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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (42900)	4/23/2005 10:55:11 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 173976

Actually, Hyde didn't "admit" anything, not that it matters. The ABC station here in Chicago pulled the original story. As detailed in the following article, Mr. Shaw, who appears to have had a bit of an agenda, got a bit carried away. Clinton gave his enemies an opening and pissed away a good chunk of his second term because he refused to tell the truth under oath about an inconsequential issue. Posted on Sat, Apr. 23, 2005 Hyde reflects, Shaw reports, Web site revises BY PHIL ROSENTHAL Chicago Tribune CHICAGO - (KRT) - Signing off his exclusive interview with retiring U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde, WLS-Ch. 7 political reporter Andy Shaw said on a newscast Thursday it would be interesting to see what happened when Hyde's comments hit the national media. It was interesting all right, but Shaw's report hit the Internet first, and the Internet hit back. The abc7chicago.com version of Shaw's story ignited a brief but intense blogstorm of controversy Friday. First it drew online scrutiny. Then it vanished from the station's Web site. Finally it resurfaced an hour or so later with a series of revisions. The Drudge Report and other Web sites immediately sniffed scandal when the report was pulled, if only because its initial headline was such an eye-opener. As confirmed by station management, it said, "Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman." Station bosses, however, compared the situation to a newspaper editing a story as events warrant, though in this case the story was based on a transcript of Shaw's already aired report. The revised Web site headline atop Shaw's report was far softer: "Rep. Hyde reflects on 30 years of office." Some changes were made for clarity. But a paraphrasing of Shaw's on-air assertion that Hyde's "style will be missed, if not his ideology" was clipped because it was commentary. "It's always my preference that reporters report," WLS chief Emily Barr said Friday. In an earlier era, when what was said on newscasts vanished instantly into the ether, Chicago viewers might have been jolted for a moment and then slumped back into bed. And had Shaw (who did not return a reporter's calls Friday afternoon) attributed the opinion to someone, anyone, he might have gotten away with it, even today with the whole World Wide Web watching. But posted on the Internet, his report was digital red meat, and those apt to devour it were none too happy to have their meal pulled away, if only briefly. "ABC yanks story in which Republican says Clinton impeachment linked to Nixon's fall, citing editorializing," rawstory.com said. Shaw had asked Hyde, a DuPage County Republican, if the impeachment of President Clinton was "payback" for the proceedings against President Nixon. "I can't say it wasn't," Hyde told him in the interview. "But I also thought that the Republican Party should stand for something, and if we walked away from this, no matter how difficult, we could be accused of shirking our duty." On WLS' 10 p.m. newscast Shaw characterized this as Hyde "admitting for the first time that the impeachment of Clinton was in part political revenge against the Democrats for impeaching a GOP president, Richard Nixon, 25 years earlier." WLS' online version eventually was edited to say Hyde believed Clinton's impeachment "may have been" partly revenge for the Nixon "impeachment proceedings," adding an online footnote to acknowledge that Nixon resigned before the full House voted on articles of impeachment against him. What will the national media think? <snip> philly.com