Media Matters for America summary, August 05, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:03:03 -0400


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<p>Here are today's news items from <i>Media Matters for America</i>, 
click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story.</p>
<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/2008_elections?src=other">2008 Elections</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708050002?src=other"><em>Wash. Post</em> reported on Giuliani's health plan, but not how he would pay for it</a></b><br />
In an August 4 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080302132.html">article</a>
by staff writers Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael D. Shear about the health care
reform plans of several presidential candidates, <i>The Washington Post</i>
noted that "Democrats, particularly Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and former
senator John Edwards (N.C.), are calling for higher taxes for people who make
more than $250,000 a year" to pay for their health care plans. The <i>Post</i> went on to discuss former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani&#39;s (R) recently released health care proposal,
saying that it would be "less costly and would cover fewer people,"
than Obama&#39;s and Edwards&#39; plans. However, the <i>Post</i> did not report -- and gave no
indication it had attempted to determine -- how Giuliani plans to fund his
proposal. 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708050002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/war_in_iraq?src=other">War in Iraq</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708050001?src=other"><em>Fox News Sunday</em> is latest program to call Iraq invasion proponents "critics" of the war</a></b><br />
During an August 5 interview on Fox Broadcasting Co.&#39;s
<i>Fox News Sunday</i> with Brookings
Institution <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/scholars.htm">scholars</a> Michael O&#39;Hanlon and
Kenneth Pollack, authors of a July 30 <i>New
York Times</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/opinion/30pollack.html?ex=1343448000&amp;en=33fd6c98de2a6409&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">op-ed</a>
that argued in favor of continuing the Bush administration&#39;s Iraq war
escalation "at least into 2008," host Chris Wallace introduced
O&#39;Hanlon and Pollack as "two critics of the way the Bush
administration has conducted the war."
But, as <i>Media Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200707300007?src=other">has</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200707310008?src=other">noted</a>, both
were influential proponents of the Iraq war before the invasion, and O&#39;Hanlon
wrote a <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201950.html">column</a> in support of President Bush&#39;s troop
escalation, as <i>Media Matters</i> has
also <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200707310008?src=other">documented</a>. 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708050001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708050003?src=other">CNN's on-screen caption during <em>Lou Dobbs Tonight</em>: "Obtuse Obama"</a></b><br />
On the August 3 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/03/ldt.01.html">edition</a>
of CNN&#39;s <i>Lou Dobbs Tonight</i>,
the on-screen text preceding CNN senior political analyst Bill
Schneider&#39;s report on recent comments by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) read:
"Obtuse Obama." During the report itself, the on-screen text read:
"Obtuse Obama: What Does He Mean?"
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708050003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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