"Schieffer Stresses Need for Free Press" - hidden in entertainment section

[GreenPartyVoter]

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) - Veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer, who received the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media at the University of South Dakota, says the nation has never needed a vigorous free press more than now.

"I cannot remember a time when it's been more challenging for journalists," said Schieffer, 69, who has covered Washington for more than 30 years and hosts the CBS interview show "Face the Nation."

He said Thursday the government will always cover up its mistakes if it operates in secret and that it was up to journalists to expose the truth.

"Why does the government need a list of my phone calls?" he asked. "And what business does a democracy have running secret prisons? ... Do you believe that anyone would have known about these secret prisons or what was going on in Abu Ghraib if it had been left to the government to announce it?

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061007/D8KJSCQ00.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. kick

[Missy M]

2. I wish more journalists out there thought like Schieffer...

unfortunately, we have people in this country listening to pundits squeal all day long and less journalists out there digging for the stories we should know. Too many people believe Fox News is fair and balanced and think they are getting news when instead they are getting propaganda.

[Secular Agent Man]

3. Fox is orgasmically happy with being shackled to the GOP.

They're not the least bit concerned with "freedom" of the...press. Of course, I'm sure Bob knows that.

[Little Star]

4. Kick

[Gabi Hayes]

5. what a fricking HYPOCRITE! I can't stand that weasel.

just remember how he behaved during the debates

just remember who his brother is

need more:

here.....

Bob Schieffer, CBS chief Washington correspondent and host of Face the Nation, is scheduled to moderate the third and final presidential debate on October 13. As moderator, Schieffer will be responsible for formulating the debate questions and following up after the candidates respond. However, Schieffer has described in the past his "golfing friendship" with President George W. Bush "during the 1990s" and has said, "It's always difficult to cover someone you know personally." These and other past statements by Schieffer raise the very question that Schieffer himself suggested: Can he perform the role of objective moderator given the "difficult" of "cover someone you know personally"?

Schieffer may find it "difficult" due to Bush friendship. According to an August 20 Mother Jones article, Schieffer "struck up a golfing friendship with George W. Bush during the 1990s." In 2003, Schieffer told Washington Post staff writer and CNN host Howard Kurtz: "It's always difficult to cover someone you know personally."

Schieffer on Kerry: "Before the first debate, I think John Kerry was about to go off a cliff." On the October 11 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Schieffer stated: "I'm not an expert on polling, but I think this is a race that could go either way. I think, frankly, before the first debate, I think John Kerry was about to go off a cliff. I think he got himself back in the game."

Schieffer opined in favor of Bush after he debated Gore in 2000. As Media Matters for America previously documented, Schieffer joined the chorus of pundits that lowered the bar for Bush and raised it for former Vice President Al Gore in 2000. During CBS News presidential debate coverage on October 3, 2000, Schieffer stated: "Well, I think, clearly tonight, if anyone gained from this debate, it was George Bush because he showed that people will argue back and forth over the positions they took, but, clearly, he seemed to have as much of a grasp of the issues as -- as Al Gore did tonight. So in that sense, I think Bush gained a lot."

Schieffer used Republican talking points in place of facts. As MMFA noted the following day, on the July 18 edition of CBS's Face the Nation, Schieffer echoed Republican Party talking points in questioning Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, falsely asserting that Senator John Kerry "really has laid out no agenda" on Iraq.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410120011

there's a BOATLOAD of this...google is your friend.

Bob Schieffer is not