CBS Spokesman distorts Standard of Editing on Couric-McCain interview. Here's the proof
As I reported earlier, CBS violated their own Standards when it aired the heavily edited interview of John McCain with Katie Couric. A CBS spokesman tried to defend their behavior and told TV Newser:
Of the 14-minute interview, a little less than three minutes was used on the Evening News. A CBS spokesperson tells TVNewser, "As all news organizations do with extended interviews, last night's Obama and McCain interviews were edited to fit the available time and to give viewers a fair expression of the candidates' major differences. The full transcript and video were and still are available at CBSNews.com."
OK, so this person is saying that they edited these segments to ' give viewers a fair expression of the candidates' major differences'.
I'm sorry that is not what CBS did in this case and maybe the spokesman should look at their own standards in editing and then get back to me. Here's what CBS has to actually say about it: CBS manuel---CBS NEWS STANDARDS....SEC111-5....EDITING:
Editing is essential to the practice of journalism. We must make every effort to ensure that our editing reflects fairly, honestly and without distortion what was seen and heard by our reporters and recorded by our cameras and microphones. The editing process requires careful news judgments geared to the individual facts of each situation.
Interviews are to be edited in a straightforward manner, preserving the sense of the interview. Even a short sound bite should accurately reflect the spirit of the entire interview. An answer may not be taken out of context if the result is to distort the original meaning. If a question to an interview subject is used, the answer must be to that specific question. The question and the answer may be edited, but not in a way that would distort the meaning of either. Answers to different questions may not be combined to give the impression of one continuous response. In short, we cannot create an answer merely because we wish the subject had said it better.
In the editing of an interview, cutaway shots may be used (see Section II-3 for shooting cutaways in the field). But the cutaways must not distort what actually occurred. The correspondent may register appropriate visual expressions, such as smiling at a joke. In all cases, however, the correspondent must be careful that casual expressions do not convey approval or disapproval of what is being said.
The narration leading to a sound bite must reflect the question that elicited the response. For example, we cannot say, in leading into an expert on explosives, "We asked Dr. Doe how the bomb that killed eight people was constructed," when the original question was, "How do you make a homemade bomb?
Let's repeat what CBS says is their Standard.
Answers to different questions may not be combined to give the impression of one continuous response. In short, we cannot create an answer merely because we wish the subject had said it better.
This is exactly what CBS did in the segment and I'm not even including the important McCain gaffe that they left out. How can CBS defend the Couric/McCain interview after we read their own guidelines? It's outrageous behavior. I'm contacting TV Newser for comment now. Contact CBS again and ask for a correction.
UPDATE: I got a call from CBS. They are getting hit with a ton of calls about this story. I'm waiting for a direct response from the Nightly News now.
TV Show CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
(212) 975-3247
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/main3420.shtml (212) 975-3691, (212) 975-1893
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Did they edit their standards?
Something stinks on the CBS Comment site too.
Any positive comment about Obama or a negative comment about McCain from me never makes it.
Say it ain't so joe!
You mean to tell me the same 'news station' owned by Viacom (evil empire #4 behind NewsCorp, AOL Time Warner, & Disney) that fired Dan Rather for doing his job (but being setup by a Karl Rove late night special) is involved in covering up facts & not following the tennants of journalistic integrity????
Shocking....but then again, the US corporate media is run by 5 multinational corporations whose meal ticket is deregulation and insane trade policies courtesy of Republicans...and corporatist/con-servative Democratic reps...
I appreciate your efforts to turn up the heat on these guys, John, but ultimately we just need the corporate MSM to go the way of the dodo/t-rex/extinct-animal-of-your-choice.
i thought the media had a obama bias.....oh that's right that's what mccain and his surrogates claim......wow you have to keep your contrarian hat on full time during this campaign
WTF!!!! CBS?!!?!
So much for Obama "bias" with the media...I'm disappointed in CBS.
This has traction. Keep pushing it.
