Objective reporting...?!
Jul. 25th, 2004 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI happened to be upstairs a few minutes ago to see if there is any coverage of the final minutes of the Tour de France. There is, but it's on a subscription channel, so I decided to hit CNN and Fox News to see if there might be some coverage there.
I switched to CNN just in time to catch an item about some Republican Senator who apparently is under investigation for leaking some al-Qaeda memos. What I found, um, interesting about the report was the accompanying video: a shot of the Senator appearing on stage with GWB, both smiling, and then cutting to a tight shot of the President by himself, all while the voiceover was continuing to speak about the allegation of wrongdoing against the Senator.
Can anyone point me at a major news outlet's reporting -- if you could call it that -- of the Sandy Berger affair that featured Sandy Berger and John Kerry together on the screen? Heck, as far as I can recall, not only did nothing of the sort appear on the TV, but Berger was 'demoted' over the course of two days of news reports from being a "Kerry advisor," to an "informal, unpaid Kerry advisor," all while a major effort was under way to switch the focus of the story from what Berger almost certainly did -- and I can't understand why everyone seems so calm about this; hell, Winona Ryder generated more flurry with her shoplifting caper -- to the timing and motivation behind making the news public?
I can't say much about the timing of the CNN report, but the motivation, I think, is obvious.
Cheers...
I switched to CNN just in time to catch an item about some Republican Senator who apparently is under investigation for leaking some al-Qaeda memos. What I found, um, interesting about the report was the accompanying video: a shot of the Senator appearing on stage with GWB, both smiling, and then cutting to a tight shot of the President by himself, all while the voiceover was continuing to speak about the allegation of wrongdoing against the Senator.
Can anyone point me at a major news outlet's reporting -- if you could call it that -- of the Sandy Berger affair that featured Sandy Berger and John Kerry together on the screen? Heck, as far as I can recall, not only did nothing of the sort appear on the TV, but Berger was 'demoted' over the course of two days of news reports from being a "Kerry advisor," to an "informal, unpaid Kerry advisor," all while a major effort was under way to switch the focus of the story from what Berger almost certainly did -- and I can't understand why everyone seems so calm about this; hell, Winona Ryder generated more flurry with her shoplifting caper -- to the timing and motivation behind making the news public?
I can't say much about the timing of the CNN report, but the motivation, I think, is obvious.
Cheers...
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Date: 2004-07-26 04:08 am (UTC)