WH Warning: NBC Blurs Lines Between News and "Blatantly Partisan" Talk Shows

[babylonsister]

The irony of this is so rich considering the partisan hacks the Pentagon hired to spew 'news'. Related link from today on the Pentagon's 'information dominance' campaign:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3330514&mesg_id=3330514



A Warning From the White House

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: May 23, 2008


WASHINGTON – Every once in a while, when President Bush or his advisers are particularly exercised by something a reporter writes or a Democrat says, the White House blasts an e-mail to hundreds of Washington opinion-makers under the headline “Setting the Record Straight.”

This week it sent out one that raised eyebrows, suggesting the White House intends a more combative stance with the media in the twilight of the administration, as attention turns away from Mr. Bush and toward those trying to succeed him.

Under the banner of Setting the Record Straight, Ed Gillespie, counselor to the president, publicized a letter he sent to the president of NBC News, Steve Capus, accusing the network of “deceitful editing” of an interview with Mr. Bush. The White House complained that NBC had distorted Mr. Bush’s response to a question about a speech widely interpreted as an attack on Senator Barack Obama.

That was unusual enough; most disputes with reporters are settled – or at least aired out – behind the scenes. But the real aim of the lengthy missive could be found in its very last line, in which Mr. Gillespie accused NBC of blurring the lines between its news division and “blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/us/politics/23web-stolberg.html

[truedelphi]

1. I'm glad that I have saved up the first Bwhahahahahaha I've

Ever typed for this momentous occasssion!!

K & R'ed

[tularetom]

2. Billo couldn't have said it better himself

It almost sounds like "Mr Gillespie" is on the faux payroll.

Or maybe faux is on the WH payroll, eh?

[annabanana]

12. or maybe the WH is on faux's payroll. . . n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Of course, there are no 'blatantly partisan talk show hosts on Fox!

[underpants]

4. Has Brent Bozell confirmed this?

Bernard Goldberg???

[tridim]

5. Dictators just hate it when the fourth estate criticizes them.

And now we have proof.

[lisa58]

6. tooooooo bad

[Kittycat]

7. Wow, kind of like Insanity & whathisface, or Bill O'Lielly's Shows?

:crazy:

[BlueManDude]

8. They're "working the refs" and this is why Democrats always lose the media game.

So MSNBC has ONE openly lib/Dem show host and they are making a stink over it. Why don't Dems do this ?

[ladjf]

9. Has the WH complained about FOX yet?

[Birthmark]

10. WAAAAAAH!

Poor, poor White House.

[NashVegas]

11. Gosh, I Guess We'll Just Have to Get the Fairness Doctrine Back

[grasswire]

13. I don't see anything about Patrick J. Buchanan in that letter...

...from Gillespie. Odd, eh?