Anchor (Ashleigh Banfield): Coverage was biased

The Topeka Capital-Journal ^ | 04/24/2003 | Matt Moline

[GATOR NAVY]

"We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s," Banfield said during a Landon lecture appearance Thursday at Kansas State University. "We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?"

Well, I guess if she was was really dedicated she could have volunteered to be on the receiving end. Oh wait-that would have dangerous?

[GATOR NAVY]

Let's try this again-

Well, I guess if she was was really dedicated to journalism, she could have volunteered to be on the receiving end. Oh wait-that would have been dangerous?

[Carolina]

The article doesn't mention how she was received by the audience.

[Born Conservative]

Peter's cousin?

or illegitimate daughter?

[Benrand]

Another honest, unbiased, earnest Canadian.

is there anyway to physically separate the US from Canada? I got a chainsaw, I'm gonna go get started in Windsor, right near a cigar store with a huge picture of brother Fidel in the window. They loooove Cuba over there.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

Well we'll strap a camera to your keister and when we fire off a round you run up for the explosion.

[Bryan24]

Well, Ms. Banfield, I remember seeing dead Iraqi soldiers lying on the ground. I assume this was from the bullets fired from that M-16.

Question for you Ms. Banfield: Did you KNOW that when a soldier fires an M-16, the bullet will kill Iraqi soldiers?

[shhrubbery!]

"We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?"

There's no TV "coverage" of what happens during abortions on TV, either.

But I doubt Ms. Banfield protests the "horrors that were completely left out" in "journalistic" discussions of abortion.

[montag813]

What a twit. CANDAIAN--that figures. Sounds like she would be right at home at Al Jazeera.

[jonalvy44]

Ashleigh Banfield is so freakin hot!!

[BluH2o]

NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield

Ashleigh Banfield started her career in broadcasting in Kenora, Ontario (a town located on the north shore of Lake of the Woods ... 200 miles, or so, east of Winnipeg). She then moved up to a larger audience when she went to work for a TV station in Winnipeg. Don't recall the rest of her progression up to her present position, but the term "info babe" definite1y applies here ... now she's on the college lecture circuit ... go figure.

[montag813]

LOL, is that really is that what the Arabs want. Seems to me the Arabs have been hell bent to push the Jews into the sea from day 1.

Yes, Ashleigh...what did the Arabs "want" when they attacked Israel in 1967...at a time when they occupied ALL of the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan, and ALL of Jerusalem--and all Jews were forbidden from stepping foot there. Were they angry at the lack of a "peace process" then?

[Semper Paratus]

She was pissed that MSNBC kept her stateside during the war and that she lost the co-billing on "Holt and Banfield".

[fml]

Maybe so, but isn't she the one who changed her hair color to be taken more seriously?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

But she's smart...she wears really kool glasses.

[heckler]

K-State really stuck it in Alf Landon's eye this time. They generally have former heads of state, ex-presidents, senators, etc. Banfield is just a third string talking head, they must have been desperate or dillusional to put her on.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

According to Banfield, U.S. broadcasters don't accurately inform the American public of the basic reason behind widespread Islamic distrust of the U.S. -- the American government's continued unwillingness to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal partners in the future of Israel.

The American government's continued unwillingness to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal partners in the future of Israel may in fact be real. But U.S. broadcasters have been all to efficient in informing the American public of the real reason. The Palestinians desire to see every Israeli man, woman and child wiped from the face of the Earth by any means possible. At least, to me that message is all too clear when they report on all the bombings and shootings.

[techcor]

Has she ever gone into an abortion clinic and done a graphic story about what goes on in there?

[JimRed]

'Here's what the leaders of Hezbollah, a radical Muslim group, are telling me about what is needed to bring peace to Israel,...

I'll bet dollars to donuts none of her reports ever referred to Hezbollah as a "radical Muslim group".

[alnick]

"Conveniently, in the week or two we were in there, it became a message of 'freeing the Iraqi people,' " Banfield said. "That should have been the message early on, in fact, six to eight months preceding this campaign, if we were trying to win over the hearts of the Arab world."

No, every time Bush spoke about Iraq, he discussed both WMD and the plight of the Iraqi people. Banfield is a liar.