Media Bias Outrage of the Week - Then and Now: A Study in Hypocrisy at ABC News

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) ^ | 01/20/2003 | Peacerose

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Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) is the Free Republic Network media bias chapter. You are invited to visit our web site at www.fairpress.org.

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Flag!

[Howlin]

"An anti-war group called 'MoveOn.org' that's organized primarily over the Internet

Baloney! They are BEHIND Hillary Clinton!

[Peacerose]

I'm sure you're right. A large part of their web site is devoted to fund raising.

[metesky]

And of course it's not mentioned that the Lying scumbag DemonRat that ran the original ad against Goldwater was elected president and immediately plunged the country deeper into the Vietnam War.

[Howlin]

Tell the truth? Aren't you the dreamer!

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Two comments on their way to ABC scumbags.

[Howlin]

I know I'm right. Some of us "ladies" did some research on them way back when.

kcvl will be along to post the information, I'm sure.

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Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)

[Peacerose]

No wonder I left there with that 'creeped-out' feeling!

kcvl!!! Paging kcvl!!!

[Digger]

Why doesn't GW find a way to put this un-American idiot (Jennings) in JAIL?? Why don't we let these dissenters just parade in there anti-American parades & round them up BUT send them to Cuba or Afganistan to live in their jails. When are ALL of us going to boycott all movies & sponsors of this "hate America" news casts of ABC. etc. WHEN?? (BTW I have NOT gone or rented a movie in 13 yrs - not one cent will they ever get from me)

[kcvl]

Joan Blades is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to finding and promoting common-ground solutions to public policy issues. Although only launched September 22 of this year, MoveOn.org has garnered 300,000 petition signers, 3000 active volunteers, and generated more than 1 million communications to Congress. Going beyond "virtual" action, moveon.org organized events in 219 congressional offices in 44 states on October 29th, and a get-out-the-vote drive that reached 4 million people on the day before the election.

Ms. Blades is a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems is best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. She is also the co-founder of Cavort Learning Systems, an Internet education startup.

Prior to her work in consumer software, Ms. Blades taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, wrote a book on Divorce Mediation published by Prentice Hall, and practiced mediation. She is a non-active member of the California and Alaska bar associations. Ms. Blades is also an artist, with works published on greeting cards and software packaging.

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Wes Boyd is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to finding and promoting common-ground solutions to public policy issues. Although only launched September 22 of this year, MoveOn.org has garnered 300,000 petition signers, 3000 active volunteers, and generated more than 1 million communications to Congress. Going beyond "virtual" action, moveon.org organized events in 219 congressional offices in 44 states on October 29th, and a get-out-the-vote drive that reached 4 million people on the day before the election

Mr. Boyd is a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems is best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. He is also the co-founder of Cavort Learning Systems, an Internet education startup.

In the 1980s, prior to his work in consumer software, Mr. Boyd authored software for blind and visually impaired users allowing full access to Macintosh computers, for which he received the ComputerWorld-Smithsonian award for technical innovation. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Boyd served at the University of California as a senior staff programmer on research projects.

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Berkeley was bought out by Sierra - formerly Sierra On-Line -


05:00 AM Apr. 02, 1997 PT

Berkeley Systems Inc.'s dream of going public has ended in acquisition. The wacky creator of the irreverent trivia game You Don't Know Jack and the popular After Dark screensavers has been snapped up by a mega-merchandiser of travel and cars - and a little software.

CUC International, which told Wired News on Tuesday that it had acquired Berkeley but has not yet announced the deal, saw US$1.94 billion in revenues in 1996 from its core business in shopping clubs. CUC charges dues to members who participate in its discount merchandising programs like Travelers Advantage and Net Market

[Howlin]

I knew she would know!

She is absolutely THE best researcher on the internet!

[Howlin]

Why are they ALL so damn homely?

[kcvl]

LOL! Hillary's group of women all look that way. I guess it's all that "intellectual" stuff.

April 30, 1999, 5:00 PM PT

MoveOn.org, the Web site that made news last year when it drew some 450,000 signatures to an online petition calling for Congress to "censure President Clinton and move on," on Friday announced a new online lobbying initiative: a gun control petition.

In the aftermath of the school shootings in Littleton, Colo., MoveOn.org co-founder Wes Boyd said the site's "Gun Safety First" petition pressures Congress to regulate guns for safety like other consumer products, institute child safety standards for gun manufacturers and force gun show operators to check buyers' backgrounds.

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Show Me The Money

MOVING ON UP. MoveOn is keeping its vow to target federal legislators who went after President Clinton's impeachment with its "We will remember" campaign. In the days before the June 30 FEC reporting deadline, the advocacy group solicited contributions to five candidates and raised an unprecedented $250,000 in five days through its Web site. Some 92 percent of contributions were less than $50, according to co-founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. "Because (online fund-raising) costs are so low, we can support low dollar amount contributions from the broadest group of ordinary citizens and actually give the contributions to candidates and not the post office. It opens a whole new source of support for candidates from ordinary people," Boyd said. Candidates who received funds are challenging incumbents who supported impeachment. In its short lifetime (the site was started last fall), some 500,000 Internet users have signed MoveOn petitions and pledged $13.4 million in support. The group has logged 750,000 volunteer hours for election of candidates in 2000.

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"Frankly, we've been blown away by the response," said Wes Boyd, also a co-founder of Berkeley Systems. "We spent $89.95 on a Web site, and sent out a few dozen e-mails. And now, a week later, we've got 100,000 signatures. However, we are a 100 percent volunteer effort. So, if we are truly going to reach our goal of 1 million signatures, it's essential that campaign supporters continue to spread the word."

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WASHINGTON -- When Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, husband-and-wife software developers in Silicon Valley, set out on the Internet to protest the congressional impeachment process last fall, they had no idea what they were unleashing.

For Blades and Boyd, their foray into e-politics began with a sense that Congress was ignoring public opinion as it investigated Clinton's White House escapades.

MoveOn provided a gateway to mounds of information and in a short time, she was swapping e-mail with Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y.

More...

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Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Help stop war on Iraq [from MoveOn.org] The Bush White House is planning for war without the support of our allies and without the informed consent of Congress or the American people" said Wes Boyd, President of MoveOn.org. "MoveOn.org is helping citizens throughout the nation demand that their representatives ask the hard questions and exercise their Constitutional responsibility."

Speak out, tell others, and help out; visit the action campaign online at:
. http://MoveOn.org/nowar