Courtroom Explodes in Laughter After ABC’s Sawyer Touts Fairness of Journalists

NewsBusters ^ | 7/12/2007 | Scott Whitlock

[Pyro7480]

Thursday’s edition of "Good Morning America" featured a Diane Sawyer anecdote that unintentionally revealed the low opinion Americans have of journalists. After wrapping up a July 12 segment on a Massachusetts man who is in trouble for attempting to avoid jury duty, the ABC co-host recounted the "hurtful" experience she had in a courtroom:

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7:34am

[Wrap up of segment on getting out of jury duty.]

Diane Sawyer: "You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, 'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had."

[rocksblues]

You know they could of also just laughed because she had to make sure everyone in the court room that she was special. I'm a journalist you know, I served in Vietnam etc.

Not really but who knows.

[Hacklehead]

Completely clueless. I think it would be extremely useful to sit down with a journalist or broadcaster and point out each and every incident of bias inaccuracy and unfairness in several reports of their choosing. Only then would they understand what we are talking about.

[ErnBatavia]

What was that our fathers told us????......Make your bed hard.....

My old granny used to say, "You buttered your bread - now sleep in it!"

[vox humana]

I cannot believe that these lying leftists are so deluded they can actually think of themselves as “honest”. They know they lie every day.

That's the problem. They DO NOT know they lie every day. The liberal mind is so warped that they truly believe they are telling the truth, when they are not.

[bert]

She’s an idiot for recounting the anecdote. She plainly doesn’t get it. No hits for her.

[Badeye]

I’ve heard a couple of variations of that old joke, and it has a hard grain of truth at its core.

[Pyro7480]

I hate to defend Sawyer, but she was laughing and joking when she said “it was the most hurtful experience I’ve ever had.”

You think so? It's not entirely clear from her tone when she said that.

[Allegra]

'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the courtroom laughed.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!

Thank you for the best laugh I've had this evening.

[theBuckwheat]

Saying that public rejection is “hurtful” is mild, normally it is “hateful”.

[RexBeach]

Diane is one of the most annoying people on television.

She is so condescending and aloof.

And...she still doesn’t get it about reporters(not journalists). There are virtually no journalists working in America now. At best, they are reporters.

[sourcery]

I think even a journalist who was trying very sincerely to be "unbiased, fair and balanced" would a) never be able to achieve it, and b) always be perceived as unfair and biased by those whose political philosophy wasn't substantially the same as that of the journalist.

The problem is that the definition of "unbiased, fair and balanced" is a function of one's political philosohpy. Given that fact, it is intrinsically impossible for a journalist (or anyone else) to be politically neutral.

[trisham]

LOL!!

[2dogjoe]

“Better put some ice on it.”

Good one!!!

[Rummyfan]

And the judge said to me, 'Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?' And I said, 'That's what journalists do.' And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had."

Poor Diane! And I hate to break it to her but she's not even a journalist. She's a step above a news reader. What has she ever written in the last twenty years? Mark Steyn is a journalist.

[Mad_as_heck]

The foundation of the corruption in our media is the arrogant idea of "Journalism." Its a pretentious fraud that allows them to excuse their open partisan shilling.

There was a time where every town in America several, sometimes dozens of newspapers. Today most towns are one newspaper towns and America has effectively become a one newspaper nation where political debate is a leftist monologue.

There is little hope of getting balance in the NYT, Time, Newsweek, or CNN we need to balance them with are own open;y partisan press outlets aimed at getting our message out to the general public. Rush, Fox News, FreeRepublic, etc have already made a big impact but preach mainly to the choir.

When we can match them media outlet to media outlet we will start wining again....

[dellbabe68]

“Liberals live in a social bubble, in their liberal echo chamber, and when confronted with the real world, they find it “hurtful”.”

I’m surprised she didn’t sue for a hostile environment.

[dellbabe68]

“Liberals live in a social bubble, in their liberal echo chamber, and when confronted with the real world, they find it “hurtful”.”

I’m surprised she didn’t sue due to the hostile environment.

[gimme1ibertee]

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
I’m surprised they weren’t rolling on the floor in convulsive laughter!

[Soul Seeker]

I take it we’re all adding to the worst moment of her life right now. :-D

[Enchante]

"...everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I've ever had."

ROFLMAO. In her delusional arrogance, Sawyer could not even consider the possibility that maybe "everybody in the courtroom" understands things about media bias that are beyond her feeble grasp. I'm sure that she will go to her dying day viewing all that derision and laughter as symptoms of inferior Americans who just don't appreciate the greatness of the MSM.