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Here are the latest items from Media Matters for America, click on 'read more' to read the entire item.
Where is media outrage over purported government attempts to restrict Katrina coverage?
A September 7 Reuters article reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "asked the media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath" and "refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas." FEMA's actions, along with further reports that the government is obstructing journalists in New Orleans, have drawn little attention -- and even less outrage -- from the very media institutions that the agency, part of the Bush administration, seeks to repress. Media Matters for America wonders: What will it take for the media to protest (or at least report) the Bush administration's efforts to control them?
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Media ignored, mischaracterized Pelosi's account of Bush query on federal response to Katrina: "What didn't go right?"
Numerous media outlets have mischaracterized or ignored entirely House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) account of how, during a conversation with her at the White House, President Bush allegedly demonstrated that he was, in Pelosi's words, "oblivious" to the federal government's failures in responding to the threat and subsequent destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.
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Just days after Bush aide lied about Blanco in Wash. Post article, the Post noted Democrats' "harsh rhetoric," which "could create a backlash"
In a September 8 article, The Washington Post reported Republican complaints that "Democrats are seeking political gain at a moment of national crisis," noted "strident" criticism of President Bush by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and paraphrased warnings by unnamed "strategists" of a "backlash" against the "harsh rhetoric" -- all while ignoring strident and false attacks against Democrats made by the White House and its allies.
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Chavez, Murdock advanced dubious claim that Bush convinced Blanco to evacuate New Orleans
Conservative syndicated columnists Linda Chavez and Deroy Murdock advanced the dubious claim that it took a telephone call from President Bush to prompt Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to order the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. As Media Matters for America has previously documented, there is little evidence to support this contention.
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Stossel: Price gouging ensures that scarce resources go only "to those who really need it"
In his September 7 syndicated column, ABC News 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel defended price gougers, writing that by charging $20 for a bottle of water to a person whose baby needed it to live, "the price gouger makes sure his water goes to those who really need it." Stossel added: "It was the price gouger's 'exploitation' that saved your child." He justified this claim because price gougers -- people and companies that charge exorbitant prices for scarce and necessary resources (such as water or oil) -- "save lives" because they dependably provide those necessary goods or services to those who need them, motivated by their own self-interest to make money.
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NPR's Liasson: "[A]ny time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad"
On the September 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, National Public Radio (NPR) national political correspondent and Fox News political correspondent Mara Liasson stated that "any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad."
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Here are the latest items from Media Matters for America, click on 'read more' to read the entire item.
Where is media outrage over purported government attempts to restrict Katrina coverage?
A September 7 Reuters article reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "asked the media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath" and "refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas." FEMA's actions, along with further reports that the government is obstructing journalists in New Orleans, have drawn little attention -- and even less outrage -- from the very media institutions that the agency, part of the Bush administration, seeks to repress. Media Matters for America wonders: What will it take for the media to protest (or at least report) the Bush administration's efforts to control them?
Read more...
Media ignored, mischaracterized Pelosi's account of Bush query on federal response to Katrina: "What didn't go right?"
Numerous media outlets have mischaracterized or ignored entirely House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) account of how, during a conversation with her at the White House, President Bush allegedly demonstrated that he was, in Pelosi's words, "oblivious" to the federal government's failures in responding to the threat and subsequent destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Read more...
Just days after Bush aide lied about Blanco in Wash. Post article, the Post noted Democrats' "harsh rhetoric," which "could create a backlash"
In a September 8 article, The Washington Post reported Republican complaints that "Democrats are seeking political gain at a moment of national crisis," noted "strident" criticism of President Bush by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and paraphrased warnings by unnamed "strategists" of a "backlash" against the "harsh rhetoric" -- all while ignoring strident and false attacks against Democrats made by the White House and its allies.
Read more...
Chavez, Murdock advanced dubious claim that Bush convinced Blanco to evacuate New Orleans
Conservative syndicated columnists Linda Chavez and Deroy Murdock advanced the dubious claim that it took a telephone call from President Bush to prompt Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to order the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. As Media Matters for America has previously documented, there is little evidence to support this contention.
Read more...
Stossel: Price gouging ensures that scarce resources go only "to those who really need it"
In his September 7 syndicated column, ABC News 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel defended price gougers, writing that by charging $20 for a bottle of water to a person whose baby needed it to live, "the price gouger makes sure his water goes to those who really need it." Stossel added: "It was the price gouger's 'exploitation' that saved your child." He justified this claim because price gougers -- people and companies that charge exorbitant prices for scarce and necessary resources (such as water or oil) -- "save lives" because they dependably provide those necessary goods or services to those who need them, motivated by their own self-interest to make money.
Read more...
NPR's Liasson: "[A]ny time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad"
On the September 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, National Public Radio (NPR) national political correspondent and Fox News political correspondent Mara Liasson stated that "any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad."
Read more...
Link Here
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