1. ABCNews.com Pushes Abortion Agenda, But on Air Notes Clark's... ABC on Thursday night gave a rare few seconds of air time to how Wesley Clark recently said that he supports abortion until the moment of birth, but as ABC News programs ignored the Thursday march to mark the 31st anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, the ABCNews.com Web site on Thursday featured two original stories on abortion, both from the pro-abortion/anti-pro-life agenda. "'Christian Terrorists': Anti-Abortionist Calls for Violence, Says It Is Religious Duty," proclaimed the headline over one story. "A Global Abortion War" announced the headline over the... continue reading
1. ABC: Bush's $250 Million for Job Training "Not Nearly Enough" After Peter Jennings on Wednesday night declared that "as everybody in the country knows, the Bush administration has struggled with its economic policy" since "eight and a half million people are unemployed," ABC reporters complained that Bush's job training program won't spend enough. In two stories, ABC never allowed anyone to suggest the program is too big or beyond the proper role of government. "The plan," ABC's Dean Reynolds explained, "would devote $250 million to create partnerships between community colleges and employers," but, Reynolds stressed, "critics say the money... continue reading
1. ABC Cites Claim Bush "Shredding Constitution," Sees "Red Meat" State of the Union coverage: ABC News. Peter Jennings hit John Kerry with a question from the left, how a student argued that since Kerry backed Bush on some issues, if you support Kerry "you might as well stay home on election day as Bush is already doing a good job of leading America into a war and shredding the Constitution." Jennings also asserted that "beyond all of the lofty phraseology on which speechwriters work so vigorously, tonight there were a huge number of hot button issues which are going... continue reading
1. Jennings Notes Public Trust in Democrats, Skips Trust in Bush ABC's Peter Jennings on Monday night highlighted how a new ABC News/Washington Post poll found that "50 percent or more of Americans trust Democrats in Congress," over President Bush, "to deal with the economy, health insurance and the federal budget deficit." But Jennings failed to note the issues on which voters trust Bush over Democrats or subjects on which Bush has a positive approval rating. 2. CNN's Woodruff Frets About Bush Speech Overshadowing Democrats CNN's Judy Woodruff on Monday afternoon expressed exasperation that President Bush scheduled his State of... continue reading
1. ABC Denounces Bush's Recess Appointment, But Trumpeted Clinton's ABC's inconsistency on recess judicial appointments. On Friday night, Peter Jennings, without uttering a syllable about how Senate Democrats have used unprecedented tactics to block Bush judicial nominees or conveying anything positive about Charles Pickering's qualifications, highlighted how "Democrats accuse Pickering of opposing civil rights" while Senator Kennedy claimed "'the President's appointment serves only to emphasize again this administration's shameful opposition to civil rights.'" But back in December of 2000 when President Clinton made a recess judicial appointment, anchor Aaron Brown treated Clinton as the one fully justified in his actions... continue reading
1. NBC Promotes Al Gore's Attack on Bush's Environmental Record Thursday's NBC Nightly News, in the guise of explaining why the environment has not become an issue yet in the campaign, delivered a one-sided assault on the Bush administration's environmental record. Anchor Tom Brokaw began by showcasing how Al Gore "accused Bush of consistently putting the interests of big campaign contributors in the oil, coal, utility and mining industries ahead of the public interest." After a clip of Gore accusing Bush of being a "moral coward," NBC's Kelly O'Donnell provided a story which featured soundbites from three, unlabeled, liberal environmental... continue reading
1. Bush Over Dems by 21 Points, MSNBC: "No Groundswell for Bush" A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that, as Tim Russert explained on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, President George W. Bush beat every top tier Democratic presidential candidate "by anywhere from 17 to 21 points. At this point in the race it's only a snapshot, but the President's comfortably ahead." Yet this is how the MSNBC.com home page on Wednesday night headlined the finding, "Poll: No groundswell for Bush." And on the inside page, the MSNBC headline declared: "Barely half say Bush should be re-elected." 2. NBC... continue reading
1. Paul O'Neill Backpedals, But CBS and ABC Pretend He Didn't Tuesday morning on NBC's Today, Paul O'Neill backtracked from some of his more incendiary comments as recited by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind in a new book. But while the NBC Nightly News, as well as CNN and FNC picked up on O'Neill's backpedaling, neither ABC or CBS did so on Tuesday night. CNN's King highlighted how "others in those early national security meetings took issue with suggestions Mr. Bush was predisposed to war," but ABC's Peter Jennings ignored what O'Neill said on Today and cited how... continue reading
1. Stephanopoulos Fails to Correct Dean's False $304 Tax Cut Claim Stephanopoulos fails to correct Dean. In an interview with Howard Dean, taped aboard the ABC News campaign bus and shown on Sunday's This Week, Dean repeatedly made the fallacious claim that the bottom 60 percent only got an average tax cut of $304 in the Bush plan. But the "Annenberg Political Fact Check" Web page pounced on Dean's claim as made in an earlier debate: "Half of all U.S. households got more than $470 according to the Tax Policy Center. Dean arrives at his figure by averaging in the... continue reading
1. CNN Contends: "Governor Howard Dean Was No Left-Wing Liberal" CNN set out Wednesday night to prove that Howard Dean was no liberal as Governor of Vermont, but reporter Kelly Wallace used as her authoritative sources the editor of a self-described "alternative" newspaper and a local Democratic legislator. Wallace declared as a "misperception" any idea that Dean governed Vermont as a liberal: "Those who know him well say Governor Howard Dean was no left-wing liberal." Peter Freyne of the Seven Days newspaper opined: "We all laugh at that. Howard Dean represented the Republican wing of the Democratic party." On his... continue reading