Posted on 05/02/2003 2:52:44 PM PDT by Remedy
A former foreign correspondent with ABC News is accusing the network's best-known anchor of displaying a pro-Marxist bias.
Peter Jennings and ABC News have been sharply criticized in recent weeks for the network's coverage of the Iraqi war. Many conservatives believe the Disney-owned news agency has a bias against the Bush Administration. [See Earlier Article]
Now a former correspondent with ABC, Peter Collins, has gone public with allegations that Jennings manipulated news scripts during the 1980s in order to praise the Marxist-backed Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
Collins, who covered Central America for ABC during that period, tells Cybercast News that Jennings personally dictated changes in a Collins television script, describing the Sandinista government as "a new unselfish society." The changed script also emphasized that the "Reagan Administration saw the Sandinistas as a threat and forced them into a war with the U.S.-backed Contras."
Collins says he and Jennings had several other editorial disputes -- and he believes those were the reason he eventually lost his job at ABC.
"Obviously, Mr. Jennings is anti-American, he's anti-Bush, he's anti-Republican, he's anti-Christian, he's anti-war, he's anti-coalition of the willing -- and this is not the place for a journalist to exercise his personal, political beliefs."
The Al Jazeera Broadcasting Company presents
The Evening News with Achnod Jennings
10 posted on 03/27/2003 5:22 PM EST by Yankee
Media Watch -- 04/01/1989 -- Page One: Reporters First, Americans ... In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit? That's just the question Harvard University professor Charles Ogletree Jr, as moderator of PBS' Ethics in America series, posed to ABC anchor Peter Jennings and 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace. Both agreed getting ambush footage for the evening news would come before warning the U.S. troops.
Why Americans Hate the Media - 96.02 The episode was taped in the fall of 1987. Its title was "Under Orders, Under Fire," and most of the panelists were former soldiers talking about the ethical dilemmas of their work. The moderator was Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, who moved from panelist to panelist asking increasingly difficult questions in the law school's famous Socratic style.
During the first half of the show Ogletree made the soldiers squirm about ethical tangles on the battlefield. The man getting the roughest treatment was Frederick Downs, a writer who as a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam had lost his left arm in a mine explosion.
So who (other than the AntiAmerican Disney and ABC) likes Jennings?
ANSWER: Terrorist Ashwari and Terrorist (and serial murderer of Americans and children) Abu Arafat:
"In our opinion, the best reporter on American foreign policy is
our beloved Canadian Abu Jennings,
who took the time to sleep with us.
Like us, he truly hates America.
Jennings is ours ...a Canadian Palestinian."
Socialist, maybe, but Marxist? (/sarcasm)
Christians have been boycotting disney for years.
Yeah, that old simplistic, cowboy-warmonger Reagan was just itching for a fight. Couldn't have had anything to do with a billion dollars of Soviet Military aid flowing into Nicaragua every year, or the building of a Sandinista army several times larger than that of all other Central American countries combined, or their assertion of the Brehznev (sp?) Doctrine wrt the Nicaraguan Revolution, or their open calls for revolution throughout Latin America, or their support for the Marxist/Lennist insurgency against neighboring (and democratic) El Salvador, or their brutal suppression of the press, unions, the church, the peasantry etc.
If it was any combination of those things then it might have been the Marxist/Leninist Sandinista's fault, whereas all right thinking newsanchors know that it was all Reagan's fault. Excepting that whole Democracy spreading throughout Central America thing. That, of course, (unforunate as it was from the perspective of the reds in the press) happened in spite of Reagan.
lol. : )
Surprized...NO... in '93 - Didn't PEW Research poll that said >89% of the Major Media Pressitutes voted for B.J. Sinkmiester in '92 election...and for the beloved Shillary (the smartest woman who ever lived) they really gushed...if not PEW, MRC would have the stat.
This is only news to people with their head stuck in the sand.
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