Dear MSNBC
What an appalling performance by Norah O'Donnell with Sen. Leahy. Is the job of your Chief Washington Correspondent to parrot the White House's press secretary? O'Donnell said, and I quote: "Tony Snow said today that 'you guys want the truth, and in this interview you're going to get the truth from Karl Rove.' What's wrong with that?"
That is shocking. As a viewer I can only take from this that O'Donnell agrees with Tony Snow. While that's obviously her right as a person, as a reporter isn't it her job to give viewers unbiased information? I can picture her saying, "Tony Snow said today that 'you guys want the truth, and in this interview you're going to get the truth from Karl Rove.' How do you respond to that?" Then we get the White House's side and Leahy's side. That's fair reporting. For O'Donnell to inject herself into the story - I don't know what to say. It's just shocking. Aside from all the reasons that many of us viewers might not believe that we're "going to get the truth from Karl Rove" under the White House's proposal - it's just awful reporting.
A short time later O'Donnell said: "...and Tony Snow said today 'I thought this was a fact-finding mission, not a ratings-finding mission' - that you're trying to create a courtroom atmosphere."
That's just unbelievable. Again, aside from parroting - in a tone and in the wording of agreement - the WH press secretary, which you have to admit is just flatly wrong for a reporter to do, O'Donnell here does worse. A reporter could and should with Snow's statement point out the glaringly obvious without a bit of bias: that a "courtroom atmosphere" is, when you think about it for about a millisecond, a pretty darn good place for a "fact-finding mission." What exactly about speaking under oath goes against finding facts? Doesn't it actually improve the chances that you're going to get the truth? It of course does.
Again: appalling. Terrible, and appaling. [Note to self: That's "appalling," dumbass]
Video of the clip here.
Friday, March 23, 2007
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2 comments:
Hey, MSNBC?
You report with Ms. O'Donnell that Barack Obama came up with the
watchdog component of the bailout package...and then you reported that
John McCain is saying that now. Dishonest. John McCain mentioned
this in his rallies in direct response...it is only Obama that has
come out today with his "economic policy" that calls for regulation.
Why are you not reporting on Chris Todd and his failure to watch as
the Banking Chairman?
You really can't believe all that BS you spew about Bro-Bama. He's a manufactured Rock Star created by the lame stream media, yourself included. He was packaged, presented and sold as some Messiah.
Give us a break!!!!
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