>>>Now I don’t know what to make of CNN reporter Barbara Starr. <<<
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The only show that I watch on CNN is Howie Kurtz’s Reliable Sources on Sunday mornings. The week before last he had Barbara Starr and Robin Wright, “diplomatic correspondent” for the Washington Post as guests to discuss the topic of the coverage of news from Iraq. Specifically the lack of coverage of the reports of Good News from Iraq for the decreasing violence numbers in September.
Both women looked at him with perfectly straight faces and said they saw no problem with the media’s failure to report the good news because, “it may be a trend or it may not be a trend. We have to wait and see.”
Howie then asked them if casualties increased would they wait to report that to see if it was a trend, and both women said that information would definitely need to be reported immediately because “it would be news.”
Neither one exhibited the slightest trace of embarassment or shame or even irony.
Thanks for the report on Barbara Starr (and Robin Wright).
I’d tried to give Starr the benefit of the doubt.
But she REALLY did just about make me gag when she was trying to
pin a “I bet you American Thugs made Zarqawi suffer even after
you bombed that dear freedom-fighter” accusation on the US Military.
Now I know why she has her gig, even though she’s long-in-the-tooth
for female reporters.
(ok, I make age-discrimination and sexist-pig remarks about liberal
reporters, so sue me!)
She’s must be saying exactly what her bosses at CNN tell her to say.
And she agrees with the anti-American part of that agenda.
She probably has hopes of getting a cushier gig:
eventually taking over The Helen Thomas B-tchin’ Reporter Chair
at the White House press conferences.
Of course, preferably when a Republican works out of The Oval Office.