We Report, We Deride

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A commentor at Roger Simon’s gets to the crux of what is so utterly unprofessional about this type of internal communication;

As a Producer, if Green wants to deliver an unbiased product, he has an obligation not to influence his staff to one view or another, regardless of what he thinks in his heart-of-hearts

Green is an executive producer of Good Morning America. Matt Drudge reports he has other emails of this type that “reveal the inner workings of the nation’s news outlets”.
No doubt he does.
Via Instapundit

36 Replies to “We Report, We Deride”

  2. I don’t know whether this tells us more about the bias of the MSM or their stupidity in sending that type of e-mail.
    Does it not therefore, demonstrate their naiveity (sp?) and their potential to be deceived?

  5. Doug here. sarge, Where-TF did you come up with that number? From ABC I presume. No bias?
    Moron.

  6. Apparently Drudge gets his “news” from Good Morning America ?? I thought it was one of those morning talk shows that rot your brain. That explains a lot about Drudge and his “sources”.

  7. steve d:
    I think what any rational mind can get from this, based on the TOPIC, is that much of the MSM, including ABC is insanely biased. Don’t you think?

  8. MSM
    Give them rope. Lots more rope.
    Dan Rather should be asked to return his, now that he no longer needs it.

  9. The point is not that its ABC or Fox, its that a ‘professional’ news gatherer is NOT hewing to an objectively neutral standard. Which is fine if its EDITORIAL!!! If Mr. Green works in straight news for ABC this SHOULD raise eyebrows and Mr. Green should at least hear from his supervisor to either rededicate himself to reporting ‘news’ or maybe change jobs and work for the DNC.

  10. Irwin
    The MSM media was blind,deaf and dumb with regards to the Bush Administration until Abu Garif. So I think the people in the media are no different than anyone else. As the truth has been seeping out over time the MSM was embarassed by their passive acceptance of the Bush talking points. It is only within the last year that some of the media people have come alive and are doing their job which is to question authority. As Americans many in the media feel betrayed, tricked, used by their President. Some are angry and it does seep into their journalism. There has been and continues to be massive coverup of what the administration has done and are still doing. We are only beginning to get a glimmer of what is really going on. At least 60% of Americans don’t like what they see.

  11. steve d’s defense
    Yeah, so, it’s bias, but it’s justified bias.
    BUSH MADE HIM BE BIASED. PLUS WE HAVE POLLS.
    POLLS I TELL YA.
    Good lord this memo is unproffessional. How can he make a claim of showing the consumers objective news coverage when this is how business is conducted behind closed doors? He can’t.

  12. Amazing. A quit watching the big three 20 years ago. Their bias level was so thick it made me want to puke. Of course now anyone who adheres to the ABC worldview says FOX is some extreme conservative propoganda site. Is FOX totally nuetral? Probably not. Is it more balanced than the big three and CNN? Yepper.
    I make you a bet. In a few more decades Bush will be remembered as an effective president. Clinton will be mentioned only for nearly being impeached. Gore will be remembered as the continual butt of “The father of the internet” joke. Carter, I hope, will still be alive so that he can continue to eat his own soul each day and have even more scorn cast upon him.
    “A sarge is someone you put in charge of the latrine detail while the Sergeants are leading their troops”.

  13. steve d,
    It’s good to question authority whether it’s Bush, or Clinton. Nobody wants to be lied to or feel manipulated. However, if you’re the producer of a so-called news program, or section of a program, then I think you should reserve your comments for yourself – they’re private and should not be used to manipulate other supposed professionals.
    Something the Canadian media has to learn in spades, in order to be taken seriously by at least half the country. On the other hand, I don’t really give a shit, I’d like to see the CBC suffer and die.

  15. Irwin
    I think the CBC had the best coverage of Harpers visit to Afganistan. I heard the best explanation of the Shapiro affair on the CBC. My guess is you are watching through a heavily biased filter. Put down the guard and try to be more objective. I think you will see they are more balanced than most.

  16. steve d
    I think the CBC had sub-par coverage of Harpers visit to Afganistan. I heard the worst explanation of the Shapiro affair on the CBC. My guess is you are watching through a heavily biased filter. Put down the guard and try to be more objective. I think you will see they are more un-balanced than most.

