Major National Media FReep - A Call to Action

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM)/fairpress.org ^ | 03/27/2003 | Peacerose

[Peacerose]

Call to Action:
FReep Arrogant Propagandists at ABC News

On March 17, the Media Research Center released an extensive study of ABC World News Tonight's reporting practices. They reviewed 234 stories from January 1 through March 7. Their findings offer disturbing evidence of an anti-American undercurrent that pervades their news broadcasts. As the MRC states in their report, ABC News "failed its promise to serve the American people as an independent and objective observer, offering straight facts and letting the people decide. Instead, ABC employed a dangerous double standard - harshly criticizing the Bush administration and its policies, but failing to extend that same tough critical standard to other actors in this political crisis, from congressional Democrats, to UN bureaucrats, to skeptical allies like France, and even to the dictatorship in Iraq."

• MRC Special Report - Peter's Peace Platoon: ABC's Crusade Against "Arrogant" American Power
  Executive Summary
  Full Report
• MRC Media Reality Check - World News Tonight's Anti-War Agenda
• MRC Media Reality Check - ABC’s War News Touts Doubt and Dissent

This report demonstrated that, although CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News have offered fairly balanced reporting on the Iraqi crisis, Peter Jennings and ABC World News Tonight took a decidedly biased approach toward the "arrogant power" of the United States. Four serious problem areas were found:

• Championing France and the United Nations over the U.S. - ABC News constantly questioned the Bush Administration's motives for war and lack of respect for the 'peacemaking' efforts of France and the U.N. No such scrutiny was applied to France or the U.N.

• Channelling Iraqi Propaganda - ABC News treated every pronouncement of the Bush administration with great skepticism, yet repeated Iraqi propaganda without questioning its accuracy.

• Sanitizing Radical Protesters - ABC advertised the size and 'mainstream' nature of anti-war protesters while hiding the radical agenda of the organizers - real honest-to-goodness communists.

• Playing with Polls - ABC covered its own polling numbers very selectively, reporting only those that might be used to make the White House look bad.

"While the American Public grow more convinced every day of the need for war, they have not arrived at that opinion through objective reporting from ABC's World News Tonight that demonstrated faith in letting the American people decide for themselves. Inside, Instead, ABC's evening news team, led by anchor Peter Jennings, has scorned the notion of balance, lobbying the American people by favoring and highlighting information suggesting that war is unjustified, unnecessary, undiplomatic, and unwise. One hopes that their coverage of the conflict itself will be more balanced." - excerpt from Executive Summary, MRC Special Report, "Peter's Peace Platoon: ABC's Crusade Against 'Arrogant' American Power"

The Media Research Center offered four recommendations whereby Peter Jennings and ABC World News Tonight could correct their course and recover a measure of balance in their reporting. They are as follows:

1. Reporters should seek a balance of arguments and a balance of skepticism in covering both the United States and allies and international organizations.

2. Untrustworthy enemy claims should not be given equal weight with the statements of American officials.

3. The American people deserve a fuller picture of the "peace" movement.

4. The American people deserve a fuller picture of network polls.

Please join CCRM in demanding that ABC News make these recommended corrections. Below is the contact information.

ABC
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023

Phone 212-456-4040
Fax 212-456-2795

Email contact page

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[MeekOneGOP]

That image of them supporting troops when they shoot their officers was on the SF-IMC site. I linked it on the 'naive Human Shield for Saddam' thread and they got wind of it. They changed it to this, just fyi . . .

They're playing some sort of games. That link is funky. Copy and paste this . . .

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid57/p6a206a6821c9b22a90c3d4fdc3538c37/fc6ff4db.jpg.orig.jpg

One Texas Ping coming up ! . . .

[bert]

Thanks Peach....you jumped right in.

[Landru]

Hi Peacerose.
Calling in support.

Alright folks let's all lend a hand here to rout that 'Rat's nest in NYC!!

...-BTTT-

[MeekOneGOP]

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.
No, you don't HAVE to be a Texan to get on this list!

[bert]

...Let's mobilize them....

Well IT, we've been preparing all the tools, let's see how they can be put to work.

[Peacerose]

Flag!

[MeekOneGOP]

Here is that link (post #231) . . .

I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam

[March I up]

BTTT!!!!

[Peacerose]

"Sick disbelief" is right! What is going on in the heads of people who put together ABC World News Tonight night after night after night. I can only imagine that they are very disturbed individuals.

[Peacerose]

Hi, Landru! Nice to see you!

[Mudboy Slim]

Petey Jennings is an ANTI-American CommieBa$+ard!!! Send his slack A$$ back to Canada where is lily-punk self fits in with the yella-bellied yippies who fled this country 35 years ago and ain't never been missed!!

ABC SUCKS...MUD

BTW...I never thought anybody could be as AWFUL in their PRO-Socialism as Dannie Rather-Biased, but Jennings is whuppin' Rather's arse in SycophanticSoddomSucklin'!!

[Peacerose]

It's okay - already saved it to our server so they can't mess with us.

[EdReform]

BTTT for later...

[Peacerose]

Dan Rather views himself as an American and can generally be counted on to support the troops. For this alone he deserves credit.

Peter Jennings, on the other hand, is proud not to be an American and views himself as a 'citizen of the world'. As best I can tell, he has no loyalties and thinks this is good. He is unable to support our troops because he thinks he has to be a 'neutral observer' in order to tell the truth.

[Peacerose]

You crazy thing!

