Media Comparison: Gore Aide's 2000 Conviction Barely Reported
Media Research Center
As the network TV onslaught on the Scooter Libby conviction continues, remember that on March 2, 2000, an aide to the Vice President was convicted of illegal funneling foreign money to Democrats, crimes that benefited the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. Her name was Maria Hsia (pronounced like Shaw). Vice President Gore at that time was the all-but-certain Democratic nominee for President.
Coverage was minimal. ABC gave it 19 seconds and CBS gave it 23 seconds. On NBC, Tom Brokaw skipped it.
See the March 13, 2000 CyberAlert: www.mrc.org
A few days later on the Imus in the Morning show, Brokaw had this telling exchange on Gore:
Imus: "He acted like he barely knew that this Maria Hsia, didn't he? Like he was ready to drag her up out of a park someplace."
Brokaw agreed: "Oh, I know, yeah, it was: 'Did I miss that?' It was as if he were saying, 'Did she get convicted?' He said, 'It's still in the courts.' It's no longer in the courts! The jury has ruled! Guilty! Five counts!
Imus shot back: "Well, if he's watching NBC News he missed it."
Brokaw conceded: "Yeah, well that's true."
Imus: "And he only saw 19 seconds of it with Dan [Rather]."
Brokaw: "Yeah, I know."
[This item, by Tim Graham, was posted Tuesday on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
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