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To: stockman_scott who wrote (25036)	5/24/2004 10:16:25 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 81568

Media silence "After barrels of ink and hours of breathless TV promotion, the Air America radio network has gone from its media boost to a quick bust," the Media Research Center's Tim Graham writes at www.mediaresearch.org. Click to learn more... Click to learn more... "After just two weeks, the six-station network went off the air in Chicago and Los Angeles on April 14. By April 27, CEO Mark Walsh had left. On May 7, co-founder Evan Cohen signed off. On May 10, the network disbanded its Chicago and Los Angeles sales offices, laying off 15 to 20 people," Mr. Graham says. "Then, on May 14, the Chicago Tribune revealed that one inside source said, 'Chicago staffers were never enrolled in a health insurance plan, though Air America promised coverage and deducted health insurance premiums from their paychecks.' Would that spur a juicy liberal-hypocrisy story in the middle of what big-government lobbies touted as 'Cover the Uninsured Week' (May 10-14)? No. "A quick review of the media coverage shows a very biased pattern of boosterism followed by radio silence," said Mr. Graham, citing the lavish coverage of Air America's debut by ABC, NBC, NPR, CNN, Newsweek, the New York Times and The Washington Post, but little if any coverage of the subsequent woes. "These ongoing struggles may not seem like big breaking news. But by that standard, neither was the dinky network's launch, either," Mr. Graham said. "What the national media promoted as the roar of a new liberal lion turned out to be the quiet whimper of a sickly kitten."

To: stockman_scott who wrote (25036)	5/24/2004 10:27:24 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

White liar Political activist/director Michael Moore has taken the Cannes Film Festival by storm with his new Bush-bashing project "Fahrenheit 9/11." Not sending roses is Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard. Click to learn more... Click to learn more... "A few years ago, Michael Moore ... in his first best-selling book 'Stupid White Men' ... wrote he'd once been 'forced' to listen to my comments on a TV chat show, 'The McLaughlin Group,' " Mr. Barnes writes in the upcoming issue of the Standard. "I had whined 'on and on about the sorry state of American education,' Moore said, and wound up bellowing: 'These kids don't even know what "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are!' "Moore's interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. 'Fred,' he quoted himself as saying, 'tell me what The Iliad and The Odyssey are.' I started 'hemming and hawing,' Moore wrote. And then I said, according to Moore: 'Well, they're ... uh ... you know ... uh ... OK, fine, you got me — I don't know what they're about. Happy now?' He'd smoked me out as a fraud, or maybe worse. "The only problem is none of this is true," Mr. Barnes says. "Moore is a liar. He made it up. It's a fabrication on two levels. One, I've never met Moore or even talked to him on the phone. And, two, I read both 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' in my first year at the University of Virginia. Just for the record, I learned what they were about even before college." Mr. Barnes has an idea who should look into Mr. Moore's "lies and distortions." Al Franken has taken special interest in public liars, writing a best seller called "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Al, the Moore case is now in your court.