Bias, a CBS Insider Exposes How the Medi a Distort

“LOL! What edition were your reading XL?

Can you back this up with a page citation?”

“The truth is just beyond my grasp. Try again with more content.”

“YAWWWN./..okay Ped

http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200407121105.asp

Um might want to check the multiple references in the article to back up the writing since this is not a REUTERS/CBS/CNN/NBC/ABC/PMSNBC source for you guys.”

“Wow XL you made me waste a lot of time reading re-hashed spin.

You wrote "Mr Valerie Plame even admits his statements were a lie (in his book) he did infact find proof of the attempt to purchase yellow cake.”

Your link doesn't even begin to back that up. So, lets keep it simple - on what page of Wilson's book does he "admit" this?

I challenge you to actually think one through and get to the hard evidence.”

“AH well it is amazing that good accurate truth is ignored but you line up like a lemming for a run to the sea around the Leftist Ideas.”

“You wrote "Mr Valerie Plame even admits his statements were a lie (in his book) he did infact find proof of the attempt to purchase yellow cake.”

Your link doesn't even begin to back that up. So, lets keep it simple - on what page of Wilson's book does he "admit" this?


”

“LOL...so if he is writing stuff that is openly incorrect with the history that is..."A minor mistake" for a libbie? OH thats right you are the ones who find it acceptable to use the 'I lied to my diary" as a defense....”

“Brought to you from the "it may be incorrect but still requires investigation" people.”

“XL - You are doing the same thing. I ask you to back up a fact and you get petulant and insulting and change the subject. If you can't back it up, admit it. A little honesty is a good thing.

Where in his book is it that he "admits his statements were a lie (in his book)"?”

“This seems to happen every time I challenge one of your phractured phacts.”

“Jeez Ped, it's not easy to see that 400-pound gorilla over in the corner.”

“http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/08/wiraq308.xml

Neato....

Hero's tale is 'too positive' for the BBC
By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:56pm BST 07/04/2007


The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.”

“Did you notice the BBC also recently pulled our favorite programs.....Poirot and MidSommer Murders.........the bunch of azzhats............”

“http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/05/09/publiceye/entry2781778.shtml

clue needed by this idiot.”

“Yep this is pretty much how they would have done it.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=Px_XBJHrs4I”

“The Ratings Always Drop Twice
The Return of Inspector Dan Rather
by David Burge

They say dames are like a flowers. Maybe they’re right. Nice to look at, fun to smell, covered in complicated reproductive do-dads. But brother, get too close and you’ll also find out that they have thorns. And bees. And enough pollen to flood your sinus with a hot painful load of mucus that’ll take a jumbo economy size box of Claritin and a six pack of hankies to forget.

It’s a hard lesson you learn every day in my line of work.

My name is Rather. And I’m a dick.

It was 5:15 and I had just finished typing up the final Abu Ghraib report (Dan Rather #23: The Prisoner Wore Panties) into my trusty Remington 17. Ever since my suspension at CBS (Dan Rather #21: Judgment at Black Rock) I was working down in Cable Hell’s Kitchen. A freelance investigative gig at HDNet, a smalltime news outfit wedged between MTV-6 and the Cubic Zirconia Channel. Not much money, but they didn’t ask too many questions and they didn’t have any nosy “fact checkers.” I had just pulled out my hip flask for a snort of Zima malt beverage when I saw a familiar silhouette in my office door. It was short and curvy with a pair upturned perky hairflips straight out of the CBS makeup department.

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t little Katie Couric,” I growled as she walked in. “Why are you slumming down here on the cable news docks? I thought a hotshot media deb like you’d be out sipping champagne out of you shoe, with the rest of the swells up on West 57th.”

She stood there, perky and defiant, atop a pair of muscular cheerleader’s calves that looked powerful enough to snap a co-anchor in two. But, at the same time, she looked strangely vulnerable. She heaved, just a little. Suddenly she burst into tears.

“Oh Danny, Danny, Danny!” she sobbed. “I’m in an awful fix! The auditors found over three million missing from the Nielsen account, and they’re blaming it on me! If… if I can’t come up with the missing viewers, the network boys downtown are gonna cut me loose, and I’m gonna end up on god-forsaken basic cable filler network like… like…”

“Like HDNet?”

“…Yes!”

She collapsed into my arms.

“Can the waterworks, sister! Maybe you should’ve thought about that before you ditched your nice little fluffy morning news bit in Perkyville! Maybe you should have realized the anchor desk is no place for a dame! Well, welcome to big time journalism baby!”

