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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (229392)	2/21/2002 9:32:38 AM
From: Dr. Doktor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

FROM THE REAL OFFICE OF MEDIA DISINFORMATION An Exposé of Media Corruption If ever there was an example of liberal bias in the "mainstream" media, this is it. CBS' "60 Minutes" program and its host, Mike Wallace, engaged in dishonest tactics and the spreading of misinformation in what can only be regarded as efforts to remain faithful to the Clinton point of view. While one bad apple shouldn't tarnish the entire news industry, this is but one of many examples of major news networks doing the bidding of the Clinton White House. It's hard not to be cynical that the entire "mainstream" media is hopelessly liberal, non-objective, biased, and corrupt. CBS and Mike Wallace should be ashamed of themselves and the unprofessional shenanigans they resorted to in order to distort reality to conform to their pre-determined conclusions. Since watching this video, I have refused to watch anything on CBS. And I have lost any respect I might have had for Mike Wallace. The American people are extremely busy. They cannot take the time and energy to investigate each and every news item. So it is the responsibility of news sources to do the research and to present ALL the facts. When that process breaks down, as it has with the "mainstream" media during the Clinton years, people are left in the dark as to what is really happening; or worse, they are only told one side of a story, giving a false impression of what is really happening. Those of us who claim that the "mainstream" media regularly practices liberal bias are frequently dismissed as cranks and know-nothings. But the accusation of liberal bias does not rest on the fact that 89% of the media votes liberal/Democrat. It rests on the words of the mainstream media itself. I ask the reader to review the small sample of quotes below and ask yourself if you can imagine these words being uttered by the "mainstream" media on behalf of conservatives/Republicans? (in an objective media, these types of praises and accolades shouldn't be uttered at all) "If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners...Thank you very much and tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we’re pulling for her." --Dan Rather at a May 27, 1993 CBS affiliates meeting talking via satellite to President Clinton about his new on-air partnership with Connie Chung as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News. "Mr. President, we love you. I want to hug you, I want to hug you, please do the right thing. This is nothing, this is nothing. Thomas Jefferson did not have this in mind, I swear to God....I would give Ken Starr the Nobel Peace Prize were he to be man enough not to refer a sex lie to the House for impeachment. We’ll be right back, stay tuned folks" --Geraldo Rivera urging Clinton not to cooperate, August 6, 1998 edition of Rivera Live on CNBC. "Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming....Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don’t have to be dirty words: the nation can’t be run by an angry two-year-old." --ABC’s Peter Jennings in his radio commentary after the GOP won the House, Nov. 14, 1994. "Next week on ABC’s World News Tonight, a series of reports about our environment which will tell you precisely what the new Congress has in mind: the most frontal assault on the environment in 25 years. Is this what the country wants? On ABC’s World News Tonight next week." --Peter Jennings in an ABC promo during the July 9, 1995 This Week with David Brinkley. "The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person." --USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary Inside Washington host Tina Gulland: "I don’t think I have any Jesse Helms defenders here. Nina?" Nina Totenberg: "Not me, I think he ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it." --National Public Radio and ABC News reporter Nina Totenberg reacting to Senator Jesse Helms’ claim that the government spends too much on AIDS research, July 8, 1995 Inside Washington.