"Oil"-Reilly again gushed misleading Iraqi oil statistics
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly again misleadingly maintained that Iraqi oil production is one of the success stories of the war, reporting that "[o]il production is up to 100 percent." As Media Matters for America has previously explained, O'Reilly ignores the fact that the current capacity of the Iraqi oil industry has greatly diminished from pre-war levels. While Iraq may indeed be producing at current capacity, the overall amount of oil the nation is producing is less than before the war.
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Brock to O'Reilly: Stop distorting Jeremy Glick's words
September 27, 2005
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For the record: Media figures admit they have been easy on Bush White House since 9-11
In recent weeks, several prominent journalists have publicly acknowledged that the U.S. media accorded President Bush too much deference following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams both noted that it was only in observing government failures in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort that journalists began seriously to challenge the administration. NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell conceded that reporters have been "less challenging" since the attacks. Friedman wrote that the 9-11 attacks created in the media a "deference" towards the administration. Williams described the press corps as "settling in to too comfortable a journalistic pattern," a phenomenon he described as the "9/11 syndrome."
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Tierney seemingly absolved from NY Times public editor's corrections crusade
Since September 2, New York Times public editor Byron E. Calame has strongly and publicly criticized Times columnist Paul Krugman for failing to adequately correct an error in his August 19 column. Calame has persisted in criticizing Krugman, claiming in a September 26 Times op-ed and in two entries on his Times Web journal that the lack of an adequate "formal correction" from Krugman shows that "the corrections policy of Gail Collins, editor of the Times' editorial page, is not being fully enforced." But, despite his professed intention to maintain accuracy on the Times' op-ed page, Calame has yet to criticize Times columnist John Tierney, whose twice-a-week columns have included several factual inaccuracies.
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Russert repeated false Knight Ridder claim that Cindy Sheehan "protested outside [Hillary] Clinton's New York office"
On the September 25 broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert suggested that Cindy Sheehan's anti-war activism might negatively affect a potential 2008 presidential campaign by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). In doing so, Russert read an excerpt of a Knight Ridder article that reported that "anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan protested outside Clinton's New York office" -- despite the fact that the protest in question occurred at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, more than seven miles from Clinton's nearest office.
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Brock to O'Reilly: Stop distorting Jeremy Glick's words
September 27, 2005
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For the record: Media figures admit they have been easy on Bush White House since 9-11
In recent weeks, several prominent journalists have publicly acknowledged that the U.S. media accorded President Bush too much deference following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams both noted that it was only in observing government failures in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort that journalists began seriously to challenge the administration. NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell conceded that reporters have been "less challenging" since the attacks. Friedman wrote that the 9-11 attacks created in the media a "deference" towards the administration. Williams described the press corps as "settling in to too comfortable a journalistic pattern," a phenomenon he described as the "9/11 syndrome."
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Tierney seemingly absolved from NY Times public editor's corrections crusade
Since September 2, New York Times public editor Byron E. Calame has strongly and publicly criticized Times columnist Paul Krugman for failing to adequately correct an error in his August 19 column. Calame has persisted in criticizing Krugman, claiming in a September 26 Times op-ed and in two entries on his Times Web journal that the lack of an adequate "formal correction" from Krugman shows that "the corrections policy of Gail Collins, editor of the Times' editorial page, is not being fully enforced." But, despite his professed intention to maintain accuracy on the Times' op-ed page, Calame has yet to criticize Times columnist John Tierney, whose twice-a-week columns have included several factual inaccuracies.
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Russert repeated false Knight Ridder claim that Cindy Sheehan "protested outside [Hillary] Clinton's New York office"
On the September 25 broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert suggested that Cindy Sheehan's anti-war activism might negatively affect a potential 2008 presidential campaign by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). In doing so, Russert read an excerpt of a Knight Ridder article that reported that "anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan protested outside Clinton's New York office" -- despite the fact that the protest in question occurred at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, more than seven miles from Clinton's nearest office.
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