I slapped her hard.

“But… but you’re my last hope, Dan!”

I slapped her again, softer. Then she slapped me back, extremely hard. But not before I got one more good slap in. After trading a few more slaps I had her calmed down.

“Okay Couric. Maybe I’m a soft touch, but I’ll help you find those missing viewers.”

“You will?” she sniffled.

“Yes. Because this time it’s personal. And you’re gonna help me.”

“I am?”

“I’m gonna make a journalist out of you yet, baby.”

She moved up closer, eyes closed, lips parted longingly. For some reason, I decided to slap her again. She kicked me straight in the nuts.

Damn, those legs were powerful.
continued........ http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2007/06/the_ratings_alw.html”

“WOW...now in the present climate of political discourse we get Major media overload of how the libbies (read DEMS) keep kicking ass....but has anyone taken notice of two sorta MIDTERM elections recently?

No really have they...NOPE zip zero NADA>

Now one wonders why?



Then you delve deeper.

One was in the 10th district of Georgia....well there was a primary which under Georgia law has to be won with 50% plus 1 vote. So there was a runoff between...2 REPUBLICANS. There were democrats running....and yet NO MAJOR MEDIA COVERAGE...”

“WHAHAAHAHA...looks like WE were right all along

http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2007/20070717144258.aspx

As noted last night by the MRC's Brent Baker, "a Rasmussen Reports poll discovered that, by a margin of 2 to 1, the public recognize a liberal bias over a conservative bias on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR as well as in the New York Times and Washington Post."

Rasmussen's summary of the report, released on Friday, revealed: "Among the print publications in the survey, the New York Times is perceived as being furthest to the left. Forty percent (40%) of Americans believe the Times has a bias in favor of liberals. Just 11% believe it has a conservative bias while 20% believe it reports news without bias."”

“a dose of www.fair.org might help”

“I love it when Libbies use the term FAIR in their organizations....shades of Animal Farm crop up....Lumber did you check out the "background of these people?"

UM I THINK THIS ON THE Need for the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE..pretty much says it all

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2053

The reasons the Libbies want this form of Speech Control is that the Media (shown as being Blantantly Biased) is exempt.”

“Which news is 'Fairly Unbalanced'?”

“Looks to me like most of the mainstream media...GEE Un which one do you think is unbalanced...I mean I am quoting a reputable source here....”

“XL is gettin' all EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMOTIONAL again.”

“Cry me a river. Not only is this horse dead, it's completely decomposed.”

“WHAHAHAHA...but you guys keep quoting the Dead decomposed horse as a source....Or is that (Marky mark you are gonna love this one)


Yes its that favorite...the Libby Hypocrisy song...(LOL)


WHEN YOU HAVE LIBBIES LIBBIE LIBBIES
AT THE TABLE TABLE TABLE
THEY WILL CHANGE THE TERMS TO SUIT THEM
AS THEY ARE ABLE ABLE ABLE”

“I'll call you an waaaaaaanbulance for your obvious condition.”

“And as usual XL didnt bother to really read anything....”

“http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070810.asp#2

As Limbaugh Predicted, CBS Ignores Study
Casting Doubt on Warming

The CBS Evening News skipped, as Rush Limbuagh predicted the media would, a new study in which, as outlined in a press release, "the widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in new research from the University of Alabama in Huntsville." The posting on the university's site summarized the study published in a scientific journal: "Instead of creating more clouds, individual tropical warming cycles that served as proxies for global warming saw a decrease in the coverage of heat-trapping cirrus clouds, says Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAHuntsville's Earth System Science Center."”

“Good, I'm gona bet the farm on 'down feather' call options-where's that deed?”

“Reuters gets that sinking feeling
Fake Pictures, Again

Leigh Holmwood
Friday August 10, 2007
MediaGuardian.co.uk



News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.

The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week.

But it has now emerged that the footage actually showed two Finnish-made Mir submersibles that were employed on location filming at the scene of the wreck of the RMS Titanic ship in the north Atlantic some 10 years ago.

This footage was used in sequences in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster about the 1912 disaster.

The mistake was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy contacted a local newspaper to tell them the images looked identical to those used in the movie.

Reuters has admitted that it took the images from Russian state television channel RTR and wrongly captioned them as file footage originating from the Arctic.

RTR had also used the footage to illustrate stories about the North Pole expedition, but it is thought as library footage, and it never claimed it was actually of the flag-planting.

