CNN's Anderson Cooper Exposes Hezbollah's Media Manipulations
On Monday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," CNN’s Anderson Cooper related his visit to a Hezbollah-controlled section of Beirut where he was supposed to photograph certain damaged buildings, part of the terrorist group’s strategy of generating news stories about Lebanese civilian casualities caused by Israeli bombs.But instead of merely transmitting Hezbollah’s unverified and unverifiable claims to the…
Live Thread: MRC's Brent Bozell on 'The O'Reilly Factor
The MRC's Brent Bozell will be on the Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" tonight at 8pm Eastern to discuss the media's coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The show repeats at 11pm and 4am Eastern as well. Use this thread to post your comments.
Video of interview (4:22): Real at 100 kbps (3.3 MB), Windows Media at 81 kbps (2.8 MB), plus MP3 audio (1.5 MB).UPDATE: A full transcript is…
Intro to 'Conservative' Carlson's Show Casts Israel as Bully
Wasn't Tucker Carlson supposed to be MSNBC's conservative counterweight to Olbermann, Matthews, & Co? I might have to rethink that one, judging by the opening roll of his 'Tucker' show this afternoon, which clearly cast Israel as the heavy in the current conflict. Here's how it went:Open to video of an Israeli tank firing rounds, as an off-screen voice breathlessly announces "Lebanon,…
WH Reporters Push for Unenforceable Ceasefire
At today's White House press briefing, reporters kept pushing Bush spokesman Tony Snow as to why the administration hasn't been pressuring Israel to go for a non-enforceable ceasefire with Hezbollah in order to avoid bad PR for having a "disproportionate" response to terrorism. That makes no sense, Snow replied since basically this line of thought involves asking Israel to incur civilian…
Media Shocker: Israel Isn’t Exclusively Responsible For Mideast Host
Honestly, NBers, this one took several reads to believe. In fact, I’ve checked the link numerous times, as well as multiple media websites, and this really was reported by the Associated Press: “Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday.”Now, I know what you’re thinking: this was buried…
