White House Edits ABC News Then Takes it Back

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: News flash -- The White House has selectively edited a report on Iraq, taking out negative information and distorting the report's meaning.

This isn't about intelligence or weapons of mass destruction. It's my report on Thursday's evening on World News with Charles Gibson.

The report noted "violence in Iraq is down and down considerably" in virtually every category, but my report also noted that "there has been almost no political progress on the national level" and that "U.S. officials know military gains won't mean much if the Iraqi government doesn't get its act together."

The White House sent out an edited version of my report in an official White House publication called "White House Iraq Update."

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As edited by the White House, my report looked like an unqualified declaration of success in Iraq. The White House e-mail publication is headlined: "In Case You Missed It: "Violence Is Down in Iraq and Down Considerably."



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2007/11/white-house-edi.html

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Surprise, surprise!

bastards of their bad habits, whether or not we can send the war criminals to the Hague.

Free Press?????????????not anymore.

on Aaron Brown's show. Now, there's someone I'd like to hear from...

All the favorable stuff is always lumped together in the beginning and any unfavorable stuff is always thrown in at the tail end to be edited out or ignored.

What is different here is that someone complained about the usual WH editing cuts. And that someone made his complaints public.

"the usual WH editing cuts.". . They should never have been allowed to get away with it. If this is, indeed SOP. . it is born of bad habit and lazy "journalism"!

Except for the "getting called on it" part. That's a nice twist, IMHO,
and something I'd enjoy seeing more of.

recommended

and they are just pulling shit out of their asses.

control over containing their devious actions
when Rove the spin-master left.

than it is to shove it back in. :rofl:

White House Edits ABC News Then Takes it Back







How will Little Miss Spinderella explain this one?



The so-called "Liberal Media" is yet another propaganda storm foisted on the American people by a radically malignant GOP, currently headed by The Prevaricator In Chief.

Truth is like sunrise to these vampires.

:shrug: It's not like they censored Mr. Karl, they just selectively quoted his report to the recipients of their house organ in a way that emphasized their preferred angle on the story.

"Iraq Update is put together by the National Security Council and distributed by the White House via email to government officials, Congressional staffers, radio & television talk show hosts, journalists and foreign policy experts."

They're just shining on the koolaid drinkers.

Compared to Amazing Bullshit like the fake FEMA news conference, this is small potatoes in a teapot. The most surprising detail is that anyone in the press bothered to call them on it.

pretty soon they will have complete control over everything.
they will ask the questions, and they will answer the questions.
Orwell squared.....with impunity

FEMA interview concerning the California fires.

is being absorbed by the majority of American people - or if it's even being reported to the majority of the people? Is it being viewed as acceptable or too small an infraction to care? 10 years ago a fake news conference would have ruffled more than a few feathers.

why can't ABC News crack down on this? This is taking work product, employing it for the use of the government without paying for the privilege, and on top of that, editing it to distort the content, without the permission of the copyright holder!

How is that legal?

Maybe there is a presidential finding or signing statement permitting it.

:rofl:

Just,...fucking,...WOW!!!

These neo-cons are claiming victory--again. No mind that October is Ramadan. Still very,very bloody for a holy month, don't you think?
If November is as low in casualties, both US and Iraqi, I will go out and try to maim a spotted owl.

I would imagine a lot of folks are arguing with that.

http://antiwar.com/updates/

Thursday: 3 GIs, 61 Iraqis Killed; 45 Iraqis Wounded

At least 61 Iraqis were killed and 45 more were wounded during a series a bombings in the capital and elsewhere. Also, three American servicemembers were killed in separate events.

Two GIs were killed and two more were wounded during an explosion in Ninewah province. Another soldier was killed in a separate explosion in Salah ad Din province.

A truck bomb targeting an army base in Saadiya killed five and wounded 18 others, including soldiers. Another explosion, as well as a suicide bomber, was reported.

In Baghdad, a roadside bomb in Binoog killed six people and wounded seven others, including the mayor of the Azamiyah neighborhood. In al-Wathiq Square another bomb wounded four people. A man was gunned down in Mansour. In the al-Saidiya neigbhorhood gunmen wounded three people and one policeman. Also, five dumped bodies were found in several neigbhorhoods.

The police chief in Balad Ruz escaped a roadside bomb attack unharmed, but six guards were killed and eight more were wounded. Two more policemen were killed and two others were wounded during a separate bombing targeting police forces.

The body of a university professor was found in Kirkuk.

A suicide bomber was shot dead near a hospital in Tal Afar.

In Baquba, a bomb left one child dead and two others wounded.

North of Basra in al-Maqal, gunmen riding a motorcycle killed the brother of a prominent Madhi Army member. During a similar incident last night in nearby al-Hussein, a Mahdi Army member was gunned down by motorcycle-riding gunmen.

In Zarkosh, gunmen killed three people, including two soldiers.

U.S. troops killed about 14 suspects and arrested 118 more in central and northern Iraq. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces killed 13 suspects in Khalis.

considering the level violence had reached. bush is still a total asshole!!

know that Fox allows them to edit, write do whatever they want to the news they send down from Fox and of course now Dana Perrino.

Kick this mother.

Honest to God...I feel like the US public are suffering the same exact oppression the Soviets and Eastern Block felt back in the 50's. "We've come a long way baby..." I am one ashamed American citizen.

Are they running the news past the White House before they air it?

.....before it aired, if you read closely. It was in a report they issued after it aired.

Do you feel kind of used? Does it make you angry? Isn't it nice that you have a national broadcast platform to get your version of events out there in response to such duplicity?

I wonder where ABC was when certain groups were selectively reporting on Democratic nominees, candidates and office-holders? Having a good chuckle at the expense of John Kerry, Howard Dean, Paul Wellstone's surviving family and a host of others? Now you have an inkling of what it's like to be misused by the Mighty Republican Wurlitzer. But as I say, you have the advantage of a broadcast network to get your side of things out. Will you have any sort of understanding for the next victim of Republican spin? Will you provide that victim with a platform to respond?

that some of the other mainstream media outlets report this too. Maybe some of them will see the writing on the wall, that if it can happen to ABC it can happen to any of them.

There are fewer people to kill.

Neighborhoods are becoming ethnically cleansed.