  18. Surprise. Surprise. Another smarmy media operative gets caught with his pants down. More evidence that fair and unbiased isn’t an industry code of ethics.
    As sordid and hilarious, the NYT’s has another pathetic and tepid correction over this story. Truth be told, what person doesn’t expect terrorists upon their release to say they were mistreated/tortured/whatever? That’s what they are trained to do. Only the MSM finds credibilty in all of these characters. Add this second NYT’s huge error this week and you’ve got to wonder if clowns are in charge of their newsroom. A background check is pretty basic in vetting a story. But, when you are the leading lefty rag in the US feeling that a story is right is more important than facts.
    http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013454.php#013454
    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002235060
    The MSM and the kool-aid drinkers that parrot their garbage can’t disappear fast enough.

  19. I always figure Carter’s future image would be shaped by Mike Judge:
    COTTON: Why, that’s nobody but a one-termin’ peanut farmer.
    HANK: Man wore a sweater.
    COTTON: Henpecked by the OPEC!
    – “The Father, the Son, and J.C.”, “King of the Hill” episode #108

  20. Ryan
    what I heard on CBC radio about the Shapiro affair had Harper being in the clear and the majority of parliament not liking Shapiros work. Three weeks before Shapiro finally announced it.
    How much more Harper friendly can you get than that???

  21. Left mmonbats, incl., Red-Green, er Joos-fferrr himself, is in on the puke. +
    THIS BLOG IS CENSORED!
    My best newsroom frenemy — we have our ups and downs — Rosie DiManno has been blowing away the Canadian competition with her dispatches from Kandahar. They’re here and here and here … The girl, who has been finally nominated for a National Newspaper Award, is a column machine no matter where she goes.
    She emailed me today. Here it is:
    —–Original Message—–
    From: DiManno, Rosie
    Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:28 PM
    To: Zerbisias, Antonia
    Subject: no-antonia-zone
    AZ:
    Greetings from Kandahar.
    Thought you might be amused to hear that your blog can’t be viewed on DND e-mail system. I tried to call it up but message flashed saying, this material deemed inappropriate for viewing.
    You should wear that with pride.
    rdm
    I do. But I am not happy about it.
    Posted on March 23, 2006
    Wow! First you scared the conservative media so bad they went out and got themselves a hired gun to cyberwhack you and now you have the DND shivering in their boots. The pen truly is mightier than the right whinger.
    Posted by: Robert McClelland | March 23, 2006 at 07:39 PM
    Come on girls don’t get yor tits in a knot.I just got out of the military and the firewall and other computer services that don’t work(courtesy of the Liberals) are a constant pain it will firewall almost anything.Just more incompetence brought to you by a failed and corrupt gov’t.
    Posted by: Shawn Taylor | March 23, 2006 at 08:07 PM +
    http://thestar.blogs.com/azerb/2006/03/my_newsroom_fre.html
    via nealenews
    Boycott Bourque.

  25. Sarge, Given half an inch of string and you will pull it for all your worth. It’s a Liberal auto-reflex.
    60% is possible though. That’s the percentage of people living on sound bites without background. Living with the Liberal part of the overall picture. The Sheehan part. TG

  26. Reuters Stealth Rewrite Alert
    Earlier we pointed out this end-of-the-line absurd piece from al-Reuters, arguing that the controversy over the Afghan convert is just like the Muslim world�s reaction to the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
    ROME (Reuters) – The strong Western response to a threatened death sentence for an Afghan convert to Christianity looks something like a mirror image of the Muslim reaction to the Prophet Mohammad caricatures printed in the European press.
    There have been no riots or sackings of Afghan embassies, unlike the violence that marked the uproar in Muslim countries after the Danish cartoons were published, but the shock and mutual incomprehension expressed in both cases are similar.
    Well, the writer has had a change of heart since this morning. Now the two cases are completely different. Western, Muslim worlds clash again over religion. (Hat tip: Allah.)
    Two months ago, political and religious leaders in the Muslim world were rounding on Western European media and governments for printing and defending caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that they considered blasphemous.
    The cases are clearly different. Western leaders from President George W. Bush down have spoken up to save the life of a man whose religious freedom is a universal human right which his judges say is secondary to Islamic law. +
    Via LGF

  27. Come on people, give the MSM a break. The biggest pumpkin story only comes once a year … same thing with the ground hog … etc. etc.
    The are trying to sell advertising … which doesn’t sell unless people are listening, watching, reading your brand of MSN.
    They have just figured out if you ask the same question 200 times from a RW politician – you will get the same answer 200 times (the LW accomodates by giving 200 different answers … unless it’s Layton … he answers the same question no one asked 400 times).
    It’s time to take up the National Enquirers model … they are almost there … just need the sea monkey advertising account.

