Judy Woodruff decries journalism crisis (from Spring 2000)

[KansDem]

http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/dpn/spring00/woodruff.html

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Oh, Judy, you ARE full of yourself! Let’s look at a little of that “journalism crisis…”

The media had an obligation to report the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Woodruff said.The story did, after all, involve the most powerful man in the world possibly losing his job. But, she questioned the extent of the coverage and the consequences for invasion of privacy. By maximizing the scintillating details, she asked, didn't the press "forever lower the bar for covering the private lives of public figures?"
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/dpn/spring00/woodruff.html
But I suppose since George W. Bush will never lose his job, it is unecessary to report his scandals...


Bush’s campaign manager Ken Mehlman told CNN’s Judy Woodruff on March 12 that “Senator Kerry . . . supported 350 tax increases over the course of his career.” And again on March 16 Mehlman told CNN’s Candy Crowley: “This is a senator who has voted 350 times to raise taxes during the course of his career.” Commerce Secretary Don Evans also said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on March 10 that Kerry “has voted to increase taxes some 350 times.” And both Fox News and MSNBC quoted Bush’s campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt as saying March 11: "John Kerry has voted for higher taxes 350 times and his numbers for new spending don't add up."
http://www.factcheck.org/article159.html

Example: Interviewing George McGovern on July 28, CNN's Judy Woodruff said "Well, they say he's got the most liberal record in the U.S. Senate." But Woodruff not only didn't bother to tell her viewers that the Republicans who say this are lying, she used the GOP lie to question her guest, as though it had some basis in reality.
http://dks.thing.net/MediaMattersAug13.html

8.10.04 – On the August 5 edition of CNN's Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics, CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider repeated commentary from "one conservative website" but never said the website's name: NewsMax.com. In his report on the parallels between the recently released remake of The Manchurian Candidate and present-day politics, Schneider perpetuated -- without offering refutation -- the suggestion that Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) was the inspiration for the "villain" character, played by Meryl Streep. Yet Streep told The New York Times that she based the character of Eleanor Shaw on former Bush adviser Karen Hughes, Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), conservative pundit Ann Coulter, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. During his report, Schneider, who is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, relayed commentary from NewsMax.com's "The Left Coast Report" by James Hirsen; Schneider also suggested Senator Clinton is a "diabolical, cold, manipulative member of the U.S. Senate." (MM)
http://quinnell.us/politics/media.html

Judy Woodruff
Well, if you didn't already have the evidence, here's proof that CNN really are mere whores for the Bush administration. According to the Associated Press, more than 1,000 protesters showed up to demonstrate against George W. Bush when he appeared in Portland, OR, last week. There were scuffles and arrests when some of the protesters broke through barricades, tear gas was fired, and the whole thing was quite a mess. So how did Judy Woodruff report this incident? After spouting off for a while on Bush's California agenda and his support for Bill Simon, Woodruff told the nation that "according to our White House sources, this is the same small group of protesters who follow the president around the country." And that, ladies and gentlemen, was that. According to our White House Sources? Is that what passes for journalism these days? Just wait for the White House to hand you today's spin, and then read it word for word on the air? Absolutely despicable.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/02/81.html

A whole lot more from the Queen of Ethical Journalism. Just Google “Judy Woodruff” and ANY scandal from the Bush Administration or Bush Campaign for a sampling of a REAL crisis in journalism.

And from the first link:
"Without our credibility, we are nothing,"
Well Judy, you got that half-right!

[ProfessorPlum]

1. Whore, thy name is Woodruff

The hypocrisy makes it just that more delicious. Thanks for ruining our country, you presstitute!

[ooglymoogly]

2. i get sick watching that bunch of treasonous bastrds.

blithely tossing this country into the crapper, so i don't. who the hell wants to puke all over everything. cnn is just a bunch of repuke circle jerks. except for james carvel who you'll notice isn't on very often and my bet is that it is because of pressure that they even have him on at all.

[KarenS]

3. I am not sure why, but the Repug Women make me angrier

than the men.

Woodruff, Zahn, Hutchins, Matalin, Ingalls, Coulter, Hughes, Miz Laura, Marilyn Musgrave (my 'representative' in Congress)

arrrrrggghhhhhh

I will not watch any of them.

[GRLMGC]

4. The men piss me off too

I wanna punch them all in the face equally. To me though, it seems like the men are bigger moronic assholes and the women are purely assholes. Either way, though, they're assholes.