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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lazarre who wrote (15651)	6/5/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Same as the rest of the media types. That''s where he came up with the idea. JLA

To: lazarre who wrote (15651)	6/5/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

From transcript of his National Press Club speech Tue.: MR. HARBRECHT: Okay. Fair enough. (Applause). Could you-could you succeed as a journalist, if you worked for an organization which required an accuracy rate of 100 percent, instead of 70 or 80 percent? ÿ MR. DRUDGE: I don't know what organization that would be. (Scattered laughter.) (Applause.) I once gave a quote-you know, I do a lot of predictions. I have The Truman Show making $300 million. I once gave a quote that "Oh, I guess I'm 80 percent accurate, the body of my work." Newsweek magazine, and then Karen Breslau, who I happened to see in the courtroom-in the courthouse hallways-she's on the pay phone, she says, "Oh, Matt Drudge, my name's Karen Breslau." "Oh, I know you. You're the one who made up a quote on me." She-she reported Drudge is going to have trouble with his lawsuit, because his-he claims his sources are, quote, "Eighty percent reliable." I've never talked about the reliability of my sources. I said "Karen, you made that up!" She shrugged her shoulders: "Whatever." This is-this is mainstream press, this is-these are the-the-that bothers me. Recently, after the White House Correspondents' Dinner, I was walking down Connecticut Avenue with the top editor at one of these national magazines. And he was trying to get one of my pals to give him more information on some story that the pal has some information on. And the pal said, "No, no. You haven't been very good on conservative things," to the editor of the magazine. "I don't think I'm going to help you. You know, you-you just take-you take, you know, stories and print them, and they hurt conservatives." The editor of this magazine, which I won't name, says, "We just take what they give us." Now, if this is the standard-if this is the skyscraper up on Sixth Avenue that I want to dream about, I'd rather stay in my dirty Hollywood apartment. I just don't take what people give me. I tend to at least try to frame it with an angle that would consider both sides-provocative stuff. ÿ

To: lazarre who wrote (15651)	6/5/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

>>The Drudge Report??? Is that the same guy who thought if he got 70% of the story straight he'd be doin alright???<< laBizarre, that's still 50% better than your guys at Salon!!! Because you cannot deny the truth of that headline you attack its source. Typical diversion. >>ROFLAO!!!!!!!!!!!<< The insane often laugh when things get serious.

To: lazarre who wrote (15651)	6/5/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Well the mainstream press may be biased, but at least they're accurate: UNDEAD BOB HOPE In what is being described as 'total embarrassment,' ABC NEWS on Friday erroneously reported the death of Bob Hope in a special national news alert, complete with a Bob Hope death package of clip and performance. ABC NEWS reported Bob Hope dead, citing congress and REUTERS as its source. During the breaking news on ABC RADIO, it has been learned, Bob Hope's publicist called and said Bob was still alive and eating breakfast. ABC NEWS RADIO then corrected the story, live on air, during its initial report. Bob Hope's daughter Linda on Friday called REUTERS to tell the wire that her father had not died: 'There is no truth in it. Dad is at home, having his breakfast, at this point. He is fine.' What started it all? Rep. Stump [R - AZ] said Bob Hope had passed away on the floor of the House. 'What? He's not dead? We've just assigned 8 reporters on it,' a WASHINGTON POST insider told the DRUDGE REPORT late Friday afternoon. In January, ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE devoted a show to the perils of speed Internet reporting and the danger of false information being circulated online without fact-checkers and editors. An ABC NEWS spokesman tells the DRUDGE REPORT: "Do we regret that this went out? Yes. If we knew that there was no death, we wouldn't have reported at all, anything about Bob Hope. But in an effort to report was there as an urgent on the wires, quoting what a congressman had said on the floor of the House, we've had to sort it out." It is not clear if the network called Bob Hope's agent or family for confirmation before issuing their death alert. ABC NEWS RADIO later reported, Rep. Stump received the initial Hope Death Bulletin from House Majority leader Dick Armey, who had received the news from an office staffer that claimed to have downloaded the report from an ASSOCIATED PRESS website. The ASSOCIATED PRESS issues a statement: "The AP is aware of the erroneous reports that Bob Hope died today. Hope is fine and was just having breakfast at his Toluca Lake, Calif., home, according to both his longtime publicist Ward Grant and his personal secretary Jan Morrill. "We will move a Washington-dated story explaining how the rumor got started on the floor of the House of Representatives."