Three related articles from our friends at MediaMatters.org:
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Tucker Carlson hosted all-white panel of journalists to discuss “Obama’s blackness”
On the August 8 edition of MSNBC’s Tucker, an all-white group discussed an upcoming forum at a National Association of Black Journalists convention that will address, according to the convention program — as quoted by The Washington Post — the question Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) “cannot seem to shake — is he black enough? Is this an unfair question? What is the measure of blackness and who gets to decide?” Host Tucker Carlson asked A.B. Stoddard, associate editor of The Hill, and Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter: “What exactly do people mean when
they talk about Obama’s quote, “blackness”? … I’m not even sure what that question means. I know that it makes me uncomfortable and it strikes me as unfair, but what does it mean?” Carlson, who is white, devoted a full segment of his show — more than six minutes — to the issue of Obama’s racial identity and the effect of stereotypes on his bid for the presidency with Stoddard and Alter, two white journalists.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708090005
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Kurtz claimed he “didn’t see anyone reporting that Obama wanted to invade Pakistan”
In the August 8 edition of his column, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz noted Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) August 6 statement that he “never called for an invasion of Pakistan” in his August 1 foreign policy speech and that “the misreporting that was done needs to be cleared up.” Kurtz described Obama as “blaming the media” and responded: “I sure didn’t see anyone reporting that Obama wanted to invade Pakistan.” Kurtz continued: “I read that he would be willing to conduct raids against al-Qaeda without necessarily getting permission from Pakistan’s sovereign government.” In fact, numerous media outlets have reported that Obama, in the August 1 speech, stated that he was willing to “invade Pakistan.”
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708080009
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NY Times buried correction of false anecdote supporting “cool” Clinton-Obama relationship, leaving questions unanswered
In its August 9 edition, The New York Times issued a correction to an August 7 article by reporter Jeff Zeleny, noting that an anecdote that Zeleny had used to support his thesis that “Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have barely spoken to each other — at least in any meaningful way — for months” was false. The article, headlined “Competitors, Once Collegial, Now Seem Cool,” asserted that “after the State of the Union address, the two senators found themselves doing back-to-back interviews on CNN. Mr. Obama went first, with Mrs. Clinton pacing a few feet away. Finally, an aide escorted her completely around the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building, avoiding walking directly by Mr. Obama.” In fact, according to the correction, “Mrs. Clinton took a circuitous route past Mr. Obama not to avoid him, but to accommodate a television producer.”
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708090001
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August 9th, 2007 | Category: Election 2008, lies & mistruths, rumors, television | Comments (3)
