I Think We May Need More Than A Little Revolution
-- Lorie Byrd
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For those on the left (like Al Gore) who actually argue that there is no leftwing bias in the MSM, the Katrina hurricane coverage should remove all doubt. I got pretty fired up Saturday about the failure of those at CNN and MSNBC to give adequate coverage to the story that Major Garrett broke last week at Fox. Now, Michelle Malkin has another example that should embarrass the pants off of CNN and quite a few others. (But it won’t.)
They were evidently in such a rush to connect the companies getting contracts to help in the Katrina rebuilding effort to President Bush and those in his current and past administrations that they completely overlooked (or chose not to report) a rather relevant fact. Michelle Malkin has the story:
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The Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group, CNN tells us, is a major corporate client of Joe Allbaugh, President Bush’s former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Among its Katrina-related contracts are this one valued up to $100 million from FEMA; and this one also valued up to $100 million from the Army Corps of Engineers.
But in their zeal to embarrass the Bush administration, CNN overlooks one very fat and inconvenient fact–and embarrasses only itself.
The Shaw Group, a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, is headed by Jim Bernhard, the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Bernhard worked tirelessly for Democrat Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s runoff campaign and served as co-chair of her transition team. Another Shaw executive was Blanco’s campaign manager. Bernhard is back-scratching chums with Blanco, whom he has lent/offered the Shaw Group’s corporate jets to on numerous occasions.
So, why was none of this mentioned in CNN’s Bush-profiteers-are-evil narrative? Send them a clue here.
Fortunately for CNN, they weren’t the only ones guilty of this glaring omission:
UPI failed to note that the CEO of the Shaw Group also happens to be the Louisiana Democratic Party chairman and beleaguered La. Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s most influential crony.
So did the London Observer.
And Reuters/MSNBC. And the CBC.
And the NYTimes (reprinted in the Minnesota Star Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Scotsman, and scores of media outlets around the world).
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Saturday I said we needed a little revolution against the media outlets that are continually misleading and misinforming their readers and viewers. I guess that we in the new media are the revolution, but I have to admit that things are not moving fast enough for me. We have an abundance of evidence showing that the MSM is betraying their readers and viewers by giving them an incomplete and often misleading version of the news. Is it necessary that we show that a news outlet relied on obviously faked documents in order to ever get them to admit their bias? But then again, Dan Rather still hasn’t admitted that, has he?
UPDATE: Ace has the story of “storytelling” by CNN:
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Jonathan Klein, he of the “pajamas” remark (one year and one day ago), says that CNN’s future lies not with news reporting but “storytelling,” some sort of hybrid of news and strong dramatic narrative. You know– kind of made-up fictitious shit with a pleasing emotional resonance.
Well, here’s some storytelling in action:
The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were
piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits,
are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break
out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A
Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN
last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer
to “get angry.”
That’s from liberal hatchet man Michael Kinsley, writing in the LA Times, so I kinda doubt he’s lying to serve his master Karl Rove (Our Satanic Father, Who Art Commuting Between Hell and the White House).
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