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Anker-Klanker
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 Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: MRC demands apology from Newsweek for SBVPT |
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It's not the big vindications we all want, but the Media Research Center is nipping away at OLM:
http://www.mrc.org/press/2004/press20041108.asp
| Quote: | Newsweek Prints False Claim About Swift Boat Ads — Bozell Calls For Newsweek Apology
Post-Election Edition Says Ads Used a Voice-over for Kerry When Showing Him Testifying Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, But No Voice-over Was Used
ALEXANDRIA, Va. --- Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today called on Newsweek magazine to issue a public apology in its next issue for misinforming the public about television ads run by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Newsweek claims in its post-election issue: “When the Swift Boat vets made ads attacking Kerry with images from his 1971 testimony, they used a voice-over, an actor reading Kerry's words.” (The Newsweek story was written by Evan Thomas, based on reporting from Eleanor Clift, Kevin Peraino, Jonathan Darman, Peter Goldman, Holly Bailey, Tamara Lipper and Suzanne Smalley.)
“We have checked with people representing the Swift Boat Veterans and they confirm they used the actual Kerry testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in their ads. This nonsense in Newsweek about how an actor’s voice-over was used instead of the authentic Kerry tape is misinforming the public, as much of the media did during the entire campaign when it came to covering the Swift Boat Veterans. Newsweek still has it wrong and must correct the record with an apology to the Swift Boat Veterans in its next issue,” Bozell said.
“Newsweek should apologize, not just issue a ‘correction,’” added Bozell, “as it is now known that Newsweek didn’t even telephone the Swift Boat Vets to ask whether a voice-over was used. They just ran a false story without checking with the people responsible—and that is irresponsible journalism.” |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:55 am Post subject: |
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And Brent Bozell nails 'em again!  Way to go, Brent! It's starting.... give it a couple of months and the old media will be in an absolute feeding frenzy on what's left of John Kerry's political career.
I encourage everyone to sign up for the daily newsletter at www.mrc.org - it's always full of interesting things. (Though your blood pressure may rise just a tad.  )
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happyday
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Location: Omaha, NE
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | And Brent Bozell nails 'em again! Way to go, Brent! It's starting.... give it a couple of months and the old media will be in an absolute feeding frenzy on what's left of John Kerry's political career.
I encourage everyone to sign up for the daily newsletter at www.mrc.org - it's always full of interesting things. (Though your blood pressure may rise just a tad. ) |
Thanks for the link NNN, but I just can't afford any more high blood pressure meds lol. I'm a single parent with 5 kids already, which throws my bp out of whack every time one of them turns into a teenager 
Awwww, what the heck. You only live once
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Beatrice1000
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Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | | ...sign up for the daily newsletter at www.mrc.org |
THANKS! Seeing them at work actually lowers my BP!  |
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army72
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It's great to see them fight back but that is how MSM operates. They slur the message, attack little bits making the story look fake.. but they get their point across. There are people that now use that as evidence, not knowing or caring if a retraction were printed. If they have to print a retraction, it'll be between headache ads on the back page written as if it was really sorry, only to do the same thing whenever needed.
They have done this many, many times. Nothing has changed. Nor will it matter to the mudslingers. They have their ammo now. Expect the story to be used in future arguments as evidence.
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