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On January 4, NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep noted that Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas had described Israel as the “Zionist enemy.” But the NPR anchor didn’t tell listeners the context of Abbas’ remark: Seven Palestinian children working in their families’ strawberry fields had just been killed by Israeli forces. Abbas referred to the […]
His CNN show Crossfire was canceled, but conservative pundit Tucker Carlson already appears to have a new cable news home lined up: a primetime show on MSNBC (USA Today, 12/20/04; Daily Variety, 12/21/04). With the departure of host Deborah Norville, MSNBC is reportedly considering Carlson to fill the 9 p.m. timeslot. His show would lead […]
Journalistic Brown-Nosing: Then…. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: Now you know I’m going to be sitting there waiting. ABC‘s Barbara Walters: You’re so full of baloney. How can you be so marvelous, so fantastic, so interesting, so brilliant and so full of…. That’s the first question I’m going to ask you. Kissinger: Only if you […]
The Los Angeles Times revealed last year (12/1/04) that the U.S. military lied to CNN in the course of executing psychological warfare operations, or PSYOPS, in advance of the November attack on Fallujah. In an October 14 on-air interview, Marine Lt. Lyle Gilbert told CNN Pentagon reporter Jamie McIntyre that a U.S. military assault on […]
Judging by the amount of coverage it has received, you’d think that the CBS‘s investigation into its flawed report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service was the most important media issue facing the country. Shortly after the report about Bush’s Guard service aired on 60 Minutes last September (9/8/04), right-wing commentators and internet bloggers […]
