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| MSM - One More Week Of Cheney Coverage |
| 2006-02-19 |
| Make or break week for David 'Liveshot' Gregory? MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE Sun Feb 19 2006 10:57:36 ET If the nation's top magazines have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage! This just in... Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning high impact covers of Cheney for newsstands starting tomorrow, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas. Not quite the 1927 Yankees, but a good roundup of Trotskyites nonetheless. NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means. TIME headlines a poll: DICK CHENEY APPROVAL RATING 29% AKA: Kicking a man while he's down. It's easier! NEWSWEEK editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times." In other words, 'we don't like Cheney, and now we finally have our best shot at him.' |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #5 Yawn, my prediction is that the Newsweak and Slimes magazines sales will plumet even further. Time for a good karen flush or equivalent. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-02-19 14:47 |
| #4 THE MSM ARE NOT ONLY HURTING OUR COUNTRY, THEY ARE AFFECTING THE ABILITY OF THE USA TO WIN THE WOT. I AM ABOUT READY FOR THE U.S. GOVT TO DECLARE A MEDIA WAR AND START GETTING THE TRUTH OUT MORE EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICENTLY. DOWN WITH THE MSM. |
| Posted by: bgrebel 2006-02-19 14:45 |
| #3 press corps approval rating ? square root of negative one = i |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-19 14:21 |
| #2 "DICK CHENEY APPROVAL RATING 29% " The Dems disapprove because he's Cheney. And a big hunk of the rest are not thrilled with the aid his mistake gave to the foes of the Second Amendment. It's a lot easier to score 'disapproval' points than 'approval' - people don't approve unless you do pretty much everything to their satisfaction, but they will disapprove if you only fail to satisfy on one point. That is, I think, what is behind Bush's fairly low 'approval' ratings. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-02-19 13:48 |
| #1 What? OMG! David Gregory saw his shadow and we're doomed to another week of Cheney all day, all night? And here I thought Washington reporters didn't have shadows and couldn't see themselves in mirrors. |
| Posted by: Omavirt Ebbuper5911 2006-02-19 13:23 |