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  • Ex-CBS News Reporter Tom Fenton on "Hardball" tonight

    03/03/2005 4:16:33 PM PST · by RatherBiased.com · 18 replies · 1,806+ views
    Tom Fenton, the ex-CBS overseas reporter and author of "Bad News," the unofficial sequel to Bernard Goldberg's Bias and Arrogance will be appearing on MSNBC's "Hardball" in a few minutes. We've seen the book and in many ways the book extends Goldberg's argument to say not only have journalists been liberally biased (he speaks favorably of Goldberg's book) and arrogant, they're also lazy and think TV news should be dumbed down. Fenton also compares the "peace dividend" attitude that prevailed in foreign policy in the 90s with the cutbacks in foreign news coverage during that time period. Both attitudes, he...
  • Book Questions the Validity of Coverage by Network News(Did Media Inattention Contribute to 911?)

    02/11/2005 10:34:38 AM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 5 replies · 521+ views
    HoustonChronical ^ | Jan. 24, 2005-- | HOWARD KURTZ
    Ex-CBS [Note: retired] reporter says saving money took priority over content, accuracy.. WASHINGTON - In late 1996, veteran CBS foreign correspondent Tom Fenton pitched his network on a plan to use Saudi connections to land an interview with Osama bin Laden. "Our bosses saw him as an obscure Arab of no interest to our viewers," Fenton says. "More concerned with saving dollars than pursuing the story, they killed the project." Months later, Fenton says, he sat down with an Arab journalist who had interviewed bin Laden and described his violent designs on America, but "our navel-gazing executives" left that part...