Know your enemy.
Read this previous blog entry about the state-run CBC seemingly working in cahoots with a terrorist-like organization in Vancouver yesterday, which would clearly be against our national interests; and compare it with this report from the great Media Research Center web site today.
ABC and CBS Compete to Expose ‘Covert’ U.S. Efforts Inside Iran
ABC and CBS are competing to expose “secret” and “covert” U.S. efforts to undermine Iran’s quest to create nuclear weapons. ABC anchor Charles Gibson opened Tuesday’s World News by introducing a story from Brian Ross: “We begin tonight with exclusive information that the United States has opened a new front in its showdown with Iran. President Bush has directed the CIA to carry out secret operations against Iran, both inside and outside that country.” The next night, Wednesday, the CBS Evening News led with Sheila MacVicar’s report on how “CBS News has learned U.S. and other allied intelligence agencies are actively engaged in covert efforts to sabotage the country’s nuclear program.”
Wednesday’s Good Morning America also featured the Ross “exclusive,” but on Wednesday night’s World News Gibson acknowledged negative reaction to the story but relayed ABC’s defense of the exposure in which the network put the burden on the government for not stopping ABC:
“Our report last night on CIA operations designed to destabilize the regime in Iran triggered some intense reactions today from the Internet to the political arena. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he was shocked to see a report regarding covert action in Iran, and worried it has the potential of jeopardizing national security. ABC News is aware there is a danger of revealing too much in a time of war, and today we issued a statement saying: ‘In the six days since we first contacted the CIA and the White House, at no time did they indicate that broadcasting this report would jeopardize lives or operations on the ground. They had the repeated opportunity to make whatever objection they wanted to regarding our report, but they chose not to.’”
So ABC wants the government to censor ABC for them? I see.
And that whole Valerie Plame thing? Never mind!
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