the whores are SERIOUSLY threatened by the applause Lowery got

[Cocoa]

First CNN splices out the applause, then Fox takes it a step further.

Fox not only spliced out the applause, they also go out of their way to point out the lack of applause, and they tell us that the original reports of applause were exaggerated.

No wonder they hate MediaMatters.


http://mediamatters.org/items/200602080008

CNN spliced out standing ovation greeting Lowery's WMD remarks at King funeral

Summary: During a discussion on civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery's address at Coretta Scott King's funeral, CNN aired a video clip of part of Lowery's remarks, in which he mentioned the failure to find WMDs, cropping out 18 seconds of applause and the standing ovation he received without indicating that the clip had been doctored.

The February 8 edition of CNN's The Situation Room featured a video clip of part of civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery's address at the February 7 funeral of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, during which Lowery mentioned the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Lowery's WMD remarks were greeted with 23 seconds of applause and a standing ovation. But during the CNN segment, in which host Wolf Blitzer asked his panelists -- Democratic strategist Paul Begala and former Bush administration official Victoria Clarke -- whether they thought Lowery's remarks were appropriate, CNN played the clip of Lowery, but cropped 18 seconds of applause -- more than three fourths of the time -- and footage of the standing ovation, without any indication that the clip had been doctored. Viewers who were watching Lowery's remarks for the first time would not have known that they actually drew a standing ovation -- not the perfunctory five seconds of applause CNN's edited clip conveyed -- and that the 23 seconds of applause prevented Lowery from continuing his eulogy.






http://mediamatters.org/items/200602090006


After the clip aired, Kondracke stated:


The February 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume featured an edited video clip of civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery's address at the February 7 funeral of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, during which Lowery mentioned the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. While Lowery's remarks were greeted with 23 seconds of applause and a standing ovation, the clip Fox News aired presented nine seconds of applause and little hint of the standing ovation -- and no indication that the clip had been doctored. The clip was aired during a segment in which guest host Chris Wallace asked his "Fox All-Star" panel to comment on Lowery's remarks. Fox's editing of the clip apparently had some effect on Wallace's own guest, Roll Call executive editor Morton M. Kondracke, who while apparently having formed one impression based on what he had heard about the crowd's response to the remarks, concluded from the curtailed video that "it wasn't exactly uproarious in its response."

KONDRACKE: What was interesting to me was, when I saw it -- and on this tape, the crowd did not go as wild as you -- as it sounded as though it did at the time and as various people have represented. I mean, I thought that the crowd basically treated President Bush very respectfully, and it wasn't exactly uproarious in its response to either Lowery or to President Carter. So I thought it -- on the whole -- it was a -- it was quite a dramatic and sensitive tribute to Mrs. King.

[qanda]

1. They can't handle the truth

The majority of blacks cannot stand Bush and are not afraid to say so. Even the black Republicans in my family don't like Bush or the direction of the country.

They're not bothered by it being political, no one even mentioned Bush's name, they're bothered that Bush had to sit there and hear the truth. They're bothered that Americans, who are asleep and thinking that we need electronic survellience, might actually wake up and realize that the government has used these same tactics in the past against good people.

They keep putting all these black Republicans on their stations to make it seem like blacks don't like the Democrats anymore and they don't want to show the truth about the black population-- we don't like Bush, we don't like Republicans and we don't care what white America thinks about how we conduct our funerals. So they need to get over it.

[Erika]

2. Kondracke is smoking something

They treated W with politeness. They loved Carter, Lowery, and especially Clinton.

The Bushbots are having a hard time meeting reality.

Roll Call needs to can the neocons.

[Cocoa]

5. you must have heard wrong

please listen only to the approved Fox remixes.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Kondracke sold his soul to be a two-bit lackey for Shit Spume?

The Devil ripped you off, Mort.

[Ron Green]

4. These guys, Kondrake and Barnes,

are just about the most blatant of the right wing's pandering, sold-out, bought-and-paid-for slutty prosititutes that ever show up on the teevee. They are deserving of all the scorn and derision that can be mustered by any and all of us.

[Erika]

6. They are 2 ex journalists

that aren't considered journalists any more. They are right wingers bushbots.

[Willmc_Productions]

7. Now Now

Ok..
I like CNN. It did play the clip but I must admit it did a bad
job on the edit. BUT. The right has been calling CNN The
Clinton New Network for Years. 
The also played President Carter's remarks as well. 23 seconds
of clapping really does not change too much.
I did see that Fox played the entire clip. But also ran a
piece about politics at a funeral.
My only problem with all three networks is that they have
seemed to sell their soul to have reporters
"embedded" with the troops. Let's see how much that
happens if they go against the grain a bit.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi Willmc_Productions!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Lars39]

11. CNN has stated that they want to be more like Fox News.

Fox News, btw, admitted that they had government censors in their newsroom. Nice of them to be an arm of the bush administration, eh?

[Jackpine Radical]

14. The RW has been whining for years about a Libberul Media too

despite the fact that any objective content analysis always shows an extreme rightward bias. In fact, CNN is only slightly less egregious than Fox, and they're quickly closing the gap.

[No Exit]

12. They are also the biggest losers on cable TV

They can't garner an audience. They are not even has-beens. They are never-was's.

So one is left to wonder why on earth they are still sitting in those seats at Fox News. The answer is: Wingnut Welfare (Media Division).

[calimary]

8. Olbermann had this, too. In his "Worst Person in the World' segment.

Pox "news" got the bronze AND the gold this time. One of those being this story with that pathetic asswipe kondracke.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. And he spelled it FAUX *g* I love Keith!

[f-bush]

9. what a bunch of bullshit

thank God people are calling the media whores on their manipulative crap!

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Dean scream deja vu!

Manipulating the media is SOP for these guys.

[kma3346]

16. 1984: We are there!!!

This is beyond disgusting. Thank God for the Internet and blogs--otherwise, we'd all be in the dark.