Media Matters for America summary, September 17, 2007
 
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 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/200709180001?src=other">Mark  Levin reports  role in Giuliani  attack on Clinton</a></b><br />
On the September 14 
edition of his <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200610/ai_n17193209" title="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200610/ai_n17193209">nationally</a> syndicated talk show, 
conservative radio host Mark Levin took credit for a new <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L63Ff_mGzs" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L63Ff_mGzs">advertisement</a> by Republican 
presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani&#39;s campaign attacking Sen. Hillary Rodham 
Clinton (D-NY). Levin said that he met with Giuliani on September 11 at Fox News 
host Sean Hannity&#39;s <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.hannityfreedomconcert.com/" title="http://www.hannityfreedomconcert.com/">2007 Freedom 
Concert</a> and suggested that the former New York mayor link 
Clinton with the liberal group <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.moveon.org/" title="http://www.moveon.org/">MoveOn.org</a> and demand that she and other 
Democratic presidential candidates denounce the group&#39;s September 10 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/https://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html?src=other" title="https://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html">advertisement</a> in <i>The New 
York Times</i> criticizing Gen. 
David Petraeus. As <i>Media Matters for 
America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//items/200709160001?src=other" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709160001">documented</a>, Giuliani&#39;s ad misrepresented 
Clinton&#39;s position on the 2002 congressional 
resolution authorizing the president to use force in Iraq.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709180001?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170007?src=other">CNN displayed  Giuliani attack ad against Clinton, while reporting on Cheney criticism of  MoveOn ad</a></b><br />
On the September 17 edition of 
<i>CNN Newsroom</i>, anchor Betty Nguyen 
reported that Vice President Dick Cheney "weigh[ed] in" on a newspaper 
advertisement that the liberal group MoveOn.org placed in <i>The New York Times</i> on September 10, 
titled, "<a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html
http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html">General 
Petraeus or General Betray Us?</a>" Although Nguyen&#39;s remarks were limited to 
controversy surrounding the ad, including Cheney&#39;s criticism of it, CNN did not 
display the original MoveOn ad during Nguyen&#39;s report. Instead, for 10 seconds, 
CNN showed the top portion of a full-page <a href="http://mediamatters.org/https://www.joinrudy2008.com/contribute/index/times?src=other" title="https://www.joinrudy2008.com/contribute/index/times">ad</a> Republican 
presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani placed in the <i>Times</i> on September 14 accusing Sen. 
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) of executing a "character attack" on Gen. David 
Petraeus, Commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, and reprinted a smaller 
version of the MoveOn ad next to a quote from Clinton. Despite CNN&#39;s showing the Giuliani ad 
for 10 seconds, neither Giuliani nor Clinton was mentioned in the actual 
report.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170007?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170005?src=other"><em>Newsday</em>  repeated misleading claim from 2006 <em>NY  Times</em> article about Clinton's contributions from "health care  industry"</a></b><br />
A <em>Newsday</em> article on Sen. Hillary 
Clinton's health care reform proposal repeated an assertion made in a 2006 
<em>New York Times</em> article that the 
health care "industry contributed more than $850,000 to her re-election 
campaign, the second highest level of contributions to any senator." But 
<em>Newsday</em> did not note that the 
number includes donations from individual health care 
professionals, such as nurses and 
doctors, and neither newspaper reported that if only health care PAC donations 
were considered -- that is, donations from the actual health care "industry" -- 
Clinton drops 
off the list of top 25 congressional 
recipients of health 
care industry money entirely.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170005?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709180002?src=other">CNN aired Romney  attack on Clinton health care plan without noting his  reversal</a></b><br />
During a report on Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care proposal, CNN's Betty 
Nguyen aired Mitt Romney's attack on the plan, but claimed that, "like Clinton, 
he'd mandate health insurance." But in announcing his national health reform plan in August, Romney declined to 
support mandates in 
what was 
reportedly a "significant[]" departure "from the universal health care measure 
that he helped forge as governor of Massachusetts."

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709180002?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/200709170006?src=other">Kurtz  responds to criticism of claim that Fox is "entitled" to  misinform</a></b><br />
In a September 17 
washingtonpost.com "Media Backtalk" <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/09/14/DI2007091401597.html" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/09/14/DI2007091401597.html">online discussion</a>, <i>Washington Post</i> media critic and CNN 
<i>Reliable Sources</i> host Howard Kurtz responded to a question about 
his 
prior 
statement that Fox 
News is "entitled" to be a "cheerleader for the Bush administration" and to 
"misinform[] our society" by asserting that "if a network wants to be a cheerleader for the 
administration -- and I&#39;m not saying Fox [News] is -- it has that right under 
the First Amendment."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170006?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170004?src=other"><em>NY  Times</em>:  Schumer's praise of Mukasey shows Dems have "little appetite for fight" -- but  he was Schumer's suggestion</a></b><br />
A <em>New York Times </em>article on 
President Bush's decision to nominate Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general 
reported that Sen. Charles Schumer "issued a statement on Sunday evening 
praising Mr. Mukasey," which it called "a suggestion that Democrats, who are 
already challenging Mr. Bush over the war in Iraq, have little appetite for 
another big fight." In fact, Schumer had previously named 
Mukasey as one of three potential attorney 
general nominees whose selection would likely be approved by a 
Democratic-controlled Senate, and Senate Democrats made clear that they were 
prepared to block confirmation of another potential nominee, Theodore 
Olson.
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170004?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>

<h1><a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/health_care?src=other">Health Care</a></h1>
<p><b><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170003?src=other">ABCNews.com  uncritically quoted Romney's attack on Clinton health plan</a></b><br />
An ABCNews.com article 
quoted Mitt Romney attacking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care policy, but did not note that Romney was attacking a plan 
that he had not yet 
seen, 
nor that as 
governor of Massachusetts, Romney endorsed a law requiring residents to 
purchase health insurance.

<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170003?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/200709170002?src=other">Couric  described soldiers'  war-zone deaths as "ironic[]"</a></b><br />
During the September 13 edition of 
the <i>CBS Evening News</i>, anchor Katie Couric 
stated that the 
September 10 deaths of Staff Sgt. Yance Gray and Sgt. Omar Mora -- two of the 
seven U.S. Army soldiers serving in Iraq who co-authored an August 19 
<i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/opinion/19jayamaha.html?n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Contributors&amp;pagewanted=all" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=other&http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/opinion/19jayamaha.html?n=Top/Opinion/Editorials and Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Contributors&amp;pagewanted=all">op-ed</a> that expressed skepticism 
about security gains in 
Iraq -- was 
"ironic[]." Couric 
said: "The group wrote 
that for Iraqis, quote, &#39;engaging in the banalities of life has become a 
death-defying act.&#39; Now, ironically, Gray and Mora were killed along with five 
other soldiers not in combat, but when their cargo truck overturned during a 
routine trip in western 
Baghdad."
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200709170002?src=other" class="read">Read more</a></p>




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