ABC's Inauguration Plans The blogosphere catches Big Media trying to pull another fast one.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 01/20/2005 | Jonathan V. Last

[neverdem]

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ABC's Inauguration Plans
The blogosphere catches Big Media trying to pull another fast one.
by Jonathan V. Last
01/20/2005 2:26:00 PM

OVER AT POWER LINE, John Hinderaker has found one of the most egregious bits of media bias yet recorded. (Hinderaker found the story at a smaller blog, The San-Antonio Express-News Watch.) It seems that yesterday ABC News posted a call on its website for help from readers:

Jan. 19, 2005--For a possible Inauguration Day story on ABC News, we are trying to find out if there any military funerals for Iraq war casualties scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 20. If you know of a funeral and whether the family might be willing to talk to ABC News, please fill out the form below:

(ABC took down the request, fortunately the blog Captain's Quarters copied the page first.) ABC tried to pass this off as "Honoring Fallen Heroes on Inauguration Day." But Hinderaker notes that the specificity of ABC's request gives away the game. "Note," he says, "that only the families of Iraqi war dead need apply. If a soldier died in Afghanistan, or aiding tsunami victims in Indonesia or Sri Lanka, or in a training exercise, never mind. That isn't the 'balance' ABC is looking for."

While it is shameful for ABC to even have issued such a request, simply pulling it down and trying to bury the incident in the memory hole is even more dishonest. It seems like some in the mainstream media have yet to learn from CBS's mistakes.

Jonathan V. Last is online editor of The Weekly Standard. He also runs the blog Galley Slaves.

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[Sprite518]

Further proof of a bias media.

[LaBradford22]

(sarcasm on) No way! The media's not biased! (sarcasm off)

[BCrago66]

Good job reporting the week-old news.

[Publius6961]

On a totally unrelated matter, what's up with this?

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It appears above the page on this posted article. I have never seen it bofore.

[socal_parrot]

Eerie isn't it.

[neverdem]

When I post from the Weekly Standard, it always seems to happen.

[neverdem]

Good job reporting the week-old news.

If you or someone else had posted it, I wouldn't have bothered. I happened to come across it at the NRA's site today, which they update daily.

[tx_eggman]

If you or someone else had posted it, I wouldn't have bothered. I happened to come across it at the NRA's site today, which they update daily.

You Mean Like Here
Or Here

[neverdem]

I search for specific stories to avoid duplicates.

[jmaroneps37]

Stories like this, making it to the light of day, are the reason the ratmedia can not help the rats back into power. Week old or not, this is an important story. Ya think the canadian will report it tonight? Nah! :-)

[sdpatriot]

ABC news actually DID have a soldier funeral news item on the evening of the Inguration.. i saw it. i didn't know they had actually went trolling for the story... but am not surprised. i'm sure others saw it.. ?

[IonImplantGuru]

RE: Your tagline ( Frist/ Blackwell in 2008 for a landslide: you saw it here first.)

I'll bite... who is Blackwell? The only Blackwell I've head of is the dude that puts out the 'Worst Dressed in Hollywood' list, typically post-Academy Awards.