05-20-2008, 02:22 AM
Extraordinary letter from White House Counselor Ed Gillespie to NBC News topper Steve Capus.
Accuses NBC of selective editing of weekend interview with President Bush on âappeasementâ remark and Iran.
Also asks for clarification on NBC views of âcivil warâ in Iraq, the economy, and the role of opinionmongers on MSNBC.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"The following is a letter from Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie to NBC News President Steve Capus:
Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112
Mr. Capus:
This e-mail is to formally request that NBC Nightly News and The Today Show air for their viewers President Bushâs actual answer to correspondent Richard Engelâs question about Iran policy and âappeasement,â rather than the deceptively edited version of the Presidentâs answer that was aired last night on the Nightly News and this morning on The Today Show...
NBCâs selective editing of the Presidentâs response is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that he agreed with Engelâs characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it. Furthermore, it omitted the references to al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas and ignored the clarifying point in the Presidentâs follow-up response that U.S. policy is to require Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment program before coming to the table, not that ânegotiating with Iran is pointlessâ and amounts to âappeasement.â
This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the Presidentâs responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts...
Mr. Capus, Iâm sure you donât want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ânewsâ as reported on NBC and the âopinionâ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines. I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast networkâs viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC donât hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division."Â
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How left media is manipulating election, now interview of sitting President?
Same way media always go negative on India when it comes to Pakistan.
Accuses NBC of selective editing of weekend interview with President Bush on âappeasementâ remark and Iran.
Also asks for clarification on NBC views of âcivil warâ in Iraq, the economy, and the role of opinionmongers on MSNBC.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"The following is a letter from Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie to NBC News President Steve Capus:
Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112
Mr. Capus:
This e-mail is to formally request that NBC Nightly News and The Today Show air for their viewers President Bushâs actual answer to correspondent Richard Engelâs question about Iran policy and âappeasement,â rather than the deceptively edited version of the Presidentâs answer that was aired last night on the Nightly News and this morning on The Today Show...
NBCâs selective editing of the Presidentâs response is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that he agreed with Engelâs characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it. Furthermore, it omitted the references to al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas and ignored the clarifying point in the Presidentâs follow-up response that U.S. policy is to require Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment program before coming to the table, not that ânegotiating with Iran is pointlessâ and amounts to âappeasement.â
This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the Presidentâs responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts...
Mr. Capus, Iâm sure you donât want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ânewsâ as reported on NBC and the âopinionâ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines. I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast networkâs viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC donât hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division."Â
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How left media is manipulating election, now interview of sitting President?
Same way media always go negative on India when it comes to Pakistan.