{"id":1904,"date":"2004-06-08T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1904.html"},"modified":"2004-06-08T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T15:50:26","slug":"white-house-puts-on-media-critic-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/white-house-puts-on-media-critic-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"White House puts on ‘media critic’ hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm. Let’s contrast this<\/a>…<\/p>\n

President Bush’s national security adviser accused the Arabic-language broadcaster Al-Jazeera of ”purely inaccurate” reporting yesterday, suggesting the Qatar-based satellite station was presenting a biased account of developments in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

”I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate,” [Condoleezza] Rice said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…with this<\/a><\/p>\n

Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“It’s easy to complain about the press — I’ve been doing it for a good part of my career,” Cheney said. “It’s part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they’re more accurate in my experience, in those events that I’m personally involved in, than many of the other outlets.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is the White House really in a position to sit in judgment over which media outlets are reliable? I think not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmm. Let’s contrast this… President Bush’s national security adviser accused the Arabic-language broadcaster Al-Jazeera of ”purely inaccurate” reporting yesterday, suggesting the Qatar-based satellite station was presenting a biased account of developments in the Middle East. […] ”I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}