Media Matters for America summary, August 28, 2007
 
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:03:04 -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/200708280008?src=other">Hannity is Olbermann's "Worst Person" for defending Nugent's comments</a></b><br />
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
named Fox News host Sean Hannity the "winner" of his nightly
"Worst Person in the World" segment for defending musician and
right-wing activist Ted Nugent after airing video footage of Nugent's
smears of Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Olbermann also named Fox News' Brit Hume the
"runner-up" for distorting recently
published research on global warming.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280008?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280010?src=other">JustHillary asked, "How did poor family donate $45,000 [to Clinton camp]?" but facts reported by <em>WSJ</em> tell different story</a></b><br />
An August 28 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.justhillary.com/">headline</a> on the
political website JustHillary.com read,
"Wall St. Journal on Hillary campaign mystery: How did poor family donate
$45,000?" However,
the August 28 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118826947048110677.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news">article</a> to which
JustHillary linked described the family in the following way: "Records
show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they
recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the
household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about
$49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a
homemaker. The couple&#39;s grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at
a software company to &#39;attendance
liaison&#39; at a
local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at
a mutual fund."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280010?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280014?src=other">Echoing misleading <em>NY Post</em> headline, Drudge reported that Clinton "supports national smoking ban"</a></b><br />
Linking to a <em>New
York Post</em> article, whose headline asserted, "Hillary Eyes National Cig Curb," Matt Drudge wrote
"Hillary Supports National Smoking Ban." In fact, as the <em>Post</em> article noted, "Asked whether the
feds should impose a nationwide ban, Clinton
deferred to local governments."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280014?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280009?src=other">Attacking Obama, Beck's newsletter falsely claimed arugula is not grown in Iowa</a></b><br />
After
recounting how Sen. Barack Obama reportedly asked an audience of Iowa farmers how much
Whole Foods charges for arugula, a
recent Glenn Beck email newsletter asserted that "[i]t would have been a total
home run for the Senator if it weren't for the fact that there are no Whole
Foods stores in Iowa and arugula is not even grown in the state." In
fact, arugula is grown in Iowa
and is widely available in stores throughout the state.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280009?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280005?src=other"><em>Wash.  Post</em> misleadingly  describes Clinton's position on meeting with foreign  leaders</a></b><br />
<em>The Washington Post </em>has 
recently portrayed Sen. 
Hillary Rodham Clinton 
as opposing meetings with leaders of countries hostile to the 
United 
States. In fact, Clinton has opposed <em>committing to meeting</em> with such 
leaders <em>without preconditions</em> and <em>within her first year in office</em>.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280005?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280016?src=other"><em>WSJ</em> omitted key  information in article  about  Clinton donations from "unlikely address"</a></b><br />
In an article on campaign donations to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from "an 
unlikely address," <em>The Wall Street 
Journal</em> suggested that "wealthy New York businessman" and "top 
fundraiser[]" Norman Hsu may have funneled illegal campaign contributions to 
Clinton by reimbursing members of the Paw family for contributions made to 
Clinton under their names. However, the <em>Journal</em> gave no indication it actually 
tried to get financial information indicating "how the Paw family is able to 
afford such political largess."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280016?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/ethics?src=other">Ethics</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280015?src=other">Fox News gave slim coverage to Sen. Craig  story</a></b><br />
From 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET on August 27, Fox News devoted only 3 minutes and 
47 seconds to segments discussing Sen. Larry Craig's lewd-conduct arrest. By contrast, MSNBC aired 8 minutes and 26 
seconds of coverage on the story, while CNN aired 20 minutes and 38 
seconds.

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280015?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280003?src=other">CNN's Arena reported "allegations" of political hiring at DOJ, but former official admitted doing so</a></b><br />
CNN's Kelli Arena reported that "there have
been some allegations that certain people were hired as career prosecutors
because of their political affiliation." In fact, former Justice
Department White House liaison Monica Goodling testified before Congress that
she had repeatedly considered political affiliation when she made hiring decisions
about assistant U.S.
attorneys.

<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280003?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/lgbt_issues?src=other">LGBT Issues</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280013?src=other"><em>NY  Times</em>, networks  ignored Sen. Craig's record on gay and lesbian issues</a></b><br />
In reporting on Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea on disorderly conduct charges, the 
nightly network news broadcasts and <em>The New 
York Times</em> all ignored Craig's positions on legislation concerning gay and 
lesbian rights, including voting against legislation to ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280013?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280012?src=other">CBN's David Brody described male blogger as Fred Thompson's "angry girlfriend"</a></b><br />
In an August 21 <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/216806.aspx">post</a> on his CBNnews.com blog,
titled "Fred, You&#39;re Such a Tease!," Christian Broadcasting News
senior national correspondent David Brody addressed speculation surrounding
when, or if, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) would officially announce his
presidential candidacy. After asserting that "Thompson is playing this
thing like the cool, handsome jock in high school who teased all the girls who
wanted to go out with him," Brody went on to discuss a <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/blogger-files-fec-complaint-against-thompson-2007-08-20.html">federal
complaint</a> blogger Lane Hudson filed against Thompson, accusing the former
senator of violating the Federal Election Commission&#39;s (FEC)
"testing the waters" <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/candregis.shtml">clause</a>. Brody
wrote: "Well, now Fred Thompson has an angry girlfriend. His name
(don&#39;t go there) is Lane Hudson." Brody then reproduced part of an
August 20 Associated Press <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293846,00.html">article</a> on Hudson&#39;s complaint. 
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280012?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/government_and_elections?src=other">Government and Elections</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280007?src=other"><em>Time</em>'s  Ana Marie Cox compared Congress' questioning of Gonzales to "legislative  waterboarding"</a></b><br />
On the August 27 
edition of <i>MSNBC Live</i>, <i>Time</i> magazine&#39;s Ana Marie Cox described 
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales&#39; questioning "the last time he went in 
front of Congress" as "legislative waterboarding."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/propaganda_noise_machine?src=other">Propaganda/Noise Machine</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280011?src=other"><em>GMA </em>casts Gonzales scandals as partisan: "For Democrats, it's another scalp to hang on the wall"</a></b><br />
On <em>Good Morning America</em>, correspondent David Wright asserted that
"[w]ere it not
for the scandals, [President] Bush
had hoped to make"
outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
"the first
Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court." Wright also reported that Gonzales' resignation
"is being welcomed on both sides of the aisle" because "[f]or
Democrats, it's another scalp to hang on the wall; and for Republicans, it's a
huge distraction that now goes away." In fact, several Republicans have
joined Democrats in calling for Gonzales to resign.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200708280011?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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