NBC's Today Champions Anti-Bush “Raging Grannies
August 8th, 2005 8:39 PM
Monday's Today on NBC devoted over seven minutes of its last half hour to a friendly story and interview with “raging grannies,” some elderly women in Tucson who hold small rallies outside military recruiting offices where they don big, colorful hats and sing song parodies, such as “we're here to stop the war machine, don't get in our way!", "Halliburton profits from war," “taxes unending,…
Chris Matthews continues to bang the anti-war drum
August 5th, 2005 11:32 AM
On last night's Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews did his best to keep morale down here on the home front when he brought on anti-war parents of a fallen soldier and asserted American lives were being "wasted" on Iraq like "pouring water into a sand hole." The following is just some of the exchange. Read on for more.MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Mr. Schroeder, why do you think we`re in this war?…
NYT Did Its Bit for (Quote) Recycling
August 3rd, 2005 6:57 AM
The Pentagon has admitted an "egregious" fault in using the same quote from an anonymous Iraqi in two press releases 11 days apart.Besides one brief mention last week, however, there's been no comment from the New York Times, which is rather surprising -- or perhaps not, given the Times' own quote-recycling history.