CNN Covers NYT's ‘Jerk’ Jab at Bush, Fox Ignores It

NewsBusters.org ^ | 8/16/2007 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

"American Morning" co-host Kiran Chetry, an alumna of Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends Weekend," gave her former colleagues at Fox a run for the money in highlighting a case of media bias. While "Fox & Friends" on Thursday morning was covering the earthquake in Peru, and featured several segments on the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis, Chetry interviewed "Wired" magazine senior editor Nick Thompson towards the end of the 7 am EDT hour on a new website that traces who is editing different entries on Wikipedia. Chetry brought up an instance in December 2005 where the words "jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk" appeared on President Bush’s Wikipedia entry, and the new website traced the entry to the IP address of a computer at the New York Times.

The key excerpt from Chetry’s interview of Thompson:

KIRAN CHETRY: Here's George W. Bush, this is our commander in chief. Has a Wikipedia page here. And there were some changes made to it. It -- suddenly the words jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk -- here you go -- ended up. You can tell just by looking, when you look at history, that it was revised on December 28, 2005. But who was behind this one?

NICK THOMPSON: We don't know exactly the individual, but it was somebody using a “New York Times” computer.

CHETRY: And what did “The New York Times” say about it?

THOMPSON: They said, well, we don't know exactly who it is. It could have been anybody in the building. Anybody using any of our computers. We can't find the individual.

CHETRY: All right. Now, we did call “The New York Times” and they said, as you said, there's no way to tell what employee was responsible.

THOMPSON: Right.

Chetry and Thompson also discussed changes Diebold, a company that makes voting machines, made to their own Wikipedia entry.

Wired Magazine’s own article on the Wikipedia-tracking website actually didn’t mention change made by "The New York Times," but instead focused on "obvious targets" like Diebold, Wal-Mart, the CIA, and Halliburton, companies and organizations that are consistently marked for criticism by left-wing groups. So, CNN’s coverage of the story was actually more balanced than that of Wired.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at Media Research Center.

[Pyro7480]

Well, it was a former Fox News employee who did this, so CNN gets half-credit. ;-)

[N. Theknow]

They said, well, we don't know exactly who it is. It could have been anybody in the building. Anybody using any of our computers. We can't find the individual.

Quick!

Someone call OJ!

The real killers have broken ino the NY Times building and are using the computers!

[MeanWestTexan]

Kiran certainly beats the ugly blond they have on F&F now. Ug.

[Red Badger]

Valerie Plame’s husband did it......

[Southack]

Just remember, reporters don’t want to reveal their “sources” (even if they fabricated a person from whole cloth) and prefer to remain anonymous when they are up to no good.

[mtbopfuyn]

Of course they couldn’t be bothered to check whose’s cubicle the computer was in or who had logged on.

[Tribune7]

Good for Kiran

[Eroteme]

They said, well, we don't know exactly who it is. It could have been anybody in the building. Anybody using any of our computers. We can't find the individual.

Baloney.

[ontap]

That would be Gretchen Carlson! Former Miss america

[hophead]

Any post of Kiran Chetry must include pictures on FR!!!

[billybudd]

Kiran Chetry is hawt.

[Tatze]

[Doctor Raoul]

Seattle Times newsroom boos Bush as does the MSNBC newsroom and here's the NYT.

When a "journalist" says there's no liberal bias, just laugh in their face.

[Doogle]

..in the interest of public health and safety, I must personally check Kiran for ticks

[RinaseaofDs]

Who is that?

She looks better than Angelina Jolie ever did, and is probably less repulsive personally.

Once it got out that Angelina was making out in public with her brother, and wore a vial of Billy Bob Thorton’s blood around her neck, that was it. Beyond nasty.

[agrace]

That is the most sickeningly funny graphic ever devised...and even funnier in this context.

[longtermmemmory]

FNC is really collapsing. I have even found myself surfing to the other news stations during particularly leftist of “oprafied comentary”

I even set my moring preset to c-span from fox and friends due to the unwachable female doggieness of the cast.

Brit Hume, Neile Cavuto and John Gibson are about all that are left with first tier anchor personalities.
(Tony Snowe I still respect and deserves mention just because he is really that good a journalist)

Everything else is being reduced to RINO breeding, Oprafied, geraldoing illegal alien, empty headed nothing I can easily watch with 5 minutes of cnn or msnbc or the alphabets.

FNC still has the others GENERALLY beat but that is like saying the horse NEAR dead is going to beat the completly dead horse.

[MeanWestTexan]

That would require investigative reporting.

Remember, this is the crew that couldn’t figure out who Valerie Plame was until Bob Novak looked her up in “Who’s Who” (seriously — real secret cover).

[Tatze]

Who is that?

Uh... Kiran Chetry.