CNN sorry for Bush speech gaffe
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CNN apologized Tuesday  after an open mike transmitted an anchor's bathroom  conversation with another woman live over the network as it was  carrying President Bush's speech in New Orleans.
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American star newscaster Dan Rather has apologised on prime time television for using falsified documents to back a report that had cast doubts on President George Bush&#39;s Vietnam-era military service.
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In a mea culpa that could cast a pall over the television news industry, the network yesterday said that memos relating to President George W. Bush&#39;s service in the Texas National Guard were likely forgeries.
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Television network NBC apologized  for itself and actress Jane Fonda on Thursday after she used an  offensive word on the "Today Show."
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Fox News apologized Friday for posting phony quotes from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on its Web site.
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I saw most of the speech given on Monday by Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University. I also watched a lot of the coverage that night and the following morning by MSNBC and CNN, and I gotta say, they behaved shamefully, as badly as Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, who introduced Ahmadinejad.  Transcript of the Ahmadinejad speech. Video of the entire talk and intro. 1 hr 21 min. Ahmadinejad came off as a gentleman, he had every right to be offended. Had I been in his place, I would have found it hard to give a speech after the intro Bollinger gave. And then the cable networks completely misrepresented what happened. It was beyond spinning, it was outright propoganda. It wasn't until Hardball that a reporter, Chris Matthews, talked about what really happened. It's basic decency to the guest and to the people watching, that they not tell us what to think. It's a very American thing to let people make up their own minds. That Ahmadinejad was able to claim this as an Iranian value, when it was so clearly not an American one that day, was shameful to me as an American.  What if Columbia had maintained neutrality. Asked direct questions, accepted his answers and moved on. We got the tiniest glimpse of how revealing that might have been when he said that Iran didn't have homosexuality. The audience laughed as if he was making a joke (not in derision as the TV anchors reported). At first it wasn't at all clear if it was humor, his delivery was so straight, he seemed serious, but how could he seriously expect us to believe there were no gay people in Iran?? When it was clear he wasn't joking, it was a chilling moment. There it is, that's the face of despotism. Now we know, despite his protests, that we're still better than he is, I haven't heard the US government claim that there are no gays in America (but I have heard them say things approaching that level of dishonesty).  Had they just let Ahmadinejad speak for himself there would probably have been no need to hit us over the head with what they want us to think about him. But as it stands, that was the only clear thing he said at Columbia that wasn't basically reasonable.  His pitch: I come from a place that's far away from here. You sent your army to fight on our border. We don't like the Israelis because they mistreat the Palestinians who had nothing to do with the Holocaust (a far cry from saying the Holocaust never happened). It's pretty clear, although he didn't say it, that given a choice, he would like to see the Palestinian people rule the space now occupied by Israel (this is probably what they mean when he says he wants to "wipe" Israel off the map). So, that's not our position, but it's not really different from ours. The reality is that there are two peoples who claim that territory. So Iran is on the other side. That's not exactly front page news. An aside, very few Americans know the role we played in overthrowing Iran's attempt at democracy in the 1950's. I highly recommend reading Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men for the story. For an overview, Chris Lydon did a podcast interview with Kinzer in 2003.  We lose so much when we don't have the courage to listen to our foes. Some of my countrymen see it as a sign of weakness to listen, but they're wrong -- if we're sure we're right, what exactly do we have to lose by listening? Only if we're concerned that we might be wrong, should we fear listening, and then only if we want to stay wrong. Look, I know I'm not going to convince any of the people who say that everyone who uses their mind is weak, but to people who like to decide for themselves, and want free speech for everyone, don't be fooled by what you hear on TV. They act as if they are owned by people who desperately want a war with Iran, and are willing to sacrifice American freedom to get there. Bollinger is clearly one of those people. And so is Time-Warner, Microsoft and GE (the owners of CNN and MSNBC). If not, then please do something about it, shake up the media so that we get to really discuss this, openly and fairly, before we start yet another ruinous war.
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Former President Clinton has a message for Democrats inconsolable after President Bush's re-election: Buck up. It's not that bad. You need to improve your image.
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NEW YORK ABC is apologizing for last night&#39;s introduction to &quot;Monday Night Football.&quot; There have been complaints from viewers and from the NFL.
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NEW YORK - CBS apologized Monday and said it was misled about the authenticity of documents used to support a "60 Minutes" story that questioned President Bush's Vietnam War-era National Guard service, after several experts denounced them as fakes.   "We should not have used them," CBS News President Andrew Heyward said...
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NEW YORK - CBS News apologized Monday for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President Bush's National Guard service, claiming it was misled by the source of documents that several experts have dismissed as fakes.    The network said it would appoint an independent panel to look at its reporting about the memos...
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BS News said yesterday that it had postponed a &quot;60 Minutes&quot; segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq.
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Reaction to President Bush's State of the Union address Wednesday.
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Remarks made by actor Danny  DeVito's about President Bush were bleeped out during an  appearance Wednesday morning on ABC's "The View."
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White House press secretary Tony Snow apologized on Monday for suggesting that President Bush believed stem-cell research amounted to "murder," saying he was "overstating the president's position."
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CBS star television journalist Dan Rather apologised on prime time television for using dubious documents to back a report that cast doubts on President George W. Bush's Vietnam era military service.
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Recent network apologies suggest a climate of cowardice inside the major media companies.
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CNNâs decision to end its 27-year relationship with Reuters last week hindered its ability to cover the latest Osama bin Laden video message as breaking news.