{"id":11493,"date":"2007-07-17T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11493.html"},"modified":"2007-07-17T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T20:30:28","slug":"reason-1684351-why-i-do-not-watch-television-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/reason-1684351-why-i-do-not-watch-television-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #1,684,351 why I do not watch television news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200707170005?f=h_latest\">Wow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the July 17 edition of ABC&#8217;s Good Morning America, co-anchor Diane Sawyer falsely claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) &#8220;vows to filibuster, talking all night to close out all topics besides a vote on Iraqi troop withdrawals.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, on the July 16 edition of Fox News&#8217; Special Report with Brit Hume, Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes asserted that Reid is &#8220;filibustering his own bill.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(bangs head on desk)<\/p>\n<p>Josh Marshall has been <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/015460.php\">documenting<\/a> just how irresponsible the media has been in neglecting to report on GOP filibusters, leading to widespread confusion as to why Congress isn&#8217;t passing legislation. Now, once the media finally brings itself to start introducing the word to the public, major news outlets <i>get it backwards<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I can almost understand Barnes screwing this up; he has to earn dog biscuits from Karl Rove somehow. But Diane Sawyer has been a professional political correspondent in DC <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diane_Sawyer\">since 1978<\/a>. Before that, she worked in two Republican White Houses. She must know what a filibuster is, and she must realize that the Senate Democratic leadership hopes to <i>defeat<\/i> a filibuster, not engage in one.<\/p>\n<p>I get frustrated at times with the public&#8217;s lack of political knowledge, but here&#8217;s an instance in which people watching the news on TV will know <i>less<\/i> than they would have known staring at a blank screen.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the point behind tonight&#8217;s efforts in the Senate is to bring greater awareness to Republicans&#8217; tactics and GOP obstructionism, particularly on Iraq policy. It looks like there are some reporters who stand to learn a few things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. During the July 17 edition of ABC&#8217;s Good Morning America, co-anchor Diane Sawyer falsely claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) &#8220;vows to filibuster, talking all night to close out all topics besides a vote on Iraqi troop withdrawals.&#8221; [&#8230;] Additionally, on the July 16 edition of Fox News&#8217; Special Report with Brit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}