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ABC News Discourages the Wearing of American Flag Pins by Reporters
Truth Or Fiction ^ | 04/19/02

Posted on 09/13/2008 11:56:14 AM PDT by george76

The terrorist attacks on America of September 11, 2001 resulted in a wave of patriotism that had not been seen in decades. The shared enthusiasm for the country and the flag were strong and widespread.

It created difficulties for reporters, however, who try to professionally earn and keep people's trust by avoiding personal partisan displays while reporting the news.

It was not only ABC but many other media outlets who struggled with trying to preserve their image as journalists

(Excerpt) Read more at truthorfiction.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; americanflags; enemedia; flag; flagpins; flags; media
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1 posted on 09/13/2008 11:56:14 AM PDT by george76
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To: jazusamo; SunkenCiv; Milhous

ABC News Bans Flag Lapel Pins

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/noflags.asp


2 posted on 09/13/2008 11:57:25 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Hey, it’s not right to take sides between the America and terrorists. That is the new ‘patriotism’.


3 posted on 09/13/2008 11:58:47 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: george76

Sounds like they’re as bad as the oinker.


4 posted on 09/13/2008 12:00:40 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.download.com/gloriajane)
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To: george76

“It created difficulties for reporters, however, who try to professionally earn and keep people’s trust by avoiding personal partisan displays while reporting the news.”

Who are they trying to kid??


5 posted on 09/13/2008 12:01:38 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: Always Right; Maceman; Grampa Dave; Candor7; river rat

Barbara Walters “...it may confuse the audience.”


6 posted on 09/13/2008 12:03:26 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Understandable. It creates an IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) problem for them.


7 posted on 09/13/2008 12:04:23 PM PDT by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: george76

Are they going to change the name as well, or am I the only one that remembers that ABC stands for the American Broadcast Channel????


8 posted on 09/13/2008 12:08:15 PM PDT by usmcobra (A vote for McCain & Palin is a vote against Obama bin Biden)
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To: george76

Gibson = Olberman = Matthews


9 posted on 09/13/2008 12:09:46 PM PDT by Son House (Palin, Has The Left Press Wailing! [MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, New York Times,...])
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To: george76
It created difficulties for reporters, however, who try to professionally earn and keep people's trust by avoiding personal partisan displays while reporting the news.

Since when is wearing an American flag, if you are an American, wrong? Why shouldn't American journalists(spit)wear American flags. Just because they are journalists(spit)doesn't mean they give up their citizenship rights, or does it? Does this mean none of the journalists(spit)will vote in the upcoming and other future elections in order not to appear partisan? Does this mean they will no longer be in the tank for Democrats?

They don't really stand by their creed do they except for the part about hating America, that they do very well.

10 posted on 09/13/2008 12:10:49 PM PDT by calex59
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“ABC News Discourages the Wearing of American Flag Pins by Reporters”

Wise decision by ABC News. After all, terrorist supporters should not wear American flag lapel pins.


11 posted on 09/13/2008 12:15:13 PM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: george76

This FReeper discourages any other FReeper from watching ABC, or supporting an ABC sponsor.

This FReeper encourages any other FReeper to write letters protesting their buying time on ABC to those sponsors.


13 posted on 09/13/2008 12:18:28 PM PDT by Paperdoll (Duncan Hunter for Secretary of Defense!)
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To: george76

I see.


14 posted on 09/13/2008 12:19:51 PM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: george76

All the benefits of operating in/from America, with none of the costs.

Handy!


15 posted on 09/13/2008 12:20:30 PM PDT by ROTB (Our Constitution [is] for a [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate [for] any other. -John Adams)
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To: george76
Shakespeare didn't get it quite right...

It should have been:

"The first thing we do, is kill all the lawyers and Leftist journalists"

16 posted on 09/13/2008 12:21:55 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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WTF?! Damn the unpatriotic bastards.

My toleration level is busted!

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17 posted on 09/13/2008 12:24:21 PM PDT by polymuser (Taxpayers voting for Obama are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.)
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To: george76

Well, if they wear the pin, it puts down their boy wonder, B. Hussein...can’t upstage the messiah, ya know.


18 posted on 09/13/2008 12:25:24 PM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is communism, by the drink. O'Rourke)
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To: george76

Got news for these dirtbags, our Constitution and this great country we live in protects the right for them to report the truth, which by the way, many of them are guilty of not doing.


19 posted on 09/13/2008 12:30:26 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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“Barbara Walters “...it may confuse the audience.”

She’s got a point. When the overriding theme is “why we should hate America”, wearing a flag pin would send a mixed message, unless they wore them upside down. I agree that for a MSM journalist to display an American flag is a contradiction; they would be more consistent if they wore a hammer and sicle, or a red crescent.


20 posted on 09/13/2008 12:32:57 PM PDT by Spok (The Sinopian Sage)
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