{"id":5658,"date":"2005-10-27T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2005-10-27T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:54:11","slug":"making-up-for-lost-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/making-up-for-lost-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Making up for lost time"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least for the last week or so, the entire mainstream media, including television, seems to have finally recognized the significance of the Plame scandal. But as Eric Boehlert noted<\/a>, it’s a long time in coming.<\/p>\n

Based on a search of transcritps via the Nexis database, since Sept 28, 2003, here are how many episodes of “60 Minutes” and the now-defunct “60 Minutes II” aired: Approx. 180. Here’s how many “60 Minutes” and “60 Minutes II” segments examined the Plame case: 0. <\/p>\n

Over at NBC, here’s how many episodes of “Dateline” have aired: Approx. 100. Here’s how many reported segments examined the Plame case: 0. A similar story for ABC’s “Primetime Live.” Number of episodes since Sept. 28, 2003: Approx. 100. Number of Plame reports: 0. <\/p>\n

And for ABC’s “Nightline,” considered to be a harder news show than either “Primetime” or “Dateline” and which aired every weeknight during the two-year span of the Plame saga, here’s the number of programs broadcast: Approx. 500. Here, according to Nexis, is how many times “Nightline” addressed the criminal investigation that reached into the highest levels of the White House: 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t done the research (yet), but I have a hunch that 60 Minutes, Dateline, and Nightline pursued Clinton-related scandals with a little more gusto.<\/p>\n

To their credit, the networks seem to have slowly come to their senses. I took a look<\/a> at the major network’s evening newscasts (ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News) a couple of weeks ago and found, despite the fact that the political establishment had already become obsessed with the story, that the “Big Three” broadcasts were blowing off the scandal completely.<\/p>\n

It’s clearly improved since then. On Tuesday night, for example, World News Tonight and CBS Evening News each ran a segment on the controversy, towards the end of their broadcasts. NBC Nightly News, to its credit, ran two items, including one on Fitzgerald. Last night, World News Tonight did a segment in the middle, while CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News did two each. CBS Evening News even made the scandal its lead story of the night.<\/p>\n

It’s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least for the last week or so, the entire mainstream media, including television, seems to have finally recognized the significance of the Plame scandal. But as Eric Boehlert noted, it’s a long time in coming. Based on a search of transcritps via the Nexis database, since Sept 28, 2003, here are how many episodes […]<\/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-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","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=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}