"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)
Thursday, September 14, 2006
ABC, CBS ignored Democratic call for equal time to respond to Bush 9-11 speech
In reporting on the political fallout from President Bush's campaign-style, nationally televised address on the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, ABC and CBS made no mention of the letter Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (NV) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA) sent to the networks on September 12 asking that Democrats be allotted equal time on the airwaves to respond to Bush's speech. NBC was the sole broadcast network to report on Reid and Pelosi's letter, noting, on the September 12 broadcast of Nightly News, "Democratic leaders later released a letter to the television networks demanding equal time to respond to the president's address," and similarly, on the September 13 broadcast of Today, that Democrats "are now requesting equal time." Read more
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