Monday, August 13, 2007

Media Matters for America

Wash. Post Mag mischaracterized Obama's account of 2004 DNC invitation, then called it "disingenuous"


A Washington Post Magazine cover story on Barack Obama asserted that in his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama "portrays it as a total surprise when [Mary Beth] Cahill called to invite him to deliver the keynote" speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. However, the passage of the book to which the article referred did not portray the invitation as a "total surprise."
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Fox's Angle misrepresented NASA correction to claim 1934 is now "hottest year" on record

On Special Report, Jim Angle reported that NASA was forced "to admit it was wrong when it said that 1998 was the hottest year on record" and that NASA "now says 1934 was the hottest year, followed by 1998, then 1921." But Angle did not inform viewers that NASA's revision affected annual temperature rankings for the United States only; it had no effect on the annual global temperature rankings. Read more



Matthews to CNBC's Burnett: "You're a knockout"; "It's all right getting bad news from you"

On Hardball, Chris Matthews told CNBC anchor Erin Burnett: "[Y]ou're beautiful" and "[y]ou're a knockout," before closing their interview by saying, "It's all right getting bad news from you."
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