Jon Stewart* – watch your back – CBC “reporter” Neil MacDonald is after your job;
MacDonald deceptively edited another Bush statement – mid-sentence:
“I would like to tell the state level that we are fully prepared�. End of CBC edit.
From the USA Today transcript we learn that the full quote goes:
“I would like to tell the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm to help you deal with the loss of property.”
Read the rest. Write the Ombudsman.
We’re paying for this crap.
More evidence of CBC bias. At the time of the last American presidential election the CBC ran evry anti Bush documenatry they could find. They were a publicity wing of the Democratic Party. Lets privatize them!
March 03, 2006
The AP clarifies what the AP muddied
Lord help those who rely for their news on the mainstream media and their inferior imitators around the country. A mere two days after its outrageously misleading reporting on the warnings given to President Bush before Hurricane Katrina hit, the AP has issued this:
Clarification: Katrina-Video story
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S. officials.
The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking.
The day before the storm hit, Bush was told there were grave concerns that the levees could be overrun. It wasn’t until the next morning, as the storm was hitting, that Michael Brown, then head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Bush had inquired about reports of breaches. Bush did not participate in that briefing.
John’s more or less authoritative deconstruction of the AP story (linked above) was posted here within hours of its distribution. Assuming its goal is accuracy rather than political effect: What an utterly pathetic performance by the AP, both in its original reporting and its Friday night clarification. And megadittoes for the media shills that parroted the AP’s pathetic performance. We await the Democrats’ correction of the related misrepresentation circulated yesterday. Or does the AP speak for the Democrats?
JOHN adds: I think it’s reasonable to assume that the AP’s “clarification” is, at least in part, the result of our dissection of their incredibly lame story. I think this highlights, though, how hard it is for truth to catch up to error. Hundreds of newspapers printed the AP’s misinformation, and it was the basis for television news on all of the broadcast networks. The correction (or “clarification”) will never catch up to most of the tens of millions of people who heard the original story. The news business is all about impressions, and corrections, days after the fact, never take away the impression that the original story falsely created. +
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Send CBC packing! What a joke, this is “our” national news. If this is the best that they have to offer, they should stay home in bed. Good thing that we have Kate’s site!
AP…CBC, who cares. Journalism has been so distorted and prostituted as a profeession by big media.
“Listen to FEMA Brown…he knows the truth…
Before Katrina Struck, Michael Brown Warned Bush �The Levees Could Actually Breach�
BROWN: There’s no question in my mind he probably had those reports, because we were feeding in the Homeland Security Operations Center, into the White House sit room, all of the information that we were getting. So he had to have had that information. Plus, I think the president knew from our earlier conversations that that was one of my concerns, that the levees could actually breach.
MESERVE: So are you saying when you said recently that it was baloney that the White House didn’t know about the breaches on Monday night — are you saying that the president knew about the breaches on Monday morning?
BROWN: He knew that was a potential, because my testimony has been…
MESERVE: And he knew there were reports of them?
BROWN: Well, yes. He knew about the reports of potential breaches.”
It don’t matter how much powerpuff slags the messenger.
so Kneel McDonald the ultimate Liberal Toady is back.
time to sell CBCPravda to Fox and watch Kneel and Peter Pansbridge get swept over the levee of privatization.
Give the CBC to Al Jazeera, or better yet Al Qaeda – at least they would be less sanctimonius in their anti-Americanism.
It’s 2006, there are lots of tv channels, why the hell are we still paying for this anachronism!!!???
If I wanted to pay for crap, I’d do it for the purpose of fertilizing the garden!
The CBC wouldn’t even be worthy for growing weeds!
Just flush the Crybabies’ Bovine manure Club down, away and out of sight and mind, please!
And, btw, the CBC is only, with its deceptive, chopped-off “reporting”, making the case to Canadians and to the Harper administration for its abolition or privatization.
Somewhat tangentially, but bear with me, for I believe it all ties together within the whole picture:
The argument of liberals that it’s necessary to preserve, via broadcasting, Canadian culture and heritage, is no better than the CBC’s own nonsense. The CBC, like liberals, only wishes to cover up the truth about history and about our real heritage, thus replacing it with warm and fuzzy socialist-radical sexualism-self-harming-body-modifying-STD-ignoring-appeasenik-pacifist temnyky.
