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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (255225)	5/15/2002 1:41:02 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Nah, I bought it for .25cents and sold when it bounced to .90cents a share. Check out what the wonderful liberal Big Media is up to these days. It's bad enough this poor family has to suffer the death of their father and husband. Now they have to suffer through the heartless CBS liberal news media's exploitation of the event. Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:12 a.m. EDT Danny Pearl's Widow Condemns Dan Rather newsmax.com The wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl slammed "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather for his network's decision Tuesday night to air excerpts of a grisly video showing her husband's death. "[While Rather] attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable terrorist propaganda video, it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," an outraged Marianne Pearl said in a statement issued after Rather's report. Rather tried to justify the decision beforehand, telling his audience, "Enemies of this country are spreading on the Internet a gruesome piece of propaganda." Then he proceeded to give the offensive tape its widest audience yet. The video, which a CBS News spokesman said they obtained from a dissident Arab journalist, shows Pearl admitting to being Jewish before being slashed across the throat. Rather aired only a 30-second excerpt from the first part and did not show Pearl's gory execution. Mrs. Pearl urged other networks not to follow Rather's sensationalist example, complaining that CBS had played into the hands of America's worst enemies. "Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose," she lamented. The network decided to air the macabre footage over the objections of Secretary of State Colin Powell's office and the Justice Department, both of which urged CBS to change its mind before airtime. "The government called to tell us that what we were doing was helping to spread the terrorists' word and I don't think that's the case," Jim Murphy, executive producer of the "Evening News," told the Associated Press. "The word is already being spread. I don't think it's wrong to inform the American people about it." CBS's decision to run the headline-grabbing video despite the lack of any real news value stands in stark contrast to Rather's news embargo last year on the Gary Condit-Chandra Levy story, which he declined to cover for weeks because of its tabloid nature.