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View this email as Webpage<http://westernjournalism-info.com/view.php/494521/6026> <http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/2934455> *Do not miss a single issue, add wcj <[email protected]> @westernjournalism-info.com <[email protected]> to your buddy list, contact list or safe list. Do not reply to this e-mail. If you wish to contact our staff, please use the contact us link at the bottom of this e-mail* *ABC employees donated heavily to Obama By Jennifer Harper, Washington Times* As indignation turned to outrage Thursday among critics of an ABC News prime-time special on President Obama's health care policy, The Washington Times has learned that ABC employees gave 80 times as much money to Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign for president than to his rival's. According to an analysis of campaign donations by the Center for Responsive Politics, conducted at The Times' request, ABC employees in several divisions donated $124,421 to the Obama campaign, compared with $1,550 to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain. The 60-minute ABC program, to air live from the White House on Wednesday, is sparking hardball politics in other ways. Grass-roots boycotts, Republican outcry and a study citing media bias are all part of the mix. A study released Thursday by the Business & Media Institute (BMI) found that since Inauguration Day, ABC has aired news stories with positive reviews of Mr. Obama's health care policy 55 times, compared with 18 times when the network highlighted negative reviews. Read The Full Story:<http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/3516424> ------------------------------ * No surprise to see ABC give platform to Obama — but not to his critics By Ron Smith, Baltimore Sun* What former CBS news correspondent Bernard Goldberg identified in the title of his recent book, A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, has not cooled in the slightest. Not since John Fitzgerald Kennedy wowed the press with his looks and charm and the elegance of his wife, Jackie, has a president been so widely idolized by those members of the Fourth Estate who are supposed to report with some objectivity on presidential policies and promises. This is not a healthy thing. We are not some backward nation worshiping a Dear Leader - are we? Well, are we? There's much buzz this week about the decision of ABC News to air a special edition of its World News program June 24 from the White House. Charlie Gibson will anchor the news from the Blue Room in a program described by the network as a special town hall meeting on health care. Republicans (remember them?) are very upset about this, maybe because their views on health care reform (whatever they might be) are being left out of this telecast. They think having the president's views amplified on television without opposition is pretty chilling. *Read The Full Story:<http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/3516447> * ------------------------------ *In Iran protest, online world is watching, acting CNN.com* In Chicago in 1968, anti-war protesters at the Democratic National Convention chanted "The Whole World Is Watching." They were talking about television cameras that showed police beatings on the evening news. More than 40 years later, with a massive movement aimed at reversing election results and possibly even toppling a regime in Iran, online networking is instantly sharing protesters' actions. And the whole world is watching."That wasn't true in Chicago," Clay Shirky, a writer, consultant and New York University instructor who focuses on the social impact of the Internet, said of the slogan. "Now, it's true." The watching isn't the end of the story -- and may not even end up being its most important piece -- according to Shirky. "Since we don't know how this ends, the lessons are all provisional at the moment," he said. "But it seems to me that the biggest potential difference right now is not just that the whole world is watching, but that people from outside -- civilians from outside -- Iran are trying to actually affect the outcome." Read The Full Story:<http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/3516470> ------------------------------ *Obama takes on Fox News, loses By Jeff Bercovici, Daily Finance* When is Barack Obama going to learn that presidents shouldn't play press critic? It didn't work for Richard Nixon. It didn't work for Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. It didn't help John McCain win the White House, and it won't help Obama, who vented his frustration with Fox News during an interview on CNBC yesterday. "I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration," Obama told John Harwood, who had asked him how he felt about coverage of his administration. "That's a pretty big megaphone. You'd be hard-pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front." Fox News (which Obama pettishly declined to name) is indeed a big megaphone -- big and getting bigger. And that's no accident. As I've written before, Fox is big because it speaks to an audience that doesn't feel its concerns represented elsewhere on TV (and, yes, because Roger Ailes is a pro at producing slick, loud, button-pressing programming in general). For Obama to turn his back on that audience because he doesn't feel like he gets a fair shake from Fox would be a mistake. He all but acknowledged that himself during the campaign, when he finally granted an interview to Bill O'Reilly after being hounded for months. *Read The Full Story:<http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/3516493> * ------------------------------ <http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/2934547> <http://westernjournalism-info.com/go.php/494521/6026/3173540> We support responsible and ethical email marketing practices. Please know that we respect your right to be purged from this marketing campaign. Removal from this email distribution list is automatically enforced by our email delivery system. Please click here<http://westernjournalism-info.com/manage.php/494521/6026>to start the process for email deletion. This correspondence may be a newsletter, press release, solicitation or advertisement. We encourage and support best practices in responsible email marketing. 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