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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (13461)	11/6/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Hmmmmm, First Amendment or labor unions. Which should I support? Answer is clear for Califorina democrats: *Media Research Center CyberAlert* Friday November 6, 1998 (Vol. Three; No. 181) ABC News this week has displayed all the technical smoothness of a local cable access show. Ted Koppel spent more time on Tuesday's Nightline trying to find the right camera and figuring out which guest had both sound and picture, and could hear Koppel without an echo, than conducting interviews. It's all because NABET, the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians, staged a walkout on Monday. Angered by the unannounced labor action, since Tuesday ABC has locked out the technicians. This has led Good Morning America to cancel a West Coast trip, move World News Now to London and.....interview no liberals since top Democratic politicians have decided to support the people who refused to do their jobs on Monday. In the November 5 Washington Post reporter Lisa de Moraes described some of the impact on ABC. Here's an excerpt: ....ABC crews were asked to leave the headquarters of California Democratic gubernatorial winner Gray Davis Tuesday afternoon and police removed ABC crews from the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco where Sen. Barbara Boxer was celebrating her reelection Tuesday night. Both Davis and Boxer won with strong backing from organized labor. In both cases, ABC got injunctions that permitted their news crews to return to the Democratic gatherings. The network argued that the Democrats were violating ABC's First Amendment rights.... In addition to technical glitches that resulted from the use of fill-in staff, ABC's election reports were noticeably missing interviews with Democratic politicians, who heeded NABET's boycott. That included Davis and Boxer in California. But they weren't the only Democrats to cold-shoulder ABC News. The day before the elections, Gore canceled an interview for Good Morning America. Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, head of the Democratic National Committee, also backed out of an appearance on the morning news show.... But politicians weren't the only people giving ABC the brushoff. Sandler, whose movie "The Waterboy" opens tomorrow, canceled a Good Morning America appearance yesterday. The NABET battle also drove the network's World News Now 2-5 a.m. program out of the country and over to London. "Given the circumstances, it makes sense to use all available facilities, and London is certainly an equipped and available facility," ABC News spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said.... With so much bad karma coming out of California, ABC yesterday decided to scrap its plans to take "Good Morning America" on the road to California next week. Anchors Lisa McRee and Kevin Newman were to have hosted the show from San Francisco, Carmel, Los Angeles and San Diego. Instead, they're staying in New York. That's a big blow to the ratings-starved morning show.... END Excerpt Liberals can afford to boycott ABC News since they know their views will be well represented by the sympathetic news staff. (One Democrat didn't follow the marching orders: North Carolina Senator-elect John Edwards appeared on Wednesday's GMA, but otherwise no Democratic officials appeared Wednesday or Thursday morning, MRC news analyst Jessica Anderson observed.)