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------ Original Message -------- Subject: Progress Report: Blaming the Victim Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:51:28 -0500 (EST) From: American Progress Action Fund <progress@americanprogressaction.org> Reply-To: progress@americanprogressaction.org To: xxxx
MEDIA -- MEDIA IGNORE ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY: Reporters and news analysts have "repeatedly commented on the Democratic Party's purported lack of a clear plan or concrete set of alternatives on issues ranging from Social Security to the war in Iraq." Yet, after a broad alternative national security strategy was announced Wednesday, the media's interest in such plans seemed to vanish. According to Media Matters, CNN "largely ignored the news," devoting "an hour and a half of uninterrupted coverage to a speech by President Bush on Iraq, his third in two weeks," compared to two minutes for the plan introduced by House and Senate Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV). The New York Times failed to include a single story on the strategy, despite printing quotes attacking the document on Tuesday before it was released. Neither the USA Today nor the Los Angeles Times ran news reports on it yesterday either.
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