{"id":209,"date":"2005-11-18T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2006-03-23T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T21:40:30","slug":"media-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Media Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/2869\">example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Ignore Congressman Murtha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Long History Of Opposition to the Iraq War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Murtha first voiced his displeasure with how things were going in Iraq on September 16, 2003, when he called for the immediate firing of President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defense leadership team. The network news organizations this evening chose not to inform their viewers of this, and, instead, implied that Rep. Murtha was a &#8220;hawk&#8221; that has always supported this war, and that his statements today were recent revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Quite the contrary, the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines03\/0917-06.htm\">reported<\/a> on September 17, 2003 (link courtesy of Common Dreams.org):<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of the strongest Democratic supporters of the invasion of Iraq joined the growing offensive against the administration&#8217;s postwar planning today, demanding that President Bush fire his defense leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Democrat, Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a decorated Vietnam veteran, said that he had been misled into voting for the war by incorrect information from top administration officials and that the president had also been misled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u2122You can&#8217;t fire the president unless you&#8217;re in California,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mr. Murtha said. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBut somebody recommended this policy to him, and he took the recommendation. Somebody has to be held responsible, and he&#8217;s got to make the decision who it was.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/2869\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more example. Media Ignore Congressman Murtha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Long History Of Opposition to the Iraq War Rep. Murtha first voiced his displeasure with how things were going in Iraq on September 16, 2003, when he called for the immediate firing of President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defense leadership team. The network news organizations this evening chose not to inform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}