Reporters stop letting the GOP con you. Please!!!!

[MSgt213]

This guy from the Washington Post does an article asking questions about reporters getting their facts straight and he can't even get his straight. Jeez.

"Frank Luntz's situation is far different. No one at MSNBC has questioned the pollster's work. But the network refused to carry his planned focus groups two days before the presidential debates began amid complaints that he is viewed as a GOP partisan.

Luntz, who once helped Newt Gingrich sell the "Contract With America," initially told The Washington Post he had taken on no Republican clients since 2001. He said last week he had forgotten that he worked for California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon in 2002 and for the effort to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis last year.

Asked how this squared with his MSNBC role, Luntz said he was working only for the network during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. "If they want to identify me as a Republican, I don't care," Luntz says. "I just want to do the work. . . . Where in the work is there a bias?" He said he sometimes speaks to Democratic groups as well as Republican ones. "I will present information to anyone who seeks it," Luntz says.

One person he has briefed is Kerry senior adviser Tad Devine. "I certainly have no complaints about Frank," Devine says. "I've always found him to be a very smart guy, insightful, doing a straight-up job in terms of research." For the moment, though, Luntz is sidelined at MSNBC."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23086-2004Oct10.html

Good article except for that part he just let Luntz pimp him.

said last week he had forgotten that he worked for California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon in 2002 and for the effort to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis last year.

Asked how this squared with his MSNBC role, Luntz said he was working only for the network during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns.
This is misleading at best. Luntz had his own program, America's Voices, on MSGOP, which began airing weeks before the October 7, 2003 California recall election. Luntz was working for MSGOP during a 2003 campaign -- the recall election campaign.

Even more significantly, NBC and MSNBC had Luntz commenting on and performing work regarding the recall election both before the election and on the night of the recall. Here's a September 2, 2003 "Hardball Briefing" which appears to be a legit copy of the MSNBC program's e-mail newsletter:


And Later...Luntz is gonna do a live focus group of Burbank voters and he and Chris will ask them what the think of The Recall, Arnold and the rest of the field...We'll also throw in comedian Ben Stein to get his take...Last time he was on he was totally slamming Arnold...

(See also here http://www.burrellesluce.com/transcripts/nbc/nigh0308.htm, here http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg00265.html and here http://www.hongpong.com/hp-archives/2003/10/08/frank_luntz_ultimate.html.)

I can't tell whether the network or Luntz disclosed his employment by the G.O.P. recall effort during any these programs. If anyone can find transcripts, let me know.

But Luntz's statement to Howie clearly avoids the fact that MSGOP was using Luntz to report on the G.O.P.-backed California recall effort that he supported and worked for.

Fool Howie twice, shame on the Washington Post...

http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2004_10_10_rogerailes_archive.html#109750207942847920

[Skittles]

1. but are they getting conned or are they whores?

nt

[rman]

2. they're not being conned, they're being cued.

they follow the cues because they know that's what is expected from them.
the real culprits aren't so much the reporters, but the chief editors, directors, and even more so their bosses - the ones who run the corporations that own the media.

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Why waste any time with the WHORESHINGTON POST

Every word in the WHORESHINGTON POST is a lie, includung the "and's" and "Buts"...