DISQUS

canuck55 · 1 year ago

The immediate on air reaction from Keith O:
Mr. Babington got the length of the speech wrong by at least 7 minutes. And this is analysis that will be printed in many, many newspapers, hundreds of them around the country. It is analysis that strikes me as having born no resemblance to the speech you and I just watched. None whatsoever. And for it to be distributed by the lone national news organization in terms of wire copy to newspapers around the country and websites is a remarkable failure of that news organization.

Charles Babington. Find. New. Work.

Bubbles · 1 year ago

The piece is self discrediting.

If that speech isn't worthy of praise, what speech would be? Only a partisan hack would fault it. None of Babington's comments accurately describe the speech I saw. After tonight, he'd be lucky to get a job writing for a high school newspaper.

The country is in ruins and these journalist are fighting hard to push it into even greater ruin. Just whose side are they on? America's? The publics? Whose?

DCinDC · 1 year ago

Typical, and everyone wonders why Obama is not killing in the poll numbers. The MSM just publishes what they want and who cares about being accurate. What does his editor think about this?

BassFishin · 1 year ago

From Editor&Publisher (August 29th): "Obama backers have criticized the coverage of their candidate by the AP's Washington Bureau Chief, Ron Fournier, and other AP reporters, for several months."

Apparently this starts at the top.

blakey · 1 year ago

I think the current error message from my Firefox browser speaks for itself:

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dad · 1 year ago

establishment for status quo

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

A newspaper? Mmm, I have not touched one...a piece of newsprint...in five years. I do read online NYT sometimes but never actually buy the waste of paper tabloids they have become. They are merely dirty carriers of advertising that get your hands all black. They are read by seniors. The telephone polls are on landlines, owned only by seniors. The MSM is a large dinosaur dying in a pit. Babington's piece will be read only by older voters who see only Negro and cannot hear the brilliance of this wonderful man from Illinois. They will be bussed from assisted living facilities to vote for McSame not even realizing their final years will be in piles shit because of it. My mother is part of this group. She will vote for McSame only because she cannot see past the color of Obama's skin. Her generation cannot die off fast enough. Goodbye, "greatest generation". Heckuva job! All you've done is melt polar ice caps and given us a corporate America that has fucked us all but good. How did that work out for you?

nicho · 1 year ago

This "senior" doesn't read them.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

good! blog on!!

kattywacky · 1 year ago

This is off topic, but I was wondering if John could answer something for me. Was that David Strathairn, one of my favorite actors, doing the narration for the Obama video? I thought he did a beautiful job.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

CNN internet pool.
73% Yes ...Did Democrats make a convincing case for why Sen. Barack Obama should be president?

That just shows you it was a hack piece

Indigo · 1 year ago

Every era has its oportunistic AP and its foolish Babington. President LIncoln's Gettysburg address was not well received by the press either. It was overly brief, rhetorical in excess, and did not address the real issues of the day. There was no reason for him to travel all the way to Pennsylvania by expensive rail transport to deliver a trivial speech at a cemetary, it was political opporutnism that motivated him. Oddly enough, Lincoln was a Republican! It's difficult to imagine what the press would have to say if he'd been a Democrat!

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Chuck Todd, interviewed on The Today Show by Meredith Vieira, talking about McCain's VP, mentions Meg Whitman as a possibility. Vieira comments that Whitman would be an unconventional choice for VP. Todd then says that a lot of Republicans wish McCain would pick "an obvious woman" as his running mate.

An obvious woman? As opposed to what--a not-so-obvious woman like Charlie Crist?

Indigo · 1 year ago

Does Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction qualify as "obvious"?

vkobaya · 1 year ago

a lofty vision for the nation's future that is far easier to articulate than to accomplish.

I suppose it is better to have their minds in the gutter like Bush and McCain, intent on the easy low road, violating their oaths of office, trampling the Constitution, Bill of Rights and laws of the land (crimes against the nation), stealing and embezzling trillions of dollars, and earning the enmity and hatred of the American people and the world. Yeah, I'm sure Obama's lofty vision is despicable to people who still admire Bush and want a repeat in John McCain.

The media frequently runs obituaries that are written long before the death of the subjects of the articles. If this article had stuck to honest facts instead of dishonest attacks, speculation and lies, I don't see why that it was prewritten alone is a condemnation ... provided the intent was honest ... ha ha! There was clearly no honest intent in that article. Typical of the right wing, the intent was dishonest.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Guess which Australian billionaire media mogul sits on AP's executive board?

TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago

An accurate and fair account was never the intent of Babington's effort.

dommyluc · 1 year ago

I loved that the speech was basically a big, hot, wet "FUCK YOU" to John McCain, Bush/Cheney and the KKKarl Rove Republican Party. I especially liked how Obama said the Rethugs have to "own" the failures of the last 7 years. BTW, how's that "permanent Republican majority" working out for you, KKarl? Oh, and I've also heard they have a new size of Depends for KKKarl to start wearing: they're called "Katrina-Sized".
Oh, and Obama didn't mention 9/11 4,356 times in 44 minutes. This, of course, can only be good for the Giuliani Presidential campaign.

nicho · 1 year ago

Today's U.S. media reminds me of nothing so much as the Soviet press during the height of the USSR. They would report whatever the government wanted them to report. A standing joke used to be that they would print obituaries of people who "died unexpectedly" two weeks before they actually died.

The only difference was that in the USSR everyone knew that it was propaganda and bullshit. In the US today, a significant number of people actually think what they read and hear is "fair and balanced."

I was struck when I was traveling out of the country a while ago, and the only English news I could get was Al Jazeera in English. It was so much more professional and "fair and balanced" than the American crap that people watch.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Charles Babington is SURE to get a raise from the AP since they have become our nation's PRAVDA along with FOX NEWS. AP SUCKS... They have lost ALL credibility.

BassFishin · 1 year ago

From Editor&Publisher (August 29th): "Obama backers have criticized the coverage of their candidate by the AP's Washington Bureau Chief, Ron Fournier, and other AP reporters, for several months."

Apparently this starts at the top of AP, beyond Babington.