Reply #8: ABC news

[wryter2000]

First, let me say I get my news from links I follow from DU. However, sitting with my dh and playing with my snakeys while watching the news was a family tradition that I've continued after my husband's death. I like to see what is going out over the airwaves as "mainstream" news.

With LaCouric at CBS, I decided to switch to ABC, as I can't watch GE's version of the news. (The dh and I did one night, and yoiks, it was awful!)

Anyway, I've been very pleasantly surprised. With the exception of Stephanopolous, the coverage hasn't been bad at all. I watched very carefully to see what they'd do about PT9/11, and on the whole, the coverage was negative. BenVeniste got the most face time, and they cut right to him where he was holding the 9/11 Commission report very prominently in front of his chest. The message was clear -- PT9/11 was not true to that report.

Last night, they had a substantial piece on the Canadian of middle eastern extraction who was totally innocent of any terrorism -- a point they made more than once -- who was taken to (I think) Syria where he was tortured for 10 months. Again the message was clear -- the US government is arranging for torture of innocent people. From Canada, no less.