If there was ever any doubt as to the objective nature of ABC news, those doubts have been pretty much eradicated:
Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:
Dear Mr. Westin:
As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC’s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.
Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party’s views to those of the President’s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party’s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.
In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.
Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff
The United States of America now has its very own Pravda. I guess I should be surprised that it took our glorious President this long…
General Electric, rewarded with massive Government TARP funds, already owns Pravda-1: NBC-Universal. And GE makes a lot of medical devices that Hospitals use.
Now with a little Chicago style arm-twisting the Obamagoons have a firm grip on Disney/ABC and are going out back to the woodshed for a kiss, or something…
Huh. I had no idea that GE owned NBC… I guess I should go ahead and give up on MSNBC as anything approximating a decent news source (though it is, of course, arguable that it never was).
The hospital bit is a bit of a concern too, given the lorious universalness coming down the pipeline…
They are not even trying to lie about it anymore. The blatant media bias is on full parade and display for all to see. And yet,the MSM wonder why their ratings are down,along with their revenue.
Perhaps they know something we don’t, like a possible bailout,thus state owning of the broadcast companies. Turning the big three broadcasters into PBS.
Who also pumps out propaganda for the progressives.
Advertisers. We need to write to the biggest advertisers for ABC news programming. That’s the only way to get the message across. If we tell them that we are unhappy with the reporting and will not buy their products/use their services as long as they advertise on ABC news, well that’s our best way to make an impact. Hit them in the wallet.
The lack of lying about it does not really surprise me much, Michael… what does surprise me is the lack of public outrage. Sure, us conservatives and libertarians are flipping our lids over this news, as well we should, but just about everyone else? Silence. Do people not remember how government-run news systems work? Or do they just not care?
A public broadcast bailout would not surprise me in the slightest, especially if they can start claiming a loss of viewership due to the digital cut-over…
You are absolutely right, Macbrun, and I should probably get to work on a few letters. However, after my letter campaign concerning the Commercial Appeal’s advertisers, I am less than hopeful as to their ultimate success…