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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:06:03 -0700 From: Media Research Center IS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis [mrcgoldlogo.gif] Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis September 16, 2003 �Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis ________________________________________________________________________________ Today�s CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030916.asp 1. Jennings Cites Hussein�s �Alleged� Weapons of Mass Destruction Peter Jennings on Saddam Hussein�s �alleged� weapons of mass destruction. On Monday�s World News Tonight, after recalling how �thousands of Iraqi Kurds� were �reportedly killed in 1988 by Saddam Hussein�s use of chemical weapons,� Jennings announced how �David Kay is finalizing his report on the search for Saddam Hussein�s alleged weapons of mass destruction.� But in the subsequent story, Martha Raddatz made clear that while Kay had determined that during the 1990s Hussein destroyed all his WMD, �officials say the Kay report will detail Iraq�s efforts to maintain the capability to produce weapons, an effort that one congressional source called 'robust, active and ongoing.�� 2. Amanpour: Scribes Too Pro-Bush/FNC, Burns: No, Too Pro-Saddam Two journalists, two different views on how the media failed to do their jobs in the months prior to the invasion of Iraq. On CNBC last week, CNN�s Christiane Amanpour railed about the Bush administration�s arguments for invading Iraq, branding it �disinformation at the highest levels� and she scolded journalists �intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News.� But a new book quotes John Burns, the New York Times reporter stationed in Baghdad during the war, expressing outrage toward Western reporters who helped conceal the awfulness of Saddam�s despotic tyranny in order to protect their access to the Iraqi capital, calling it �corruption� and �a gross abdication of responsibility.� 3. ABC on Tax: �Who Could Say No to an Extra Dime to Help Kids?� NBC News recognized a tax hike advocate as a liberal, but not ABC News. In a Monday night story on a referendum in Seattle to impose a tax of ten cents per cup of espresso, ABC�s Neal Karlinsky failed to apply an ideological label the proponent of the �attempt to save child care programs for 7,000 needy kids left underfunded by the state's $2.5 billion budget shortfall.� Karlinsky also relayed the befuddlement of tax supporters: �They wondered who could say no to an extra dime to help kids?� NBC�s Roger O�Neill, however, managed to recognize the ideology behind the idea: �John Burbank, with a liberal Seattle think tank, came up with the 'tax my latte' plan.� 4. CBS�s Smith Assumes Kerry Just Entered the Presidential Race Houston to Harry Smith. For Monday's Early Show, Smith traveled to Iowa over the weekend where he expressed what seemed to be the genuine belief that John Kerry entered the presidential race a mere couple of weeks ago. Smith described Kerry's campaign as �barely two weeks old� and asked: �Did Kerry wait too long to get in the hunt?" Smith marveled at how "Howard Dean has gotten out to an amazing lead in terms of momentum and press,� and pressed Kerry: �Did you wait too long to announce your candidacy?" Of course, though Kerry made his candidacy official on September 2, he�s been campaigning for months. 5. Gumbel's Show Avoids Liberal Bias, Brokaw Justifies No Flag Pin In the second quarterly edition of PBS's Flashpoints USA with Bryant Gumbel and Gwen Ifill, which is set to air an episode tonight titled, �The Media Today: Truth or Lies?�, PBS displays great concern for the media's corporate concentration while ignoring liberal political bias. During an interview with Gumbel, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw admitted that back in the 1960s conservatives �had a hard time getting on the air,� yet he maintained that's �just as a liberal does now.� A poll for PBS found that Brokaw is out of touch on refusing to wear a flag pin, but Brokaw remained unapologetic. And by more than two-to-one, respondents �like� seeing �TV news reports that use words 'our side' or 'us' when referring to U.S. troops.� See today�s entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030916.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement www.TimesWatch.org TimesWatch.org Frank Rich: Triumph of a Willful Bush-Hater Associate editor Frank Rich returns in full rant, calling the recent TV movie on 9-11 �propaganda so untroubled by reality that it's best viewed as a fitting memorial to Leni Riefenstahl.� Read the entire article as posted on TimesWatch.org: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0916.asp Advertisement JOIN THE MRC TODAY The MRC has a unique opportunity that would greatly benefit our work to expose the left-wing agenda of the national media. But it can only be realized with your support. [FORM] Or, visit Media Research Center at: www.mediaresearch.org [FORM] Bozell's News Column What About Bill and 9-11? On the second anniversary of September 11, there wasn�t half as much solemnity and national unity on network TV coverage as last year. Bush administration officials were hammered by the TV interviewers for somehow straying from the war on al-Qaeda into Iraq. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was being served cups of homage along with the coffee. CBS�s Hannah Storm cooed: "You've fought so much for the heroes of 9/11...Has enough been done for the heroes, the people who fought so bravely on that day?" In other words, we�re back to normal. The imbalance was not only stunning for Team Bush, it was unfair to the viewing public. Several authors are now reviewing the Clinton legacy on terrorism, and it�s a... Read the latest column written by L. 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