September 17, 2005

AS THE CROUPIER APPROACHES

Blair ‘shocked’ over BBC Katrina coverage (Joshua Chaffin and Aline van Duyn, ft.com, 9/17/05)

Tony Blair was shocked by the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, describing it as “full of hatred of America”, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, revealed on Friday night.
If the coverage had been anti-German, would he have shut the BBC down?

Posted by David Cohen at September 17, 2005 2:44 PM
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Shocked? Why did he say nothing up to now?

Maybe he was shocked and awed!

Posted by: obc at September 17, 2005 4:31 PM

Even the BBC has been corrupted by American media influence.

Posted by: oj at September 17, 2005 5:36 PM

BBC didn't/doesn't need any influence from the American MSM. It's probably chock full of Arabists. They despise us.

Posted by: Genecis at September 17, 2005 8:29 PM

Found this on Matt Duffy's blog through Instapundit. We taxpayers pay NPR to broadcast BBC anti-Americanism and its own brand as well. It a form of Goebelism.

Friday, September 16, 2005

NPR: Taking the time to frame it right
Instapundit published a great roundup last night of reaction to the president's speech from New Orleans. One of the links noted that ABC News was surprised after the speech to find no evacuees in the Astrodome who disapproved of the president's message. Most respondents said they found Bush to be heartwarming and uplifting.

This morning I listened attentively to NPR to hear their coverage of the speech and its reaction. The results were not surprising. Bush's outline for rebuilding the Gulf Coast was given a couple of minutes, and then four reactions from New Orleans evacuees were offered. Every one of them was negative (paraphrasing): "Bush doesn't understand us," "I don't believe the money will be spent correctly," or "It's just a lot of talk."

What's the difference between the ABC News coverage and NPR's this morning? Simple. Because ABC was broadcasting live, they didn't have the ability to present the news according to their frame. NPR, having 12 hours with which to work, managed to present the speech from the proper perspective: Bush sucks.

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posted by Matt J. Duffy at 8:42 AM

http://fearlesscritic.blogspot.com/2005/09/npr-taking-time-to-frame-it-right.html

Posted by: Genecis at September 18, 2005 9:08 AM
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