Ravenwood - 03/25/03 11:55 AM
The Media Research Center reports that while most networks are frantically trying to cover the war the best they can, ABC seems to be carving out a niche with the Anti-War crowd. Jennings and Koppel have been working overtime to ensure that the anti-war crowd is heard, and thrown softball questions like "Why do you feel so strongly about this war?" Meanwhile, Ari Fleisher and members of the Administration are hit with hardball anti-war conundrums.
Shortly after major air attacks on key buildings in Baghdad, ABC's Terry Moran asked Ari Fleischer if the President cared about the deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians: "Have you heard him talk about this responsibility, which may weigh on him heavily today, and that is for the deaths of innocents, for Iraqi moms and dads and children who may, despite our best efforts, be killed?"I've always known that media outlets are in the business to make money, and will do anything they can to draw ratings away from the competition. I just wish they would drop the bullshit 'Holier than thou' attitude.
I was actually surprised last night when the Wonderful Spouse turned on CNN (which we rarely watcn), and the coverage was pretty balanced (not as well as I would like - but really good for them).
We then watched ABC's news and, even though we are used to their anti-war slant, that slant was made more apparent because of what we had previously watched.
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