind of info will shows up.
I bet you will find that there is a clear news bias on the war in Iraq.
http://www.townhall.com/print/print_story.php?sid=178222&loc=/opinion/column/calthomas/2005/12/08/178222.html
New ABC anchors: Interchangeable parts
By Cal Thomas
Dec 8, 2005
The late Peter Jennings would be mildly amused that ABC News has named two anchors to replace him. He might also be pleased that the very pleasant looking Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff share Jennings' political philosophy. They are both liberal.
How do I know this? For the same reason I know that when a pope dies, his successor will not be a Methodist, but a Roman Catholic. Vargas and Woodruff, along with the new "Nightline" troika of Terry Moran, Cynthia McFadden and Martin Bashir (Ted Koppel, you get bragging rights because it took three to replace you) are all liberals.
If ABC News president David Westin wanted to make a bold statement and attract new viewers, he might have found at least one conservative to be part of the anchor mix. But where would he look and upon whom would he call? John Stossel, who appears on "20/20," is the only conservative-leaning reporter at ABC, but his chances of being tapped were about the same as mine: slim to none. During an interview two years ago with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl, I asked her about journalistic bias. She asserted that there were people of differing political viewpoints at CBS News. Asked to name one, Stahl could not.
Liberal journalists see the world through their own prism: big government and higher taxes are good; abortion on demand is good; nothing wrong with homosexual practice or same-sex marriage; America is evil or, if not evil, the cause of much of the world's problems; religious people are by definition unintelligent and need watching; Democrats are better than Republicans and have a "divine right" (if they believed in the divine, which most big-time journalists do not) to run our government; Bush is evil and an idiot; the war in Iraq is a failure and nothing American soldiers are doing is worthwhile; Howard Stern is a First Amendment crusader (he was featured on last Sunday's "60 Minutes") while those who want culture to at least acknowledge their beliefs are radical imposers of a narrow religious view.
The Media Research Center, a conservative media-monitoring group, has collected some statements by Vargas and Woodruff. While the list is short compared to Jennings', Tim Graham, MRC's director of media analysis, explains in the Washington Times, "New anchorpeople need time to grow in pomposity."
Graham notes Vargas anchored a one-hour "documentary" publicizing "the whacko claims of 'The Da Vinci Code,'" which, he says, "underscores the liberal cultural mindset at ABC."
Woodruff, he notes, broadcast last June from North Korea. He chose to emphasize how much the North Koreans hate Americans. This is news? Woodruff later admitted he did not have a translator and depended on the communist government's handler for his information.
Anyone interested in some of Vargas' ideological record as a doctrinaire liberal can visit www.newsbusters.org/node/3090. There one finds examples of a liberal take on taxes, spending, Judge Samuel Alito, federal regulation and more. The way stories are chosen is also important when considering bias. In addition to stories that delight sponsors, (such as women's health issues that are frequently followed by a commercial promoting drugs the manufacturer claims will improve women's health), controversial political and cultural stories are framed in ways that also reveal a liberal slant.
When this evidence is pointed out to the anchors and network news executives, everyone denies any bias. They actually believe they are fair and accurate because they all subscribe to the same philosophy and they work and socialize with people who hold identical views. That is an undeniable fact.
It has been this way since the agenda-setters took over the newsrooms, and you can expect more of the same. And expect more "preaching" by overpaid anchors about problems they will never face because their salaries dwarf those of average Americans whose interests they champion. They do not understand why this one-dimensional and predictable approach contributes to their falling ratings and declining market share.
The country needs a robust debate and access to information from many points of view. ABC, CBS and NBC do not practice ideological diversity, which is why increasing numbers of conservatives have abandoned broadcast network news in favor of cable. Those who continue to view broadcast news deserve better, but these new anchors guarantee they'll get more of the same.
Further, Scott Ott's satirical piece was not a joke about the terrorist attack, or the injuries to two more people, it was satire aimed at the misguided American media which are working to undermine the administration's earnest efforts to keep us from further terrorist attacks.
Keep up this line of name calling and I'll be happy to flag a moderator immediately.
Well, satire and personal attack in your posts are easily differentiated by even a casual observer, I am sure, and a moderator would be able to distinguish a personal attack. They see 'em all the time.
And that is satire.
Comedy's when the leftist MSM become faced with danger in a part of the world they happen to be suppressing freedom and obstructing the war on terrorism.
Maybe not satire but certainly ironic justice
Tragedy is when our troops die fighting for our freedom.Yup.
I would like to make it clear that my statement resembles General Pattons philosphy "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
and
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr
I think you know what I mean.
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."Patton knew how to form a clever sound-bite; he also knew how to win battles. And he knew that in any battle against a tough enemy, some of your best might die. And that doesn't make them "bastards".
It's a famous and clever saying, but it doesn't mean very much. Those who have died on the battlefield to protect us all, in the heat of battle, using their great personal skill and teaming with the great combined skill of the US military, are the greatest heroes we will ever have.
Let's don't mask that fact with clever sound-bites, even if they come from the great Gen. Patton.
All but ignored in the "noise" was the poignant and extraordinarily sensitive statement of Bob Woodruff's wife Lee: "We realize that our family is going through something that thousands of military families have experienced over the last three years since the war began and throughout our history. Bob's name may be more recognizable, but his story is no more important. He would be the first to insist that the attention should be focused on the members of the U.S. military whose heroic actions he has reported on for years."
Lee Woodruff has it exactly right.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/ollienorth/2006/02/03/185063.html
God bless Lee Woodruff for providing us with this info. I would like to retract my negative statements and deeply apologize to the Woodruff family. I wish I could say the same for the rest of the MSM.
I could only wish that Bob Woodruff in the past on ABC news not paint Cindy Sheehan actions as heroic.
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