[MeekOneGOP]

I'm glad. I figured you did. I cross-referenced this thread and that pic to the Human Shield thread. That oughta torque their jaws! lol! . . .

[dittomom]

Pinging Arizona...

[Mudboy Slim]

Excellent letter!!

FReegards...steve in Richmond

[dead]

I absolutely agree. I didn't think it was possible for anybody to be more biased than Rather but Jennings has actually managed to surpass him in that category in recent months. A dubious distinction, to say the least.

Those two make Brokaw look almost professional.

[Mudboy Slim]

Somebody needs to ask Brokaw when he's gonna allow the WHOLE Juanita Broaddrick interview to be shown!! Brokaw's at least halfway successful in hiding his pro-EffeteElite, anti-EqualJustice Commie Bias, but he's a full-fledged KorruptKlintonKlan kneepad-wearer and Lewinsky-giver, too!!

"Got Sky Above and Ol' MUD Below!!"
(To be sung to Tom Russell's "The Sky Above and the Mud Below")

Two Libs strolled in from the South...one rainy Autumn night...
The sky above...and the mud below...
They walked into Ol' Mudboy's Bar...they were DemonRATS by site...
Big Guy's above...and there's MUD below...
They flashed their Guv'ment Credit Card...
"You'll pay, Slim!!" Slick Willie charged!
Ol' Mudboy slams their liquor down...
Dem Lib'rals start to drinkin'...

Their souls were Void and Black...they FED on Voter's FEARS!!
The Sky above...and Ol' MUD below...
Two Lib'rals oh-so-Powerful...rumor wuz Demboyz were queer...
Their LIES disturbed Good Ol' Mudboy so!!
Then JimRob FReeped in, "That beats all...
Slick's "WANTED" poster's on Slim's wall...
Slick Willie and Algore, y'all...
TRAITORS from the White House!!"

Now DemLib'rals they were Chi-Com Whores...National Security they attacked!!
They're LYIN' SCUM!! Tell 'em MUD said so!!
They prance amongst their Media Whores..."Gravitas" them Leftists lack...
Good Lord's above...got Ol' MUD below!!
At Mount Carmel near WacoTown...thuggish Slick BLITZKRIEGED that Compound...
Two dozen children's deathly howls...
One FACT...the Left's avoided!!

Now Ol' Mudboy was a FReeper...whose known Slick's a DISGRACE!!
Slick's LYIN' SCUM...tell'im MUD said so!!
He owned that Bar and a memory...Media Whore'd could not erase!!
Lord's high above...got Ol' MUD below!!
Yeah, Mudboy he could FReep in verse...
The Culture War Right SHALL reverse...
MUD's a Patriot, folks, the Left he'd CURSE...
One man you did not anger!!!

Lord's high above...got MUD below...
Remove Slick's stain...RE-IMPEACH RATS' 'HO!!
Two Lib'rals who did not know...
How much Slim loves this Nation!!

Slick Willie, he's the bold one...MUD inquired about his "quirks"...
"You'll FRy," said Bill, "'cuz I run this show!!"
D'A$$hole said, "Mudboy, we RAPE Sheeple...'cuz they're helpless twirps...
We're LYIN' SCUM...but OUR Base don't know!!
Slim, yer Internet Algore did make...
Your FreeRepublic Left's laws shall break!!
Boy, read the polls, Ol' Dubyuh's tanked...
Big Guv'ment's on a roll!!!"

Well, these Democrats they wuz IGNORANT...they didn't know who Mudboy wuz...
Good Lord's above...got Ol' MUD below.
That FReeper's face grew darker...folks, MUD measured every word...
The sky above...and the mud below...
"You Commie-Pinko sons of bitches...
Feel MUDS' Wrath, You TREAS'NOUS Wretches...
RESIGN NOW...LEAVE DEECEE QUICK!!!
Yer Free Days are a dwindlin'!!!"

Slick Willie ABUSED the I.R.S. ...Left's tryin' to take OUR Guns...
Slick's spies were called....they attacked Mudboy!!
Too late 'cuz MUD had a groooovy sound...and a flamin' writin' pen...
Lord's high above...we got MUD below!!
Slick called his Leftist Minions near...
MUD's just grinnin' EAR-TO-EAR!!! )8^D>~
Said, "Court's in Session...hear ye, hear...
You're 'bout done Presidin'!!!"

Well, Slick's Trial commenced and folks did sing...Bill's denials were a JOKE!!
You LIE with pigs...you forfeit yer soul!!
MUD said, "We'll cut Big Guv'ment, boys...we'll cut taxes fer ALL good folks!!
Slick's LYIN' SCUM...and the Left MUST know!!
The Constitution it says somewhere...Crimes are Crimes...Justice Don't Care...
Covet not thy Neighbor's Share...
That's why we fought the Revolution!!"

Now that ol' Times-Dispatch headline...hangs framed on Mudboy's Wall...
"CLINTON'S IN CHAINS...CHI-COM TRAITOR's TOAST!!"
Next to MUD's "Reagan Portrait"...Dutch points Rightward from a horse...
Blue skies above...sure do miss him so.
Folks, the twisted Lib'rals must be smacked...
Our Country's SOUL, Left has attacked...
Slick's TYRANNY Right SHALL retract...
Bill shouldda stuck to Guv'nin'!!

Blue skies above...clear streams below...
The Lib'rals' reign...is damnear o'er!!
The Clinton Curse has been DETHRONED!!
We celebrate Truth's New Mornin'!!!

MUD (9/25/00)