Post by Matter on Oct 24, 2004 13:07:37 GMT -5
www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/perkins/20041015-9999-lz1e15perkins.html
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"Where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester."
– John Stossel
Correspondent, ABC News[/b]
"The media, I think, want Kerry to win."
– Evan Thomas
Assistant managing editor, Newsweek[/i]
For much of this election year, George W. Bush has been under attack not only from John Kerry and his fellow Democrats, but also from the preponderantly liberal "mainstream" media.
In just the past month, CBS News has aired a scurrilous report, based on likely fraudulent documents, abetted by discredited sources, casting aspersions upon Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard.
Meanwhile, ABC News staffers have been advised by political director Mark Halperin that they need not hold Bush and Kerry " 'equally' accountable" for the claims they make during the presidential campaign.
Bush deserves more critical coverage, Halperin suggested, in an internal memo, because of supposed Republican "efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions."
So it is abundantly clear, to all but the most disingenuous (or dishonest), that the mainstream media have chosen sides in the presidential election. The news networks, the major newspapers (and magazines) overwhelmingly favor Kerry.
That's why it is so ironic that the Kerry campaign, that the Democrat Party, is in such high dudgeon over plans by the Sinclair Broadcast Group to televise a special next week examining the Democrat standard-bearer's post-Vietnam anti-war activism.
Sinclair, which owns the nation's largest chain of television stations and reaches nearly one-quarter of American households, has instructed its stations to block out time to air the 42-minute documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal."
In the film, produced by Carlton Sherwood, a decorated Vietnam veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former prisoners of war tell the stories of their brutal captivity in North Vietnam.
They recall the additional hardships they suffered at the hands of their Communist captors who read them the words of anti-war activist Kerry accusing American soldiers of atrocities, who demanded that the American POWs confess to the "war crimes" young Kerry alleged.
Democrats accuse Sinclair of tilting to Bush for scheduling "Stolen Honor" so close to Election Day.
"It's beyond yellow journalism," sneered Kerry campaign spokesman David Wade. "It's an "illegal in-kind campaign contribution to the Bush-Cheney campaign," snarled Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Meanwhile, a group of 20 Democrat senators, led by California's Dianne Feinstein, wrote a letter this week to the Federal Communications Commission urging the regulatory body to investigate Sinclair.
The lawmakers asked the FCC to determine whether the broadcast group's plan to televise "Stolen Honor" over its 62 stations "represents a proper use of public airwaves or if, instead, it would violate fairness rules now in place."
The Democrats are hypocrites. They don't mind that The New York Times is a liberal newspaper, as Okrent acknowledged, that ABC hates conservatives, as Stossel confirmed, that the media want Kerry to win the presidential election, as Thomas attested.
But they despise talk radio, because conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage dominate the medium. They hate FOX News, because it does not bend to the left like its network news rivals.
And, now, they have added Sinclair Broadcast Group to their list of media enemies. Because the television chain dares to air a documentary that reflects badly upon their party's presidential nominee.
Democrats have enjoyed preferential media coverage for so long that they are kicking and screaming now that the media playing field is inching closer to level.
They wish they could go back 20 years ago – before Rush, before FOX News, before Sinclair – when they could count on the media to be almost exclusively on their side.
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Woe is unto the liberals. ;D
Is The New York Times a liberal newspaper? "Of course it is."
– Daniel Okrent
Public editor, The New York Times
– Daniel Okrent
Public editor, The New York Times
"Where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester."
– John Stossel
Correspondent, ABC News[/b]
"The media, I think, want Kerry to win."
– Evan Thomas
Assistant managing editor, Newsweek[/i]
For much of this election year, George W. Bush has been under attack not only from John Kerry and his fellow Democrats, but also from the preponderantly liberal "mainstream" media.
In just the past month, CBS News has aired a scurrilous report, based on likely fraudulent documents, abetted by discredited sources, casting aspersions upon Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard.
Meanwhile, ABC News staffers have been advised by political director Mark Halperin that they need not hold Bush and Kerry " 'equally' accountable" for the claims they make during the presidential campaign.
Bush deserves more critical coverage, Halperin suggested, in an internal memo, because of supposed Republican "efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions."
So it is abundantly clear, to all but the most disingenuous (or dishonest), that the mainstream media have chosen sides in the presidential election. The news networks, the major newspapers (and magazines) overwhelmingly favor Kerry.
That's why it is so ironic that the Kerry campaign, that the Democrat Party, is in such high dudgeon over plans by the Sinclair Broadcast Group to televise a special next week examining the Democrat standard-bearer's post-Vietnam anti-war activism.
Sinclair, which owns the nation's largest chain of television stations and reaches nearly one-quarter of American households, has instructed its stations to block out time to air the 42-minute documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal."
In the film, produced by Carlton Sherwood, a decorated Vietnam veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former prisoners of war tell the stories of their brutal captivity in North Vietnam.
They recall the additional hardships they suffered at the hands of their Communist captors who read them the words of anti-war activist Kerry accusing American soldiers of atrocities, who demanded that the American POWs confess to the "war crimes" young Kerry alleged.
Democrats accuse Sinclair of tilting to Bush for scheduling "Stolen Honor" so close to Election Day.
"It's beyond yellow journalism," sneered Kerry campaign spokesman David Wade. "It's an "illegal in-kind campaign contribution to the Bush-Cheney campaign," snarled Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Meanwhile, a group of 20 Democrat senators, led by California's Dianne Feinstein, wrote a letter this week to the Federal Communications Commission urging the regulatory body to investigate Sinclair.
The lawmakers asked the FCC to determine whether the broadcast group's plan to televise "Stolen Honor" over its 62 stations "represents a proper use of public airwaves or if, instead, it would violate fairness rules now in place."
The Democrats are hypocrites. They don't mind that The New York Times is a liberal newspaper, as Okrent acknowledged, that ABC hates conservatives, as Stossel confirmed, that the media want Kerry to win the presidential election, as Thomas attested.
But they despise talk radio, because conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage dominate the medium. They hate FOX News, because it does not bend to the left like its network news rivals.
And, now, they have added Sinclair Broadcast Group to their list of media enemies. Because the television chain dares to air a documentary that reflects badly upon their party's presidential nominee.
Democrats have enjoyed preferential media coverage for so long that they are kicking and screaming now that the media playing field is inching closer to level.
They wish they could go back 20 years ago – before Rush, before FOX News, before Sinclair – when they could count on the media to be almost exclusively on their side.
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Woe is unto the liberals. ;D
