{"id":2582,"date":"2004-09-22T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2582.html"},"modified":"2004-09-22T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T14:55:30","slug":"peter-jennings-does-a-little-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/peter-jennings-does-a-little-fact-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jennings does a little fact checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m frequently frustrated over the media&#8217;s inability (or disinterest) in playing any kind of political fact-checking role, I figure it&#8217;s only fair to point out when someone gets it right. Especially on TV.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/node\/view\/683\">Oliver Willis<\/a> and my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patridiots.com\/000924.html\">Poppy<\/a> noted, ABC&#8217;s Peter Jennings did a straight-up piece last night, contrasting what Bush said about a John Kerry remark and what Kerry actually said. The segment demonstrated, quite clearly, that Bush&#8217;s characterization was false. The president, in other words, was lying and hoping he wouldn&#8217;t get called on it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Jennings didn&#8217;t use the &#8220;l&#8221; word, but he didn&#8217;t have to. Show people the truth &#8212; Bush&#8217;s charge, then why Bush&#8217;s charge is false &#8212; and the public will have the information they need.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver even has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/stuff\/abc-bushlie.mp4\">a video<\/a> of the ABC segment. Take a look; it&#8217;s the kind of Journalism 101 we rarely see on television network news.<\/p>\n<p><i>Post Script<\/i>: Yes, I realize it&#8217;s a shame to make a big deal about such a simple segment, but considering how far TV news has fallen in recent years, it&#8217;s only fair to reward adequate behavior with some praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m frequently frustrated over the media&#8217;s inability (or disinterest) in playing any kind of political fact-checking role, I figure it&#8217;s only fair to point out when someone gets it right. Especially on TV. As Oliver Willis and my friend Poppy noted, ABC&#8217;s Peter Jennings did a straight-up piece last night, contrasting what Bush said [&hellip;]<\/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-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}