Media Matters for America summary, August 12, 2007
 
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:04:19 -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/200708120003?src=other"><em>Wash.  Post Mag</em> mischaracterized  Obama's account of 2004 DNC invitation, then called it  "disingenuous"</a></b><br />
A 
<em>Washington Post Magazine</em> cover 
story on Barack Obama asserted 
that in his 
book 
<em>The Audacity of Hope</em>, Obama "portrays it as a total 
surprise when [Mary Beth] Cahill 
called to invite him to deliver the keynote" speech at the 2004 Democratic National 
Convention. However, 
the passage of the book to which the 
article referred did not portray the invitation 
as a "total surprise."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708120003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/global_warming?src=other">Global Warming</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708120001?src=other">Fox's Angle misrepresented NASA correction to claim 1934 is now "hottest year" on record</a></b><br />
On 
<em>Special Report</em>, Jim Angle 
reported that NASA was forced "to admit it was wrong when it said that 1998 was 
the hottest year on record" and that NASA "now says 1934 was the hottest year, 
followed by 1998, then 1921." But Angle did 
not 
inform 
viewers that 
NASA's revision affected annual temperature rankings for the United States 
only; it had no effect on the annual global temperature rankings.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708120001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/media?src=other">Media</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708120002?src=other">Matthews to  CNBC's Burnett: "You're  a knockout"; "It's  all right getting bad  news from you"</a></b><br />
On <em>Hardball</em>, Chris Matthews told 
CNBC anchor Erin 
Burnett: "[Y]ou're beautiful" and "[y]ou're a knockout," before closing their interview by saying, "It's all right getting bad news from 
you."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708120002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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