Saturday, February 19, 2005

Real News...Fake News--Fair And Balanced

I've refrained from talking about this story, but it's becoming such a huge deal that I knew I had to share! Much of the media has covered it now, including CNN's Anderson Cooper and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

Excerpt from Frank Rich's column:

" If we did not live in a time when the news culture itself is divorced from reality, the story might end there: "Jeff," you'd assume, was a lapdog reporter from a legitimate, if right-wing, news organization like Fox, and you'd get some predictable yuks from watching a compressed video anthology of his kissing up to power. But as Olbermann explained, "Jeff Gannon," the star of the montage, was a newsman no more real than a "Senior White House Correspondent" like Stephen Colbert on "The Daily Show." Yet the video broadcast by Olbermann was not fake. "Jeff" was in the real White House, and he did have those exchanges with the real McClellan and the real Bush."

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