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All The News That Fits...Their Agenda By William A. Mayer In what reads like a stupid April Fools joke, Bernard Weinraub and Thom Shanker are continuing Howell Raines’ and his New York Times’ war on the Bush administration and in particular on Operation Iraqi Freedom [the entire Time’ lead page is veritably reeking with negativity and sophomoric second guessing] with an article entitled Rumsfield’s Plan For War Criticized On Battlefield. The piece creates a mood of despair, an impression that battlefield leaders are in near rebellion against the Pentagon and that the Joint Chiefs are fractured along intricate lines...

Although it was quickly downplayed as simple fatigue, President Bush's public dressing-down of NBC News White House correspondent David Gregory highlights the disgraceful way in which television network news correspondents often define "objectivity." During a joint press conference with French President Jacques Chirac some weeks back, Gregory asked President Bush why "there are such strong sentiments in Europe against you and against this administration?" He continued, " Why, particularly, there's a view that you and your administration are trying to impose America's will on the rest of the world, particularly when it comes to the Middle East and where...

NewsMax.com   Monday May 27, 2002; 11:28 a.m. EDTBush Bristles as NBC Reporter asks Why Euros Hate Him NBC reporter David Gregory drew a White House rebuff yesterday after he tried to goad President Bush about anti-American demonstrations in Europe during a Paris press conference. "I wonder why it is you think there are such strong sentiments in Europe against you and against this administration?" Gregory taunted sarcastically as French President Jacques Chirac looked on. Then, continuing in the same vein, he added, "Why, particularly, there's a view that you and your administration are trying to impose America's will on...

<p>PARIS — President Bush yesterday derisively challenged press claims of widespread anti-Americanism in Europe and ridiculed an American TV correspondent for suggesting as much — in English and French — to him and French President Jacques Chirac.</p> <p>"So you go to a protest and I drive through the streets of Berlin, seeing hundreds of people lining the road, waving," Mr. Bush muttered to NBC News White House correspondent David Gregory during a joint press conference with Mr. Chirac.</p>