Neal Gabler on FOX News Watch defended CNN by saying it's news. It happened; therefore, it should be covered.
So are partial birth abortions, and at much greater frequency.
Fox News is fast becoming Faux News.
In fairness, Steve Doocie (this morning) castrated cnn over this "traitorous" enemy propaganda piece.
LLS
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Gabler
"Neal Gabler is a professor, journalist, author, and political commentator....Gabler has taught at the University of Michigan and at Pennsylvania State University. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in film and American culture. He is currently Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center."
I am not surprised he is a "professor". He is a propagandist and nothing more. He certainly is not intelligent or educated.
With Neal Gabler on, this is another Fox program I do not watch.
I don't need to listen to communist queers anyhow.
From Chronwatch:
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=18164
Written by John Armor
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Fox News Watch is a Sunday program about journalism. This weekend, it demonstrated how not to be a journalist. The star of this dreadful segment was Neil Gabler.
Much of the discussion was on the coverage of the Iraq War. Gabler has frequently demonstrated his bias to the left on this program. This time, he was over the top.
Twice in the course of this discussion he yelled, not merely said,
“Iraq is a DISASTER. Get it? EVERYBODY gets it now.” Therefore, anyone who disagreed with his conclusion, whether a spokesman for the administration, or even anyone on the program including the token conservative on the program, Cal Thomas, is wrong.
Gabler also denigrated the actual progress in Iraq by saying,
“The good news is they painted some schools. The bad news is, anybody who teaches there is going to get blown up.”
There have been two instances of shootings of school teachers in Iraq. That is about equal to the teacher shootings in an average year in the Los Angeles Unified School District. But perspective does not seem to be Gabler’s long suit.
Host Eric Burns tried to bring Gabler back to responsibility by saying:
“You put both of those [stories] out there and let everybody decide how to weigh them.”
Gabler responded,
“Oh COME ON. It’s already BEEN weighed. That would be irresponsible for the press to say [that]. WE KNOW that Iraq is a DISASTER.” [All emphases are in the original.]
Later in the program, in defending Jon Stewart as “the best journalist in America,” Gabler said what we need is “journalism of truth.” Set aside the question of whether Stewart can be labeled as dealing in truth, rather than humor. Apply Gabler’s comment to Gabler. Neal ironically condemned his own comments on this very program.
(I could not locate on the Fox News website either a video or transcript of this program. However, the quotes are accurate from a TiVo of the program.)
Truth does not consist of the conclusion without facts, advanced by the journalist who shouts the loudest. If Gabler’s comment were accurate, all the news media could close their Iraq bureaus and bring their reporters home. Why risk the lives of real reporters to the bombs of the “insurgents,” who are actually terrorists and now are threatening to murder four more civilians, one of them an American? Why do that when a “media writer,” Neal Gabler, in his office in the United States, can provide the conclusions without risk?
Because of his obvious, public violation of the standards of journalism, Neal Gabler should apologize to the others on this program and to its viewers, on the next program. If he does not, Gabler should be dismissed and replaced with another journalist who has a better idea of how journalism should be conducted.
About the Writer: John Armor practiced in the US Supreme Court over 30 years, filing briefs in 18 cases. John may be reached at John_Armor@aya.yale.edu .