(Also, suggest that, at MINIMUM the major news networks should post complete and un-edited interviews on their websites, where they don't have the excuse of 'editing for brevity.')
See B.S. has a mere camel toe grip on reality.
Maybe what’s needed in times like these are extended episodes of acute anti-retrograde amnesia without obvious loss of consciousness, brought on by the ingestion of alcohol or some other solvent based antagonist with approximately 100 cc’s of tincture of extract of young adult Pineal gland, or joining a local band of “leaf people”..
Yeah, I know, I'm drifting. But I have a special bone to pick with the tube in general and their utilizers in the broad-spectrum of putzville. I have been battered by the abject stupidity of persons who derive the sum total of their inanity from T.V. "news", causing me to a great extent, digestive distress, rending of favored garments, and three major pschedelic episodes, not to point out the corporeal and psychological torment of having to share the same planet with these aforementioned dopey bungholes. I would take a large amount of amusement in personally placing, with much vigor, the particular co-axle cable, or in the case of you pinheads that chose Directv for all the extra "choices", in question into their soon to be enlarged lower alimentary cavities. At that point, whether the information in question is phony, fine, but hopefully they’re totally engaged in drooling satori so I could take ghoulish glee in watching the culpable parties attempt informed debate with other likewise moon calfs, in lieu of a colonoscopy. But I’m fearful that all I can do is, much like the Dalai Lama, chortle at the absurdity of life and the intrinsic weakness of the human condition, including (unfortunately) myself. How did we manage to function all those preceding years without the use of such troublesome contrivances?
Peace and piece
Meanwhile, McCain’s Op-Ed on Iraq is Now Rejected by ‘The Pennysaver’
Irony of ironies!!!
Bet Faux News would love to publicize this egregious transgression on the part of CBS -- but they can't, and won't -- because they'll then have to highlight how truly clueless McCain is in regard to the Iraq war! Or will they...
I'd like to hear from the people who were SCREAMING at CBS during the Dan Rather "Memo-gate" scandal. I'm waiting.
why did this happen......keep shareholders happy at all costs
Cacamaymee
Bull
Shit
The members of the press, themselves, probably DO have an pro-Obama bias, individually. I'm pretty sure they'd all feel really GUUUD about themselves if Obama gets elected, cuz they'll see it as more evidence that the system, in which they are totally, overwhelmingly, and uncritically enrolled as advocates, "WORKS." They'll be explosively FULL of self-congratulations...
But they're not "individuals" when they're working as 'reporters' or 'pundits.' They're loyal CorpoRat whores who do what they are told without having to be told.
Sumner Redstone (sic) needs bombin'John to be #44 so he ("Redstone") can continue to consolidate his media holdings and secure his other investments in a GOPuke administration, with non-existqant regulation and no supervision. Under the Dims, Redstone (and Disney, and Murdoch, and GE) will see an intolerable slowing in their rapacious predations upon USer media channels. They know consolidation will expand under Pukes, while remaining steady (though NEVER diminishing) under the Dims.
So, as sycophants, and loyal satraps to power, the 'journos' will tell the story that flawlessly and accurately repeats the dominant bidness/elite narrative, and keeps their paychecks brimming.
"the Best" schools are expensive, you know
Dirty f#ckin' netroot hippies! Always trying to get us to do our damned jobs!
It's no wonder Novak has to race around DC in a black Corvette! Just to stay away from the goddamn netroot dirtbags chasin' his shriveled ass.
Outraged @ 11:
I said the exact same thing on Huffingtonpost.
This is too much!!!!! Talk about carrying McKeating5's water....
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You know who the pioneer of CBS editing was? Wolfman Jack! In his old border blaster shows, he would sometimes air interviews with various D-listers. You'd hear
Wolf: So, Mr Jerry Lee, when's your next album comin' out, babeeee!
Lewis: I was born in Turkey Hollow, Mississippi.
These were canned tapes sent around to the stations so the local DJ could pretend they had Jerry Lee in the studio. Only Wolfman kept messing up the question to answer sequence, just like Katie.
