Unpopular thread: Tweety & GIBSON contracts up in June. I say STEPANOPOULOUS better!1

[UTUSN]

Allow me to elaborate. George, I've seen him standing in for GIBSON, and he's GOOD!1


GIBSON is a wingnut.


On Sunday's Mistah KURTZ, the RADDOZ person said she was not pressured to take the Rethug line on the Iraq Attack because "Peter JENNINGS didn't believe there were WMD and he QUESTIONED us in our reporting.... "


THAT's what a real anchor does, THAT's the DIFFERENCE, has a good B.S.-meter and swings the difference!1


So, GIBSON's contract is UP, and I *say* hire George STEPANOPOULOUS!!!!!1

[MadBadger]

1. FUCK NO!!!!

Did you even see the debate in Philly? He took questions from motherfuckin Sean Hannity!

[gateley]

2. I think George S is pretty good on interviews and reporting, but

agree that his debate performance was disgusting.

He could take Gibson's job - that would be fine with me.

I like Tweety! (Preparing for incoming :scared:)

[UTUSN]

4. Well, take THIS for your incoming!!1 n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

3. that's bullshit, and she knows it. Glenn Greenwald displayed quotes from

a show in which Raddatz showered Colin Powell's egregious lie-fest with encomia as to its perfect, unassailable accuracy

wait a minute, and I'll dig it up

[Gabi Hayes]

5. you be the judge. Raddatz is one of those 'journalists' who suffers from SMD

Selective memory disorder, which Greenwald addresses in this most excellent series of dissections of the worst media in the world...sorry Keith

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3360358#3360404

DU post contains this link, which is a must read by Greenwald

http://dean.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/28/gibson/print.html

On the same show, Diane Sawyer introduced Martha Raddatz to talk about the Powell speech, and Raddatz promptly said things like this: "Good morning, Diane. Secretary Powell laid out a strong case against Saddam Hussein," and like this: "Powell said Iraq moved weapons to avoid detection. Satellite imagery, he said, shows a storage area for chemical weapons," and like this: "Powell also said evidence indicates that Iraq may have 25,000 liters of anthrax, has two of three components needed to build a nuclear bomb, and has ties to and harbors al Qaeda."

They then cut to Condoleezza Rice saying: "The Iraqis know what they need to do. And a little bit here and a little there is not going to get it done." Raddatz concluded: "Powell's presentation walked a delicate line between revealing new information and protecting methods of intelligence gathering." There was not a single syllable uttered that questioned any of this and, needless to say, no dissenting voices were heard.

But this morning, Charlie Gibson specifically points to the tough, skeptical reporting he did with regard to Powell's U.N. speech to prove what a great job the media did. Worst of all, that they think they did a good job means they'll not do anything different in the future.

[mitchtv]

6. Sounds good, but I'll still

not watch ABC news

[Upfront]

8. Nor will I.

[tularetom]

7. I kind of agree but that isn't a very high standard to set

Sephlococcus better than Gibson? Yeah but so what.

I say dig up Peter Jennings and let his corpse do the news. It would probably be better than either one of those losers.

Tweety? Keep him, fire him, whatever, I don't give a crap. The only time I see him is when I accidently tune in to Countdown a minute or two early.