Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Cable News Slanting for Bush

Did you catch CNN's Bill Schneider fudging on the truth during the convention? Is there any limit to how low the media whore's will sink?

Special thanks to David Brock's Media Matters for exposing CNN's deceipt of its viewers.

Here's how Brock reported it.
''On July 26, CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider used a false and misleading description of recent poll results to portray Democratic convention delegates as more liberal than they really are.

Schneider -- who is also a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) -- falsely claimed, "A liberal consensus prevails among the Democratic delegates in Boston. Three-quarters endorse abortion on demand." [emphasis Schneider's]

But the on-screen graphic accompanying Schneider's commentary suggested he was off base. The graphic indicated Schneider was basing his comments on a recent CBS News/New York Times survey of delegates, and that 75 percent said abortion should be "generally available" -- not at all the same as available "on demand."''