NBC news smearing Sheehan?

[montana500]

Using Anne Coulter as a source? Editing to make Cindy look bad?

Shame on NBC news.


msnbc.com

"protestors move nearer Bush's ranch" click "video" next to this story.

[Sgent]

1. I saw the bit

and to be honest I didn't think it was a terrible smear. Ann Coulter was quoted saying something relatively innocous.

Instead of being news about crawford, it was presented as a pro-war, anti-war thing, and they presented ppl from both sides, including Cindy and a Democratic strategist, who did a good job defending themselves.

I wasn't happy with it, but it wasn't the worst piece I've seen MSM do either.

[flordehinojos]

2. it hasn't just been nbc.

although not on the caliber of using ann coulter CNN's anderson couper and dana bash engaged in some almost not perceptible bashing of cindy sheehan last night.

they are all doing it.

shame on them!

[AtomicKitten]

3. Let the media line up.

This is a people's revolt. I invite all entities to take sides in this issue and then all will be laid bare. The revolution has begun. And it began with one grieving mother.

[magellan]

4. They're very adversarial

That's my thought watching the corporate news do their stories on Cindy. Just like BushCo, their attitude is adversarial and dismissive.

[sendero]

5. I really believe..

... that the MSM is steadily working towards making itself irrelevant, not just to people like us for whom they already are, but for more and more Americans.

The farther from demonstrable, knowable, known reality their spin veers, the more people realize that they are not remotely interested in presenting a balanced picture and the more they are tuned out.

Sure, the 30% idiot-contingent is happy to hear them smear a grieving mother, but I suspect the average American is not really buying the smears.

It is one thing to smear a political opponent, we're all used to that. It is another to do what they are doing, and there will, eventually, be a price to be paid.

[deutsey]

6. Well, remember that NBC is owned by GE, which is a military contractor

You won't seem much sympathetic (or even balanced) journalism on anti-war views.

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. NBC is corrupt as are the other

I agree with the poster above. People are starting to figure it out more and more.