The CBC and liberalism has done nothing much besides tell Canadians it’s okay to have no real values or goals. This only serves to perpetuate the spiritual emptiness and despair so evident in radical leftists in particular which leads them to engage in extreme acts and accept incredibly dangerous dogmatic philosophies from their political and social leaders, all in a futile attempt to fill the growing void and chase away the despair…
I myself used to be rabidly anti-religion and anti-tradition, but I quickly smartened up as I steadily saw the world as it really is and the left in general for its dangerous direction for humanity. Today I’m a believer in the goodness of having a real religion based upon freedom and real peace with others who prove they, too want the same. I believe in the traditions of the civilized world which have proven over centuries, even millenia, to work. I believe that all who genuinely possess an open, fully-functioning mind will either stay conservative or leave the left to join the right side.
The left is dying. It’s killing itself with its own zombieistic self-destructiveness. The CBC, as the Liberals and NDP, is far too closely tied to this movement to be permitted to suckle any longer on the limited-provision public teat.
To paraphrase Zarathustra:
The CBC is no bridge for me to the truth.
macdonald is the worm in the rotten apple that is the cbc .
Never mind privatizing…deport the whole bunch to North Korea where they belong.
D
Don’t send them to North Korea, make them sit in a room with a TV that cannot be shut off, and have it play only Fox News. Do this for two years straight. Would be a great reality TV show!
Here’s what I wrote:
I would like to write to you to bring to your attention the editing of a comment in a CBC report that deliberately changed its intended meaning. The news article in question was presented and presumably produced by Mr. Neil MacDonald of the CBC for the flagship news program, ‘The National’.
The comment that I am referring to, as presented by Mr. MacDonald, follows:
(CBC edit of President George Bush’s comments)
“I would like to tell the state level that we are fully prepared�. End of CBC edit.
From a USA Today transcript, we see that the actual quote from Mr. Bush says something completely different:
“I would like to tell the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm to help you deal with the loss of property.”
As can be quite clearly seen, the editing of the second quote to produce the first completely changes the meaning of Mr. Bush’s statement. As a taxpayer, whose hard earned salary funds (and thus has an ownership, as do all canadians, in) the CBC, I would like to express my extreme dismay at the prospect that some CBC reporters would knowingly edit and present a quote in a fashion that misrepresents the truth. Either as a result of journalistic eagerness to present a tantalizing story from a ‘newsworthy angle’ (in this case, being that Mr. Bush failed in Katrina Relief efforts), or perhaps stemming from a deeper seated bias on the part of the reporter, the reality of the quote was not revealed to the Canadian people who watched this program. The end result is that because the CBC failed to tell the whole story, it has created a false impression in the minds of it’s viewers and has cast aside its mandate for journalistic integrity.
This might seem like an awfully small thing to write a letter about, but it is indeed very serious. The CBC has deliberately misrepresented the truth, and has failed to adress its viewer’s rights to accuracy, fairness and integrity in CBC reporting.
Thank you for both your time and your consideration, it is very much appreciated.
-(name)
The media in USA is almost more liberal biased than the CBC in Canada, if tha,ts possible. The constant attack on there president is unbeleivable.The thought of HIllary or Al Gore as president is scary,
Excuse me, but how does the edit change Bush’s meaning? In both he meant that the government was ready, when it clearly was not. What matters is reality, and the reality that Bush said in the full quote wasn’t the truth [it never happened!].
Kado, I agree that another Clinton or Gore Presidency mocks democracy, but seriously consider that the media attacks Bush not because they are liberally biased, but because they don’t want a criminal who puts journalists in jail, in power?
Saskboy,
Being “prepared” is not the same as being “prepared to assist in the event of…” so it does change the meaning. It’s not the same thing.
Your personal interpretation of what transpired, and journalists, jail etc. will not change the fact that what MacDonald did was to duplicitously modify Bush’s quote, which in turn changed the meaning.
Which in turn added MacDonald ammo to a false AP story. CBC is neck deep in a mess of a story spun by AP and MacDonald.
Leave all your red herrings in the sea.
J
Thank you for your note.
I am forwarding it to the Executive Producer of The National with the
request that your complaints be addressed.
Yours truly,
Vince Carlin
Ombudsman, CBC
This is the response that I received regarding my email complaint to CBC. I really don’t expect that much will change!!!!!!
Off Topic, but WTH. Enough about the CBC already. They are a lost cause. At least CTV is trying to get some things right with this latest W5 report:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060303/WFIVE_immigration_060303/20060304?hub=WFive
Complain all you want, but CBC won’t change.
The more you write to their ombudsman the more you waste your time.