Oh good grief CBS.... Lowering yourself to the level or below of the Fox network is not the best way to influence people or make friends... let alone increase viewership.... Bunch of DOLTS!!!! When your news reporting has lost its' credibility, ya got NOTHING! Nada, zilch to offer the discerning viewer....You're toast.... dry. cold. toast.........
I subscribe to what Drilling solves nothing@4's perspective is, regarding the backstory of it all. To what led news reporting to this sad state of affairs..... Overall, one word covers all this..... PA-THE-TIC!!!! I hope this 'tiffany' network reaps everything it deserves from this. You C.B.S.!! YOU opened this can-o-crap yourselves thru braindead editorial and editing decisions, Now?Enjoy every last morsel of this stinking shitpile!!!! You earned it! Look in the mirror for someone to lay blame on idiots!!!!.......JD
Carl Gordon @ 9:
Fookin' brilliant. My favorite post today.
LOL
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 18:
Why do you hate bubba so much?
Katie couric should be introducing cooking segments on a sunday morning cable access show.
And I'm only surprised that CBS didn't think to edit their standards before they edited the interview to make their boss's buddy look moderately, almost kind of awake.
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Pericles @ 8:
The full interview is on their website (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/22/eveningnews/main4283813.shtml). I agree with you that this is a bunch of bs, but check the website before complaining.
The US media are a sad joke. The idea that the American public has free and open access to the truth is ludicrous.
You know only what a few want you to know. Anything that does not fit their tidy little agenda is quickly removed. End of story.
i may have been ot....but i hope the admin notes my comments and gets that story up
[We've seen the story. It was in our inboxes early this morning. Part of the reason your comment came down was you wished violence on the guy. We don't allow that here-Sitemonitor]
as for mccain and the msm...they have been covering for this guy since the getgo
and this went beyond the pale
the man should be in a home, not running for prez
we are watching the early stages of alzheimers
we already went through that with reagan and we are finishing off 8 years with a madman at the helm
enuf is enuf
Oh, that's the OLD standard. The new standards read,
So what, if anything, did they edit out of Sen. Obama's interview? Did they chop his up too?
Stay informed. Keep politicians honest (Bernie Sanders - thank you for listening to us impoverished citizens). And keep exposing these incredible sleight of hands on the part of our mainstream media (sic).
I highly recommend an article from Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. It illustrates the ridiculousness of our media - they are out of touch. I am no longer support any of them.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/92431/america%27s_middle_class_can%27t...
Thank you Crooks and Liars. Cheers.
k
Albatross- Maybe you should forward the new standards on to CBS management, not that they missed the memo...
Olbermann has to keep hammering away on this. Nobody else in the corporate media is interested.
PorridgeGun @ 32:
The only reason I can think of that the others aren't saying anything about this is perhaps because they all do it and it just happened to be CBS that got caught.
Katie Couric should be doing a telcast from a,cat beauty contest.
Why does anybody watch the damned teevee anyway? What a waste of time and living. Television viewing is the worst form of self abasement. Suck on that big glass teat.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 27:
Goddamn straight, Uncle Joe! Enuf already!
Why is it that we want McCain's warped talking points given more exposure? Too many people just accept whatever he says as gospel and use it as more ammunition against Obama. Let's not give him any more chances to catapult this propaganda. I'm not sure that editing out his more ridiculous statements is such a bad idea. (Oops, speaking of editing, let's just drop the "more" from thatlast line.)
I knew CBS Manuel. I worked with CBS Manuel.
You, sir, are no CBS Manuel.
CBS at work: Incompetents pusing stool softener to the incontinent.
Whoa, John, nice digging!
Speaking of edited footage (to get it on thread) CNN is showing footage of Robert Novak being released from a police car. If Rove was also involved it was edited out.
goat hussein sage @ 31:
Done. Good suggestion.
