The fantastic Media Research Center reveals the bias in the news media better than any organization I know of. Today, they cover the story that Canadian media is sure to catch up with tomorrow or next week or whenever they get over Gore and Bono meeting in Davos. Watch for it!
It’s a “news” report from “a non-profit research group” that informs us, “factually”: that “Bush told a total of 935 lies” before the Iraq war. Probably more! Yay!
Note how the MRC finds it being reported in the U.S. and you can relate it to what I constantly cover here, daily. Pay particular attention to what the media omits in introducing their “news” story source, and also the financial support factor behind all the “facts”: yes, it’s CBC’s favorite source, yesterday, George Soros:
Outlets Disguise Agenda of Ex-Reporter’s Group, Hype Iraq ‘Lies’
AP, MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times on Wednesday all promoted a “study” by a couple of affiliated far-left groups, supposedly documenting “935 false statements” about Iraq made by Bush officials, but in hyping the proof of “lies” which led to war, the news outlets disguised the ideology of the groups—led by a former ABC and CBS reporter/producer—and how many of the “false” statements were about Iraq possessing WMD, which FNC’s [Fox News Channel] Brit Hume pointed out was “a concept nearly universally accepted by most of the world’s intelligence services at the time.”
Keith Olbermann [MSNBC], who in 2006 slammed the Media Research Center as a “rabid right-wing spin group,” Wednesday night on Countdown with “935 lies” on screen on top of a picture of Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, described the Center for Public Integrity and Fund for Independence in Journalism as merely “two non-profit groups” who have “done the algebra” on “the administration’s countless lies about Iraq.” Last September, CNN’s Jack Cafferty accurately described the MRC as a “conservative media watchdog outfit,” but he euphemistically tagged the left-wing groups as “two non-profit journalism groups” with a study which “found President Bush led the pack with 260 lies.” Cafferty’s labeling echoed AP’s reference to “two non-profit journalism organizations.”
MSNBC’s Dan Abrams lent the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) credibility as “a non-profit, non-partisan investigative journalism group.” On WashingtonPost.com, Dan Froomkin hailed the “non-profit group pursuing old-fashioned accountability journalism” and a Wednesday New York Times story cited CPI as “a research group that focuses on ethics in government and public policy.”
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FNC’s [Fox News Channel] Brit Hume on Wednesday night noted the common belief of many of the statements considered false and how George Soros funds CPI. From the January 23 “Grapevine” segment on Special Report with Brit Hume:
A study by two self-described non-profit journalism organizations accuses President Bush and his advisers of 935 false statements about the threat from Iraq in the two years following the 9-11 attacks. But a large number of those statements were drawn from repeated assertions that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction—a concept nearly universally accepted by most of the world’s intelligence services at the time. For example, President Bush said of Hussein quote, “He has weapons of mass destruction. He’s used them before. He’s used them on his own people before.” In fact we know now that Hussein had chemical weapons. He was being tried on charges of killing 5,000 Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons when he was executed for other crimes.
The study was done by the Fund for Independence in Journalism—which is an arm of the Center for Public Integrity—which is heavily funded by Bush critic George Soros.
In his “Best of the Web Today” rundown for the Wall Street Journal’s Web site, James Taranto critiqued an AP dispatch headlined, “Study: False statements preceded war.” Taranto asserted:
Nowhere in the entire dispatch does the AP tell us anything more about the two groups than that they are “nonprofit journalism organizations.” In fact, the Center for Public Integrity is a liberal-left group that has taken money from George Soros, who has compared contemporary America to Nazi Germany. The Fund for Independence in Journalism seems to be but a spinoff; its Web site says its “primary purpose is providing legal defense and endowment support” for the center.
Try to remember some of this when the liberals’ Canadian media division picks up the “news” story for our own anti-Bush educational purposes here in Canada.
See if they mention any of these words in their reporting: “George Soros”, “left wing”, “biased”, “phony”, or “total BS”.
EXTRA:
Noticed that tonight on Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly pointed out the media deceit.
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