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 Read the article. Watch the video.
2/26/06 21:34:16
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This story was featured in the Washington Post today. I think the video speaks for itself. As does the decision to assign a reporter to write this story, a multimedia editor to format the video and a photo editor to make a photo gallery (titled "Middle-Age, Gansta Style"). It’s hard to get more Caucasian than this, folks.
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Cafferty continues to keep it real
2/15/06 20:29:10
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Thank the Lord for Jack Cafferty, the one on-air CNN employee who’s not afraid of his own shadow:
After admitting he hasn’t seen the full interview with Dick Cheney yet, CNN’s Jack Cafferty had the following to say on The Situation Room at 4:15pm: "I would guess it didn’t exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that’s a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain’t it? Where was the news conference? Where was the access to all of the members of the media?"
A moment later, Cafferty added: "I mean, running over there to the Fox network. Talk about seeking a safe haven. He’s not going to get any high hard ones from anybody at the F-word network. I think we know that."
Also: An e-mailer says CNN avoided using the word Fox this afternoon: "CNN this hour saying that Dick Cheney is doing an interview ’with a cable network’ and in a TV interview this afternoon Cheney told "the interviewer’ and then goes on to give Cheney quotes without naming Fox News as the source of the interview or Brit Hume as the interviewer..."
Right you are Jack. To review: The Vice President of the United States shot a man. The VP then decided to let a civilian break the bad news:
Mr. Cheney, who was carrying a 28-gauge shotgun, had already begun to fire at quail and sprayed Mr. Whittington by accident, she said.
Mr. Hume told Fox News after the interview, which he said lasted 25 minutes, that Mr. Cheney "was unapologetic" about how he handled the public release of information on the incident.
Mr. Cheney said Ms. Armstrong "suggested, and I agreed, that she would make the announcement."
He said he believed Ms. Armstrong was "an acknowledged expert in all of this" because she was a hunter herself and past head of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and because she had witnessed the incident.
"You can get as accurate a story as possible from somebody who knew and understood hunting and then it would immediately go up to the wires and be posted on the Web site, which is the way it went out and I thought that was the right call," Mr. Cheney said.
Mr. Hume asked the vice president during the interview whether he still believed this was the best way to handle the disclosure of the accident, seeing that the delay in coming forth himself earlier has caused a furor in Washington.
" I still do," Mr. Cheney said. "The accuracy was enormously important. I had no press person with me.
"I was on a private weekend with friends on a private ranch," he said.
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Another O’Reilly reminder
2/11/06 12:01:00
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Thanks to our good friends at Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O’Reilly, following is a transcript of a recent Talking Points Memo:
Network rivalry: That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo.
All of us here at FOX News send prayers and best wishes to the families of Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt. As you may know, the ABC News anchor and photographer were badly injured by a bomb in Iraq over the weekend. Both are expected to recover.
Covering any kind of foreign conflict is chaotic and dangerous. And it’s a miracle more journalists aren’t killed or hurt. All Americans share the highest respect for press people, who literally put their lives on the line to bring us information.
There is a code among most in TV news, a respect and professional courtesy. Thus when guys like Woodruff and Vogt get hurt, the industry stands together.
We’re all competing, but ethics dictate that standards of behavior should be met. FOX
News has good relationships with ABC News, CBS News and generally CNN, also with most local news operations across the country, but Talking Points is troubled by the behavior of NBC, which cheap shots FOX News on a regular basis and has been doing
so for some time.
It is only a few people doing this, but NBC President Robert Wright allows it to happen. Wright knows exactly what’s going on, because he’s been made aware of it.
Now we understand that NBC has major problems. Its prime-time programming is dead last. Its cable operations are ratings failures. And the network may lose Katie Couric to CBS, but that is no excuse for unprofessional behavior.
Consistently cheap shotting a competitor is beneath the fine standards that NBC has set in the past. Robert Wright would be wise to understand that.
There is no question the amazing success of FOX News has affected all TV news operations, but CNN, for example, usually competes with class, not bitterness. Likewise, we respect ABC and CBS for their work ethic and competitive zeal.
But there’s something very wrong at NBC. And if it continues, Talking Points will go into greater detail about the problems besetting that network. We hope Robert Wright will right the situation and believe he has the power to do it.
But perhaps we’re wrong about Wright. Maybe he’s out of the loop or maybe he just doesn’t care. Well, he should care. We’ll let you know what happens.
And that’s The Memo.
Interesting points all, but I can’t help but feel compelled to remind Bill O’Reilly that Bob Wright has managed to avoid getting both himself and NBC mired in an expensive, embarrassing lawsuit brought by a former subordinate, and that indeed, to the best of my knowledge, Bob Wright has never suggested that an NBC producer insert a falafel in her genitalia.
That is all.
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Olbermann on fire
2/1/06 21:20:27
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Watch this.
It’s kind of funny that Olbermann, George Clooney and Al Franken are the few high-profile people who are willing to hit Bill O’Reilly regularly with his equivalent of kryptonite: Andrea Mackris. Constant references to "O’Reilly’s producer" and her embarrassing, expensive lawsuit are literally all that can stop O’Reilly in his tracks, since trying to reason with him or appealing to his decency, integrity and sense of shame are obviously a waste of time. No, all that O’Reilly understands is brute force. Are you listening, Jon Klein?
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SOTU review
2/1/06 21:04:48
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So another State of the Union has passed, thank God.
Despite all the bloviating you see on tv -- the breathless analysis, the overly excited pre-game shows -- most journos hate State of the Union night. Nothing much happens except for pundits spouting cliches, and everyone has to work late. So it’s a lose-lose kind of night overall.
It’s hard to remember anything Bill Clinton said during all those addresses, and he was a helluva speaker. What one does remember are the weird circumstances surrounding some of the speeches. In 1997, the media panicked when the word came down that the O.J. Simpson civil verdict would be issued at the same time as SOTU. Some news organizations asked Mike McCurry to delay the address (after considering the possibility for a nanosecond, McCurry told the MSM reps to get stuffed). In 1998, a rumor circulated that SOTU would be cancelled, even that Clinton might resign in shame before the address because of the Lewinsky scandal (it wasn’t. He didn’t). In 1999, the speech occured as the impeachment trial was in progress. Exciting times all around, but not one word of the speeches comes to mind.
Which is not something you can say about George W. Bush. If nothing else, each speech has provided food for thought long after the rest of the address’s points faded from memory. Consider: 2002 was the year of the "axis of evil". 2003 was the year of yellowcake (2003 may be remembered as the year of crappy vetting. A month later, Colin Powell would give a similarly poorly vetted speech about Iraq before the Security Council. The rest is history). In 2004, Bush warned of the dangers of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports (he brought it up for the sake of The Kids). 2005 I don’t remember. And 2006 may be remembered as the year that switch grass entered the national consciousness (or is it switchgrass? Not even Google can clarify that point). Or maybe not.
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Again, not gone
2/1/06 08:04:44
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It’s the first of the month, so all previous postings have been archived. Will post my thoughts on State of the Union addresses past and present later today. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the fun-filled archives.
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