I'm still waiting for a response to my email to CBS evening news. I asked them to tell me when their correction of McC's reponse would be aired given that I don't watch network news. I admitted that they won't lose me as a viewer over this b/c they lost me long ago.
I think it is important to cram their phones and in boxes. Lets them know that we know.
Yesterday I did not hold little Katie responsible. Today, as it was HER interview, I want her to get her arse on the air and talk about it. I'd watch that.
God I hate our constitutionally protected 'media'. Thenks John, keep it up.
Like the other neocon propaganda outlets, I wouldn't trust CBS if they told me the sky is usually blue.
Can't help but chuckle when I think about how much these propganda companies must hate the intertubes and all of us malcontented pinkos who are continually
pissingraining on their parade. Doubleplus bad, what?pissed off patricia @ 33:
Somebody said earlier that CNN/Anderson Cooper was going to do a bit on it tonight.
Screen capture of CBS edited proof Phil Gramm still giving McCain advice:
http://www.blazesoftball.com/images/statler_waldorf_02_01.jpg
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 22:
Hate Bubba? Hahaha! Obviously we can't see the original post anymore, but do you mean he actually pulled CLINTON out of his ass? Hahah! Damn, I think the site monitor should have left that one up there just for the laughs.
[I took it to mean a generic bubba, a cellmate. Not THE Bubba. And it had to do with Novak-Sitemonitor]
the other thing in the TV Newser article that Amato linked to and is in the link I provided is Joe Scarborough's response. I wish MSNBC would can his ass.
Paul @ 44:
At this point I'm wondering if Dan Rather needs a room mate, since he's probably having trouble paying the rent by now.
Someone was touching-up Gramps' pictures. (lol)
wheyghey @ 38:
Senator, that was uncalled for. In fact, I DO know how to spell 'potatoe' and I have a signing statement from the President to prove it. Furthermore, I got MASSIVE campaign contributions from both Murphy Brown and Bart Simpson! The Democrats only got contributions from The Magic School Bus, so EAT THAT!
Well I can say that if the above standards are supposed to be used for CBS, then I guess it is safe to say that all the networks have similar standards, they are required to adhere to, and are simply ignoring them.
Time after time, there are numerous complaints about how these people are using our airwaves to suite their specific agendas and needs, which is most times not in the best interest of the American people who are the sole owners of the airwaves in which these net works operate their business.
Our national news networks have been invaded by the five men that own, operate and control everything American people determine news worthy, and it is distorted, distracted and demonized on daily bases, with little or no investigative reporting also with NO intervention from FCC, including what was always known as our public stations, better known as C-Span, whom have also somehow been invaded by these people who want to make sure there is no other messages, spoken on our airwaves, they do not support.
They are providing us with News Broadcasting people who are No where near the cities, communities or even the state that we live in, to provide information to us on the cheap. As much as I enjoy XM Radio, which I have to pay for on monthly bases, I am discouraged by the News portion of it, because like regular radio and TV, we get the same tattered news people, distorting the truth and the facts. I presume they are owned, operated and controlled by the same five men.
They have taken the rights of the public, to speak out on important issues, that we personally deem are of value to us, and dominated our rights to have FCC officials,who are supposed to be the voice of the American people to set these standards, by dominating the management staff of this Federal Agency with far right wing republicans, that are simply purchased by the owners of these networks to do what ever they want done.
The American public, for the last eight years have barraged these FCC officials with numerous complaints about these networks, but the complaints go unanswered and are simply ignored.
Our political process continues to be distracted, distorted and demonized by these people with their own personal agendas, which is costing the public and the people running for elected offices, tremendous sums of money to get our candidates, media exposure, because these same network owners are charging them a fortune to run their campaigns, rather then the ability to use our public stations, that are supposed to be paid for by the public for that purpose.
Most all of the integral issues in the contract and guidelines that CBS is supposed use, when it is necessary to edit, are violated on daily bases, as is the case with all other networks, providing they have similar standards, in which, if they do should be immediately made available for public consumption, and scrutiny.
