O'Reilly: NBC News "jazzed" over "dead Afghan kids killed in an American air strike"

[Purveyor]

During the "Talking Points Memo" segment of the June 19 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, responding to the coverage by network newscasts of the deaths of seven Afghan children in a recent air strike in eastern Afghanistan, host Bill O'Reilly said "last night, all three network newscasts reported seven Afghan children were killed in fighting between the Taliban and U.S. forces. ABC News spent 15 seconds on the story, just told you about it. CBS News, 10 seconds. But NBC News gave it a full two minutes." O'Reilly continued: "Dead Afghan kids killed in an American air strike, NBC News is jazzed. But why? You make the call." He later asserted that "we don't censor the news on The Factor; we tell you the truth about Iraq and everywhere else. But we don't help the terrorists either, and that separates us from some in the anti-war press."

Also, remarking on a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism -- which found that Fox News spent far less time covering the conflict than CNN and MSNBC -- O'Reilly said: "The liberal press has made a big deal about the fact that Fox News devotes less time to Iraq than our competitors at CNN and MSNBC. The question is what kind of coverage are you getting from them and others who show carnage without context." O'Reilly continued: "Again, 'Talking Points' asserts that showing pictures of terrorist activity, purely for the visual, helps the terrorists and doesn't advance the Iraq story." He later concluded: "But we don't help the terrorists either, and that separates us from some in the anti-war press."

A week before, on the June 12 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, O'Reilly also attacked NBC and stated: "This is ridiculous. NBC News has imploded. I was talking to an NBC News pretty high up guy yesterday, and he admits it. I'm not gonna tell you who it was, but he says, 'It's chaos.' " O'Reilly continued: "I mean, they have no standards at all over there. Everything has collapsed." O'Reilly's assertion came after he aired a clip of NBC chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell's statement during the June 12 edition of NBC's Today that "immigration reform is a critical test" for "this lame duck president." He asserted: "You can't be saying 'lame duck president.' Even if you think it, you don't say it if you're a reporter." (O'Reilly seems to have overlooked examples of Fox News' anchors and reporters referring to President Bush and former President Bill Clinton as lame ducks. For instance, during the January 1 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler said of Bush: "As a lame duck, he can afford to ask the Democrats for the immigration reforms that Republicans rejected, perhaps in exchange for Social Security reforms most Democrats say are too much like privatization.")

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200706210001?f=h_latest

[BlooInBloo]

1. O'Reilly: Making shit up. In other news, dog bites man.

[Berry Cool]

2. And as usual, Keith Olbermann's got it covered

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/20/olbermann-mocks-oreillys-serious-reporting/

[SeattleGirl]

10. Thanks, Berry! I figured C&L would post this.

Another video to add to my KO video collection!

[Cha]

3. Big mouth bo lies right outta

the shoot..there is no corporate liberal press..that's a falafel of billo's imagination.

Edit~ left out an article(a).

[Disturbed]

4. O'Liely is skirting close to calling for Censorship of US News.

I suspect that will escalate to a demand for just that!

[Cha]

8. I thought there already

was a censorship of US news..by direction of karloff rove?

The corporatemediawhores are at their beck and call..I'm sure big mouth o'liesalot would love to have nothing but catapulting the propoganda.

[SeattleGirl]

11. Absolutely, zidzi. The ONLY person Bill-o thinks shouldn't be

censored is his own self.

What a prick!

[rodeodance]

5. and he laughs all the way to the bank! That is the sick part of his existance!!

[lordsummerisle]

6. While I totally agree with the sentiment here

I'm uncomfortable with all the O'Leilly stories lately...while most of us here know where he's coming from, these media pieces on him just call attention to him and will cause more people to watch/listen to him. He thrives on negative attention, I've heard him say "I don't care what you think of me as long as you just keep watching..."

I don't have a solution, I just know what makes me sick.

[aquart]

7. Here. See what's really up with Afghanistan's kids.

<http://www.skai.gr/master_avod.php?id=49296> A friend made this for Greek TV.

[MichaelHarris]

9. Isn't Fox

the station that had the towers falling in a continuous loop? Isn't that the station that covers every brown American sneezing funny?

"Again, 'Talking Points' asserts that showing pictures of terrorist activity, purely for the visual, helps the terrorists..."

So they helped the terrorists by covering 9-11 on a daily basis. Does the terror alert level crawl on Fox also help the terrorists? Rudy must really be helping the terrorists a lot, that's all he talks about.

"...we don't help the terrorists either, and that separates us from some in the anti-war press."

Odd, it seems Fox's terror coverage is helping the terrorists by keeping Americans afraid. The Alert that creeps across the screen surely keeps Fox viewers afraid, isn't that what the bad guys want?

"carnage without context"

Well Bill-O, the context is war. The carnage is not brought to us by the liberal media, it's brought to us by a failed policy driven by a failed president. Is that why you don't want to cover it? Was Mr Murrow's coverage "carnage without context"? Was he helping the Nazis?

Michael Harris
Blackwater hasn't killed me yet, they missed.