  28. Contrary to some previous comments President Bush made good points in yesterdays questions and answer event. Down here in Yuma Az one large amount of folks are disgussted by the main stream
    media. These guys at abc.,nbc and cnn would have us chuck in the towel at Iwo Jima, Normany and Yes the revolutionary war.

  29. Easter Bunny needs your help: Send in a CPT; rescue Easter Bunny. (Websites bypass the MSM) +
    Ouster of the Easter Bunny draws unwanted attention to St. Paul
    Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 3/23/06 | Jackie Crosby – Staff Reporter
    Posted on 03/24/2006 6:21:32 AM PST by MplsSteve
    A day after the Easter Bunny got the boot at St. Paul City Hall, Peter Cottontail’s gigantic ears must be burning.
    The story of the bunny’s eviction from the lobby of the City Council offices was the talk of the town on public airwaves, in skyways and on websites throughout the country on Thursday. Even Fox’s Bill O’Reilly asked about it.
    Those who agreed with the decision to pull the “Happy Easter” messages kept a relatively low profile; several city employees who applauded the move asked to remain unnamed. +
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602306/posts

  30. Whoa. You mean you can send an email from your Blackberry and just about anybody can get a hold of it? Deep.
    Technology. Who knew?

  31. http://www.WorldNetDaily.com
    FAITH UNDER FIRE
    Is Easter latest holiday hijack?
    Bunny gets booted from city council as some fear offending non-Christians
    Excerpts;
    “I sent an e-mail that Easter is viewed as a Christian holiday and advised that it be taken down,” Tyrone Terrill told the Pioneer Press. “It wasn’t a big deal.”
    But City Council Member Dave Thune had no problem with the seasonal display.
    “I absolutely wonder how colored eggs and bunnies and chickens are Christian,” Thune told the paper. “I’m a little puzzled how people can be offended.”
    The word “Easter” is found only once in the King James Version of the Bible, concerning King Herod’s persecution of early Christians including the apostles James and Peter.
    “Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.” (Acts 12:1-4)
    The word Easter in the text is translated from the Greek word “pascha,” which is in every other instance rendered as Passover.

  32. Military Says Zerb’s Blog is Not Censored
    Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias’s blog had been deemed ‘inappropriate for viewing’ by the Department of National Defence. NEW.
    via nealenews.com
    Sample Aunty-American propaganda from Antonia:
    The Smirking Chimp – Antonia Zerbisias: ‘Bush’s liberty song …
    Ask not at whom the Chimp smirks; he smirks at you.
    http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=19759&mode=nested&order=0 – 38k –

  33. steve d
    “My guess is you are watching through a heavily biased filter”
    “what I heard on CBC radio about the Shapiro affair…….”
    well steve I don’t watch a lot of radio, I thought we were talking about CBC television coverage.
    Which I found to be inadeqaute.

  34. Controversial Blogger Quits ‘Wash Post’ Amid Plagiarism Charges [Full text of statement by WaPo]
    Posted by summer
    On 03/24/2006 12:22:18 PM PST � 71 replies � 963+ views
    editorandpublisher.com ^ | March 24, 2006 | E&P Staff
    NEW YORK Ben Domenech’s conservative blog Red America lasted all of three days at the Washington Post. He quit today after numerous examples of alleged plagiarism in his work surfaced. Yesterday, in a seprate matter, he had apologized for calling Coretta Scott King a “Communist” the day after her recent funeral. The embarrassing episode for the Post culminated Friday afternoon when washingtonpost.com executive editor Jim Brady posted the following notice on the Web site: “In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting.. +
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

  36. The only thing funnier here than the whining about a confidential email (quick tip: one’s personal feelings can be set aside when reporting, or else Fox’s conservatives couldn’t by definition be fair and balanced, even if they were)…
    …is the guy referring to WWII who somehow doesn’t know how to spell Nomandy.
    (Ok, maybe the one saying that somehow a guy trying to take advantage of US mistreatment of prisoners somehow absolves them of the mistreatment is funnier. But in a “huh” way, rather than a “ha ha” funny.)
    (Actually, the funniest bit might be the vanilla link to Instapundit as a hat-tip, but whatever.)

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