Nicky @ 46:
LOL!
If letters, e-mails and phone calls are not your cup of tea, try posting a comment on the CBS thread below the article titled something objective like "McCain promises victory."
They actually let critical posts stand. CBS is even less vigilant than the local site Monitor (no offense meant). Very unlike ABC where they fear even a post saying "ABC aired" phonetically implies you are calling them mistaken. They do have a "Weasels Welcome" mat over at the Disneylandofnews Channel, however. I hunts regularly under my top secret Ricky Ricardo nomenclature at all your finer network threads.
Katie Couric should be doing a telcast from a,cat beauty contest.
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nope she should be doing a telecast from inside a whore house .... cause she is nothing, nothing, but a corporate whore who has sold her soul, a classsic faustian deal, to be among the 'media/corporate' elite ........ she should video tape all the gangbangs she has had at the white house to demonstrate to her viewers her actual reality ... she has no more soul .. in it's place is simply a abscess of rancid, evil, puss ...........but then again this applies to the entire CORPORATE/ REPIGLICAN/MEDIA = MAFIA ... they should all be tried and convicted for purposeful , criminal, fraud committed against the American people ...
Breaking News----CBS fine for Janet Jackson breast exposure overturned. FCC vows revenge for networks ironic "McCain ass covering" footage.
It's simple.
1. The people that own CBS have a vested interest in having McCain become president because of his stated position to expand the Bush Tax Cuts. This translates into a LOT of money for the people that own CBS.
2. The people that control the News organization take orders from their bosses and don't have the editorial freedom to present the truth.
3. The on-screen commentators frankly just read off a teleprompter and likely don't even know what they are saying most of the time. These on-screen people are hired for their looks and not their news ability or their ethics.
4. The news can be distorted/managed because the old FCC fairness rules have been thrown out the window so just such a thing can be done.
Remember, the people that "manage" the news at CBS have no problem changing what you see if it is in their own self-interest. Right now, getting McCain into office is one of their priorities since his administration would be very good for their businesses. Frankly, who is there to stop them?
anonymous @ 25:
Thanks, I'm sure that's how they spotted the edit, but is it a matter of policy that all networks supply all interviews complete and un-edited on their websites? If it's in the charter of each of the network news bureaus, great. If not, it should be. (By complete, I mean from the point of clipping on the lavalier to taking it off again.)
this is proof that the sunni awakening started in january/febuary of '06.... from the christian science monitor, feb 06 edition. proof that mccain is ignorant, even to the point of lying about the facts.
christian science monitor
from the February 06, 2006 edition
Sunni tribes turn against jihadis
To fight foreign terrorists, US and Iraqi forces are looking to the Sunni Arab resistance.
By Charles Levinson | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD – Sheikh Osama al-Jadaan, head of the influential Karabila tribe in Sunni Arab-dominated western Iraq, is more politician than traditional sheikh these days. He's given up his dishdasha and Arab headdress for a pinstripe suit with a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket.
He's also turned away from supporting Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and other foreign fighters in Iraq. "We realized that these foreign terrorists were hiding behind the veil of the noble Iraqi resistance," says Mr. Jadaan. "They claim to be striking at the US occupation, but the reality is they are killing innocent Iraqis in the markets, in mosques, in churches, and in our schools."
In Anbar Province, an insurgent hotbed that borders Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, US and Iraqi officials say they have a new ally against the Al Qaeda-inspired terrorists: local tribal leaders like Jadaan and home-grown Iraqi insurgents.
"The local insurgents have become part of the solution and not part of the problem," US Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch told reporters at a press conference last week.
Until recently, many of the Sunni Arab tribes in Anbar and local insurgent leaders collaborated with Islamic extremist groups whose funding and manpower is thought to come largely from abroad. They had a common goal: drive out the Americans.
