So the McCain campaign is getting upset because the media love affair with the so called "maverick" is slowly coming to a close and they are starting to be treated like every other candidate. Time to start point the finger of blame, and it seems that Andrea Mitchell is the first target.
August 17, 2008
Mr. Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller PlazaNew
York, NY 10112
Steve:
We are extremely disappointed to see that the level of objectivity at NBC News has fallen so low that reporters are now giving voice to unsubstantiated, partisan claims in order to undercut John McCain.
Nowhere was this more evident than with NBC chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell's comments on "Meet the Press" this morning. In analyzing last night's presidential forum at Saddleback Church, Mitchell expressed the Obama campaign spin that John McCain could only have done so well last night because he "may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama." Here are Andrea Mitchell's comments in full:
Mitchell: "The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well-prepared." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 8/17/08)
Make no mistake: This is a serious charge. Andrea Mitchell is repeating, uncritically, a completely unsubstantiated Obama campaign claim that John McCain somehow cheated in last night's forum at Saddleback Church. Instead of trying to substantiate this blatant falsehood in any way, Andrea Mitchell felt that she needed to repeat it on air to millions of "Meet the Press" viewers with no indication that 1.) There's not one shred of evidence that it's true; 2.) In his official correspondence to both campaigns, Pastor Rick Warren provided both candidates with information regarding the topic areas to be covered, which Barack Obama acknowledged during the forum when asked about Pastor Warren's idea of an emergency plan for orphans and Obama said, "I cheated a little bit. I actually looked at this idea ahead of time, and I think it is a great idea;" 3.) John McCain actually requested that he and Barack Obama do the forum together on stage at the same time, making these kinds of after-the-fact complaints moot.
Indeed, instead of taking a critical journalistic approach to this spin, Andrea Mitchell did what has become a pattern for her of simply repeating Obama campaign talking points.
This is irresponsible journalism and sadly, indicative of the level of objectivity we have witnessed at NBC News this election cycle. Instead of examining the Obama campaign's spin for truth before reporting it to more than 3 million NBC News viewers, Andrea Mitchell simply passed along Obama campaign conspiracy theories. The fact is that during Senator Obama's segment at Saddleback last night, Senator McCain was in a motorcade to the event and then held in a green room with no broadcast feed. In the forum, John McCain clearly demonstrated to the American people that he is prepared to be our next President.....
We are concerned that your News Division is following MSNBC's lead in abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race. We would like to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss our deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC.
Sincerely,
Rick Davis
Campaign Manager
John McCain 2008
Does the McCain campaign really want to have this discussion? Fine.
How about we launch a non partisan investigation into how MSNBC covers the candidates while at the same time doing a parallel investigation of how FOX News covers the candidates. Hell let's throw in CNN, CBS, and ABC in there as well.
What does the John McCain and his cronies think such an investigation will prove? Do they seriously think that MSNBC will be the one that shows prejudice? Hell no.
So STFU McCain, you hypocritical son of a bitch! You and every other person with half of a brain know that FOX NEWS is the Republican party personal propaganda machine. So stop acting like a petulant child and deal with the fact that not everybody buys your straight talking bullshit!
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Now hang on a second. Nobody ever claimed that FOXNews wasn't a conservative network. And the reasaon why libtards are so upset is because it does so great! Libtards have CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC. All we have is Fox. I don't think the liberals really have to much too worry about, unless of course too many of the left viewers turn to the dark side.
ReplyDeleteHey galactic if you continue to act as if you are blissfully unaware of the fact that no conservative has EVER admitted that FOX News is a Republican mouthpiece then we are not going to be able to engage in an honest dialogue about media coverage in this country.
ReplyDeleteI will cop to the fact that Obama received more coverage then McCain has so far in this election cycle. However the idea that it has been more positive has already been disproved by two separate studies.
And the extra coverage may be attributable to the fact that Obama is the new guy and everybody already knows McCain, or that Obama is black and that is new, or that Obama is raising a ton of money and drawing huge crowds. But I am not at all convinced that he gets more attention because they favor him. Though every intelligent person who has lived through these last eight years SHOULD favor him.
But my point is that FOX News prostitutes itself for the Republicans and in no way can you compare that to what MSNBC, or CNN, or any other news outlet does.