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Media Bias?
Posted by: Sebastian on 
Sep 14th, 2008 | 
Filed under: 2008 Election, The Media
ABC News edited key parts of Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin. Now, I’m not a professional journalist, but I would think if you need to edit a segment for length, you cut out questions, along with the answers. It appears to me that all the answers that reflected the depth of her understanding of issues ended up on the cutting room floor.
But hey, ABC News has an election to win. All is fair in politics right?
September 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Micheal Moore won awards for doing the same thing.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
[...] H/T to Sebastian. [...]
September 14th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
[...] Miss anything important? Well, other than ABC trying to win an election? [...]
September 14th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Our gas only went up 10 cents a gallon. We’re not fed by the southern refineries that were affected by Ike.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Exact words from the interview:
Charlie Gibson: I… am… George… Washington…
September 14th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I dunno…that link is making its way around the blogosphere and frankly I don’t see anything that exculpates Palin on the big booboo to come out of the interview.
Let’s not oversell here–the reality is that foreign policy and experience isn’t going to be her strongpoint, and she’s pretty clearly just not that knowledgeable about those subjects.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Oh, I agree that she’s a novice, but she’s clearly more knowledgeable than that interview makes her out to be as edited.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Palin has about as much foreign policy experience as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. I just cannot fathom this insistence by the media that a state Governor that is the BOTTOM OF THE TICKET go under such scrutiny for their foreign policy bonafides.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Palin has about as much foreign policy experience as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
I meant to say that Palin has about as much foreign policy experience as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton HAD when they ran for President.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Yeah, I think that’s true. The reason she’s under such scrutiny is because even if she is technically at the bottom of the ticket, she’s been overshadowing McCain.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
They were doing it in ‘68 and it worked then (I was there, I know), so why change a winning formula?
September 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Well, the Russia thing, for starters. I can understand a moral stance holding war with Russia to be worthwhile in some circumstances, but that’s about as likely to fly politically as a lead balloon. Advocating political and economic disincentives is a little Obamain, but it’s also a bit more mainstream. Similar results on the Iran thing. They also cut out a lot of stuff that plays well with libertarian fanboys on “duty to defend”.
It doesn’t completely clear her of the “Bush Doctrine” matter, but I think you’ll find that most Republican- and moderate- leaning individuals don’t know what that is, either.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:11 am
“Bush Doctrine” is an epithet generated by the media. There is no such thing. If you ask the media to define it, it is whatever about current Bush administration foreign policy that they disagree with.
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