But Mr. Zarqawi's indiscriminate killing of innocent Iraqis has alienated many of his erstwhile Iraqi allies. His shadowy militant group, known as Al Qaeda in Iraq, is believed to have assassinated four prominent Anbar sheikhs. And in January when hundreds of Anbar men turned up at an Iraqi Army recruiting depot in Ramadi, the provincial capital, a suicide bomber killed 70 would-be soldiers.
Zarqawi's brutal methods have stirred controversy beyond Iraq, as well. When he declared an "all out war" on Shiites last September, his former mentor, Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi, publicly rebuked him and Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, warned him against alienating the Muslim masses.
Nicky @ 56:
I'm glad they covered McCain's ass. My only regret is that they didn't do the same for Ed Flanders on the final season of St. Elsewhere in 1988.
When will CBS stop doing fake interviews with McCain?
jimbo92107 @ 61:
It's NBC and Andrea Mitchell whose knickers are in a twist over "fake" interviews.
Because of the robust economy posted under her hubby, Andrea does not have to fake anything.
CBS manuel is a derogatory term for a Mexican who works at CBS I think. A CBS manual is something that hasn't been opened in decades.
hey, i think they did us all a favor, because, by deleting the actual response to the question, couric and CBS highlighted a belief of john mccain's that i think all americans ought to hear:
Couric: Sen. Obama describes Afghanistan as the central front on the war on terror. … Why do you believe Iraq is the central front in the war on terror?
McCain: Well, one reason is because that’s what Osama Bin Laden said that it was. He said, “Go to the country of the two rivers.”
according to john mccain, bin laden is the one who is directing american troop movements, NOT the bush administration!
This has got to be THE most poignant argument about this situation that I've seen anywhere. This should be quoted everywhere this story pops up.
C&L needs to do some editing too. The first few posts are littered with spelling, grammar and puncuation errors.....
.... Look out! Run away 't'...
[As is your post, Dateline Pot, unless you are telling the 't' to run away. Ellipses have only three dots...Sitemonitor]
Thanks I sent mine to CBS:
Excuse me, but McCain's response to Couric was manufactured by CBS, wasn't! Manipulation of the truth in violation of your own standards reveals what many would consider bias. Why does CBS feel the need to portray McCain as more presidential that he actually is? The surge in Iraq and its history is McCain's strongest argument for being a candidate. It is stunning that you would alter his comments which reveal his misunderstanding of the facts "on the ground." Perhaps you sense that Malaki's endorsement of Obama's plan has undercut McCain too much and therefore felt the need to try to shore him up? Please feel free to respond because I'd really like to know you feel the need to portray McCain as more presidential that he actually is.
Please link to the CBS Standards original text, if available online. I'm a reporter on deadline, but need a primary source. Please help fast!
My email to evening@cbsnews.com:
Please add me to your tally of lost viewers as a result of the unethical editing of Katie Couric's interview of candidate McCain.
I've been a very avid viewer of CBS Sunday morning. Count me out on that one too. And 60 minutes.
Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite can only carry your credibility so far, and they can't carry it far enough to overcome this. You have done the country a great disservice. My biggest fear as that this is a common practice, and that your leadership will only regret getting caught, rather than regretting this action's huge disgrace to journalism.
The only thing that will sway me is a prompt and honest admission of the circumstances of this editing, and for those responsible to be fired. The producer, and Couric (whom I generally have not disliked as an anchor). I would think that this action directly violates your published news standards - CBS NEWS STANDARDS….SEC111-5….EDITING:
"Answers to different questions may not be combined to give the impression of one continuous response. In short, we cannot create an answer merely because we wish the subject had said it better."
Now I'm off to see if I can find a list of your evening news sponsors so that I can send them a similar email.
Adios.
I recently had a Gallop poll on the information I get from the world. Ask me what channel I watch and the news show I watch, and the newspaper I read. They were pretty befuddle that I was aware but don't watch cable news, nor read the newspaper. I find that I am inform so much more from foreign internet news from abroad. I think Lara Logan said it best, "If I were to watch Americans news I would shoot myself" After being in the news and watching it reported so differently on the news, it was out right lies, at least in Portland, Oregon. I don't read the Oregonian either, and the last article someone pulled for me from the Oregonian said that "Obama fanatic were similar to Charles mansion's followers". Radio and Internet is all there is left for the 4th branch of govt.