The pictures were first broadcast by RTR when the Russians were still several hours away from the North Pole.

Reuters distributed a package of clips that included the scenes from Titanic, alongside computer animations and footage of ships on the surface at the North Pole.

In its piece on the subject, two of the four Reuters pictures were from the Titanic filming.

Reuters has now apologised for the error and has made changes to its video material on the expedition, with captions denoting the various origins of the file footage used.

In a statement, Reuters said: "On August 2, 2007 in a TV story about two Russian submersibles planting a flag on the seabed under the North Pole, we used file shots of MIR submersibles as part of this story.

"Reuters mistakenly identified this file footage as originating from the Arctic, and not the North Atlantic where the footage was shot.

"This footage was taken during the search for the Titanic and copyright is held by Russian State broadcaster RTR.

"This location error was corrected as soon as it was brought to our attention. A still image of the submersibles was also taken from the footage and put out on the Reuters photo wire. The caption has been corrected."

The incident is doubly embarrassing for the agency since it follows a case in August last year in which it published an image by a freelancer of Israeli bombings in Lebanon that had been dramatised using photo manipulation, with the addition of smoke rising from allegedly burning buildings.

After that gaffe, Reuters promised to tighten up its controls on material being put out in its name.”

“How dare those bastards make a mistake. It's a libby conspiracy to show how great those (former) commies are!”

“Y2 you ignorant Brit LOLOL

Want to have sex? LOLOL VBG ;)”

“Disturbing!”

“
Far an' Balanced!

        guh-hilk

”

“Y2..Mistake????NO NO...spelling a word wrong is a MISTAKE, STEALING (which plagarisim is) an item INTENTIONALLY is theft ..its a crime.”

“XL - Reuters has agreements with TV stations all over the world to use their footage.
In simple terms for you it's like when watching Fox they may talk about their affiliate stations and use footage of it. A aerial view of a police chase for example.
last edited: 8/10/07 2:23:49 PM”

“A mistake?

Let's walk through the process ...

You work for Reuters, and you're piecing together your story. You've got the text done, and now you need a picture.

[shouting out] Hey! Does anybody have a picture of the Russian subs? Anybody? ... Anybody? ...

[thinking to self] What shall I do? I need a picture, but don't have one. Wait! What is this? It's a picture of the Russian subs, right here in our archive of movie footage of Titanic! What a wild coincidence!

[shouting out] Never mind! I found it! It's cool! Thanks a lot guys!

[humming to self] da-da-dum-dum-doobie-doobie ... [singing] I'll just put this picture of the Russian subs that I just happened to find in our archive of movies right here in my story ... [humming again] da-da-dum-dum-doobie-doobie ...”

“Well next time you talk about media bias, we can all refer back to this post to demonstrate your ignorance on how the news works. You got a little lost on your 'walk through'. Lets hope you're a little more diligent in your own career.”

“Interesting claim. Care to explain? Where did I get lost in the walk-thru (that was obviously a spoof)?”

“Elbows up, side to side
lean like a chollo.”

“Monday, Aug 13
Bill Plante's Having None of This Garden Party

As Karl Rove embraced President Bush today following an emotional farewell announcement on the South Lawn, the solemnity of the moment was shattered by Bill Plante of CBS, who bellowed to Bush: "If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/bill_plantes_having_none_of_this_garden_party_64986.asp”

“So typical of a CBS 'Reporter'.”

“Seems like a valid question to me!”

“Just forgetting about the obvious bias angle in that - consider how rude that question is, to ask anybody, let alone the President of the U.S. Shows how out of touch CBS and the MSM is.

I'd say it's a great question if you're a hateful 5th grader and haven't learned the meaning of the word respect. Seriously, think about it. That's really pathetic and considering the tone, CBS should offer a public apology to the President and fire that "reporter".”

“Bwaaaahahaha. The President should be apologizing to the world, starting with the entire populous of the U.S.

The man deserves NO respect and the fact that you think he does really shows how out of touch YOU are.”

“Rove probably knew they would self-destruct.”

“"It appears he is on the Cheney diet. We can only hope for a coronary...”
roseymonster
10:55:42 AM
8/13/07

What a hatefilled child.”

“Not even worth responding to.

You're the one who seems to share the five-year-old's interpretation of the new world order with the current dimwitted administration.
last edited: 8/13/07 12:21:53 PM”

“Is that like "I know you are but what am I?"”