FNC: Spy Scandal "Getting More Serious"; CBS: It's No Big Deal 1) CNN and FNC noted how Carter condemned Clinton, but not ABC, CBS or NBC. No Chinagate on ABC or NBC. CBS made time for 20 anti-police protestors. An anti-gun control parent got a soundbite. 2) FNC: "The China nuclear spy scandal just keeps on getting more serious." Carl Cameron revealed an investigation of spying at two more labs under Clinton and an FBI official says to Reno: "Bull." 3) "Many of the [Cox] report's scary findings are open to question," insisted CBS News reporter Eric Engberg in a... continue reading
FNC Uncovered Retribution; Bias Pondered; HRC Hailed by Rather 1) Cox Report forgotten by CBS and NBC Wednesday night. Only ABC aired a related story. NBC focused on highway repair and hearing aide use. CBS watchers learned about a coin counting machine. 2) An ethics investigation will check allegations that a Defense Dept. staffer "faced reprisals...for offering key testimony to the Cox committee's investigation," FNC's Carl Cameron disclosed. 3) FNC's Eric Burns explored how "conservatives suggest that the story [Chinagate] is not being covered for reasons of politics... that there is a liberal bias at the big three networks." 4)... continue reading
CyberAlert EXTRA: Police Brutality Before Spying; Rather/Hillary 1) May 26 morning shows: NBC put Louima police brutality case, with Geraldo as guest expert, before espionage; CBS gave more time to becoming a nun than China; only ABC went first with Cox. 2) Tonight 60 Minutes II will air Dan Rather's interview of Hillary Clinton. In 1993 he declared: "If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been... we'd take it right now and walk away winners." And, in his last interview with her he oozed: "I don't know of anybody, friend or foe, who... continue reading
Gun Control Before Espionage at CBS & NBC 1) Of the broadcast nets, only ABC led with the Cox Report and only FNC raised specific complaints about how Clinton policy made things worse. CBS relayed how China blames America's "right wing." 2) Pushing aside Cox NBC and CBS led with guns. NBC focused on the nation's post-Columbine mood swing against guns as represented by Rosie O'Donnell, Sharon Stone and a woman who called a Boston talk show, but NBC ignored many more pro-gun callers to WRKO. 3) Investor's Business Daily illustrated the media double standard in Chinagate versus Iran-Contra. 1... continue reading
Reno as Victim; Clinton in on Cover-Up?; McCarthyite Republicans 1) ABC and CBS, but not NBC, previewed the Cox Report Monday night but avoided the donation angle. Dan Rather complained: "With 20 years worth of blame for both Republicans and Democrats to go around, some in Congress are now singling out" Janet Reno. 2) FBI wiretaps, FNC's Carl Cameron disclosed, "indicate that President Clinton and China's President Jiang Zemin had agreed on how to spin the story if it got out." Blame "princelings." 3) Eleven weeks into the scandal ABC's Good Morning America finally aired its first interview about Chinese... continue reading
Connecting $ to Spying; Clinton's Great Week; Nightline Absence 1) Fox's Carl Cameron related Sunday that documents "connect China's illegal campaign contributions to...Clinton with specific cases of Beijing's acquisition of U.S. military technology." 2) The Sunday interview shows focused on the Cox Report, but it only generated 58 seconds on the only broadcast show in the evening. Nothing on a Democrat calling for Reno's resignation. 3) Newsweek's Eleanor Clift complained about how the fuss over espionage reflected a plot to "distract from what was a terrific week" for Clinton and Gore on gun control. 4) NBC's Andrea Mitchell held Presidents... continue reading
Gun Control Too Late; Cox Talks to Fox; Selleck vs. O'Donnell 1) Soundbites advocating the Senate's gun control bill beat opponents by 3-to-1 on ABC, 2-to-1 on CBS and 3-to-2 on NBC, but unlike ABC at least CBS and NBC relayed how Republicans say the answer is "not more laws but enforcing current ones." NBC gave a Democrat time to say a Hillary Senate run would "make a difference ...on issues that she cares about -- children, families." 2) The Senate's agreement for more gun control, ABC's Ann Compton lamented, "comes too late to be of much comfort to Littleton."... continue reading
FNC Displays Clinton Lying; Hitting Selleck; Clinton's Gun Buddy 1) Another day at the networks, another day avoiding Chinagate. NBC instead focused on abused zoo animals. 2) FNC outlined how a psychiatrist claims Clinton's testimony video can be used as a manual for detecting lying. 3) Today's Matt Lauer demanded actor Tom Selleck defend his ties to the NRA, asking him to justify an ad featuring him saying it's good for young people to learn the sport of shooting. 4) "'There's no good reason for a child to own an AK-47,' Clinton said...just as there's no good reason for a... continue reading
Cox Clogged by Commerce; Today Showcased Webcam Zoomed in on Goldberg 1) "The Commerce Department is now blocking" the "declassification and release" of the Cox Report, FNC's Carl Cameron told Brit Hume. 2) NBC's Gwen Ifill complained that after "a month of public outrage" over the Columbine shooting "the Senate still remains tangled up in finger pointing over gun control." CBS highlighted how "trust is the theme of every Bradley speech." 3) Steve Roberts arguing for gun regulations: "Are they preventive? No....They do work. They don't, there are no guarantees, they don't prevent anything." Got it? 4) Today showcased Michael... continue reading
ABC: Lanny Davis a Truth Teller; Media "Help" GOP Correct Gun Error 1) Dan Rather tagged Ehud Barak as "less conservative" than Netanyahu. All the evening shows ran pieces on an Indian tribe's whale hunt and in one ABC referred to Greenpeace as "mainstream." 2) "So the thing to do as a spin-meister, get the facts out, and then try to put the best possible interpretation on them with the press," ABC's Charlie Gibson prompted Lanny Davis who absurdly replied: "That's what we tried to do in the Clinton White House." 3) During a flight in a Blue Angels jet... continue reading