Does CBS understand why their ratings/credibility are down? Do you think they care enough to make a change? I seriously doubt it. Sorry, Katie's "charisma" is not good enough, never was.
I love you and your blog, John, but you're pissing in the wind here.
jitter @ 72:
Sprinkling on the donuts.
Jason M. @ 12:
Well, it isn't only that.
OK, so this person is saying that they edited these segments to ‘ give viewers a fair expression of the candidates’ major differences’.
This may be what the spokesperson said, but in Howie's article in today's WaPo, the president of CBS News gave a completely different reason for what happened: "extreme time pressure" during editing.
Basically, then, their stories don't jive. Who's lying, the person who speaks for the president, or the president?
You've gotta *know* the newspapers are loving this, so they have every reason to keep the story alive. Heads would have rolled. If any of them had done this, it would be right there in black and white...no camera editing available.
Hmmm. Earlier in the same week they caught a break on their FCC fines. Interesting.
Les Moonves. 2008 Federal Campaign Donations Chart.
Over at NewsMeat.
http://www.newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Les_Moonves.php
The head of CBS, for those who didn't know. His wife Julie Chen hosts Big Brother. Is there a better way to get a show?
kravitz @ 76:
If one could get a show without having to fuck some over 20 years one's senior, uh yeah. Talent is a good way to start. Apparently Julie Chen lacks the latter, needs to go with the former. But then look at the stupid ass show he gave her. I'd close up shop if that's all I got.
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John Amato,
Thanks for being on top of this "gaff". We MUST keep the Corporate News Media honest and call them out for the crooks they are.
p.s.
A "gaff" is unintentional...
Can we start calling this for what it is... SHILLING?
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The story here is not McCain, nor is it a mistake. The story here is CBS is in the business of propaganda. Their omission of a critical portion of the interview coupled with editing of answers and their subsequent "mistake" apology rings clear and distinct.
Not surprisingly Americans, over time have come to see FOX news is and is not.
CBS has just exposed themselves to Foxonian tactics, and we all noticed.
Great job digging this up.
It's always been Fox, then ABC's clown showed what they could do and now CBS. Dan Rather had to go over something not nearly this flagarant. Who goes under the bus for this, and gaffe is really not the right word, this deception?
Feeling particularly cranky, my letter to CBS:
Don't worry; FOX News Watch is on the case. I'm quite sure that they'll be all over "yet another" CBS breach of journalistic integrity. I mean, when 60 Minutes didn't do follow up research on the GWB AWOL story in 2004, FOX anchors and pundits were physically unable to stop talking about it. You can still occasionally see a spasm regarding that incident on-air. That being said, thye'd HAVE to go on and on ad nauseum about this much more egregious and completely intentional gaffe, right? I mean if everything they said about how they only reported on the Dan Rather "incident" was because of their intense love of fairness in reporting, there's no WAY they could not make this the lead story on O'Reilly, Hannity & Colmes, On The Record, etc., right?..........
I'm pretty sure I already mentioned the death knell of the Fourth Estate. As if Couric was even remotely a real journalist. Please.
Couric should receive the same treatment that was dealt out to Rather when he supposedly erred with his political news on Bush. Out the door you go girl!
to bad Couric did a cover up for mccain, may be she could work for fox news were that's all they do is cover up or make up stories. mccain did'nt even come close to what was said and got a way with it. we need new blood and not form the civil war. fran
Federali Uptown @ 81:
Hmmm...seems my email @ 81: to evening@cbsnews.com bounced. Guess they can't handle the truth (or differentiate it from propaganda).
I cover this kind of thing all the time: Here is a specific CBS example: Apologize to the World Mr. Wallace and Return that Emmy
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