Grading the Media for Truth so far...can't create a poll, so list???

[NRaleighLiberal]

I've only been able to watch a few min of coverage today. But, overall, thinking about the week as a whole, what's the view -

CNN, MSNBC, Faux (hard for me to be serious when typing that one), Network News (NBC,CBS, ABC, PBS), Major print media (WaPost, NYTimes) -

my gut feeling is that it is variable, but I think overall I would give CNN a B (except for Wolf, who gets a D), MSNBC a B, Faux a surprising D+ (only escapes an F due to Shep), Networks an F for not interrupting their constant stream of waste land TV, but a B for the nighly news coverage (CBS prob the best), NYT gets a B+ today - Rich's column was very good, not sure about WaPost...

other views?

I guess the reasonably good news is that it was hard to spin the real pictures, though some tried....and this is light years more truthful than most of what we've been shoveled over the past 5 years. My question is whether the spin cycle will undo some of the emerging clarity.

[Liberty Belle]

1. CBS' Bob Schieffer called it "survival of the richest" and damned the

administration. He's usually a Bush family crony (plays golf with Bush Sr., tossed softball Qs at W during the debate).

On Fox, Geraldo made a surprisingly impassioned plea to help those trapped at the Superdome. I'd rate Fox a C-; at least some of their broadcasters have actually been reporting real news without the pro-administration spin, for once.

Anderson Cooper and Nancy Grace have been very good on CNN.

I haven't watched ABC or much of MSNBC.

Let's not forget print media.

Newsday's Jimmy Breslin ran an editorial ranking Bush as the most incompetent president ever.

The Washington Post and NY Times have also run highly critical articles and editorials roasting the Bush administration.

Has anyone watched the late night comedians? I imagine they are barbecuing Bush on a spit, as they should be.

On edit, MSNBC is providing some good coverage, too.

Excerpt:

Battered and sickened survivors made no attempt to disguise their anger: "We have been abandoned by our own country, " Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, just south of New Orleans, told NBC's Meet the Press.

"It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans," Broussard said. "Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureacracy has to stand trial before Congress now."

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Didn't know that about Schieffer...........thanks.

I haven't seen late-night shows, but I can't wait until Jon Stewart comes back. He is going to rip that crew a new asshole. I have a feeling the gloves will be COMPLETELY off!!!