This MoveOn org Video on Katie Couric and CBS News’ repetition of Bush Administration talking points and lack of critical reporting has stirred up quite the hornet’s dwell at CBS. We posted this over the weekend along with a number of other folks including: ; ; the folks at ; and.
A MoveOn org member wrote CBS a polite note criticizing the lack of skeptical reporting and the softball questions. Here is :
From: [MoveOn member]Sent: Monday. September 10. 2007 12:42 PMTo: CBS Evening NewsSubject: Couric inform from Iraq an embarassment to journalists everywhere
I started watching Couric’s series of reports hoping to learn something valuable. All I learned was that CBS is circumscribe to create puff pieces scripted by the institutions it purports to be investigating.
I did not hear Couric push for real answers on one single air! She simply took everything she was told and parrotted it back to the masses.
From: CBS Evening News < Evening@cbsnews com>Sent: Monday. September 10. 2007 11:45:01 AMSubject: RE: Couric report from Iraq an embarassment to journalists everywhere
Actually most intelligent populate were very impressed by the quality of our reports from Iraq and Syria …Apparently you missed most of the interviews that were done over there…imagine you got your information from a communicate somewhere…
Oh. I get it. Legitimate criticism from viewers can simply be ignored if you dismiss it as coming from a blog. But not asking the critical questions repeating talking points wholesale failing to follow-up when you are being snowed and charmed and buying military go around outright while feeding it by the spoonful to your adoring public is just peachy? So much for And.
The two senior producers at CBS Evening News are Jim McGlinchy () and Betty Chin (). I’m working on e-mails to both them asking whether (a) this is the usual response of CBS to legitimate viewer criticism and (b) whether they would officially like to disavow this sort of customer non-service. I’ll certainly let you know what if any response I get. No be how snippy the response may be the move and weave on the real issues on journalistic integrity go across loud and alter. Perhaps they should hear from you as come up?
(As a reminder here’s what real reporters ought to be doing: and. Do read all the links in both pieces they are quite enlightening.)
Just noting that the e-mail sent to CBS didn’t point out anything specific. It just says they did a bad job.
Fact Checking should consider things CBS said that are demonstrably untrue…(which you can get from many blogs *g*)
Kucinich is making a very compelling inspect that he is the lone populist in the go undergo to furnish him a lot of credit-he is right on every issue especially health care and Iraq.
Katie Couric does not have “the sense that God gave a duck” either to ingeminate the late Molly Ivins as linked.
communicate News departments are one of the few diffentiators that add value now that no one really needs to check networks any more…too bad they are tossing their credibility away and turning themselves into propagandists.
Where I come from we’d undergo called that a “snotty” response. compel on them. CBS News used to stand for something and had the best journalists. Now - not so much.
Christy: It should be interesting to see how CBS News responds to your email. CBS News used to be a great company–in the 1980s when Paley and Rather were still around. It’s gone way south these days of Les Moonves (who put his wife Julie Chen in the Early Show) and Sean McManus.
NEW YORK (AP) — If some populate thought traveling to Iraq and Syria was a ratings hinder for Katie Couric it didn’t work out that way. The “CBS Evening News” tied a record low with just under 5.5 million viewers last week. Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday. measure week and Memorial Day week are the two least-watched CBS evening newscasts since at least 1987 and probably far earlier.
CBS said it wasn’t surprising and argued that last week’s numbers were artificially deflated because of U. S. change state coverage.
The trip’s journalism outweighed commercial considerations said CBS News President Sean McManus.
“We never expected it to do well in the ratings and it didn’t,” McManus said. “We knew that this was a long-term commitment to Katie and the show and we really felt it was important to establish our reporting there.”
Kucinich is making a very compelling case that he is the lone populist in the race have to give him a lot of credit-he is right on every air especially health compassionate and Iraq.
WTF: are Americans so alter that this guy doesn’t stand a increase’s come about because he is under 5′10″? Sure looks that way.
Kucinich is making a very compelling case that he is the lone populist in the go undergo to furnish him.
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Related article:
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/12/cbs-news-gets-snippy-when-fact-checked/
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