tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post7954014858389110102..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indiana™: Gibson's Interview Of PalinGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-76615203096219284512008-09-14T00:45:00.000-05:002008-09-14T00:45:00.000-05:00Art, Gibson has a right and a responsibility to as...Art, <BR/><BR/>Gibson has a right and a responsibility to ask her about foreign policy. He also has a responsibility as a journalist (snicker, snicker) to make sure he is reporting facts not conjecture. <BR/><BR/>From the Society of Professional Journalists web site, Code of Ethics<BR/><BR/><I>Journalists should:<BR/><BR/>— Test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error. Deliberate distortion is never permissible.<BR/>— Diligently seek out subjects of news stories to give them the opportunity to respond to allegations of wrongdoing.<BR/>— Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability.<BR/>— Always question sources’ motives before promising anonymity. Clarify conditions attached to any promise made in exchange for information. Keep promises.<BR/>— Make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.<BR/>— Never distort the content of news photos or video. Image enhancement for technical clarity is always permissible. Label montages and photo illustrations.<BR/>— Avoid misleading re-enactments or staged news events. If re-enactment is necessary to tell a story, label it.<BR/>— Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information except when traditional open methods will not yield information vital to the public. Use of such methods should be explained as part of the story<BR/>- Never plagiarize.<BR/>— Tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience boldly, even when it is unpopular to do so.<BR/>— <B>Examine their own cultural values and avoid imposing those values on others.</B><BR/>— Avoid stereotyping by race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, geography, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance or social status.<BR/>— Support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant.<BR/>— Give voice to the voiceless; official and unofficial sources of information can be equally valid.<BR/>— <B>Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.</B><BR/>— Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.<BR/>— Recognize a special obligation to ensure that the public's business is conducted in the open and that government records are open to inspection.</I> (emphasis added)<BR/>http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp<BR/><BR/>Gibson and the majority of the MSM have shown a clear bias towards BO, and are therefore in violation of their own Code of Ethics. That is why so much of the MSM is dying out and alternative media is thriving. According to JournalismJobs.com (http://www.journalismjobs.com/layoffs.cfm) there have been approx. 30,000 layoffs in the MSM since 2000. And don't say this is the fault of Bush economics, it is the fault of too many extremist getting a hold of pen and paper, and the majority of Americans cannot stomach the bias.Shofarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797039592108775302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28310418686834288322008-09-13T10:13:00.000-05:002008-09-13T10:13:00.000-05:00She came off as Libertarian in the ABC interview. ...She came off as Libertarian in the ABC interview. She also came off as confident and I think Sarah Barracuda smoked him! <BR/><BR/>And regarding the abortion issue, even the libertarians don't agree on that one.M Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892309818226431745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-42477756723274048042008-09-13T08:05:00.000-05:002008-09-13T08:05:00.000-05:00the nerve of Gibson asking questions about foreign...the nerve of Gibson asking questions about foreign policy to Palin just because she is running for vice president...artfugginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364503656694166926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40239957387749165462008-09-13T08:02:00.000-05:002008-09-13T08:02:00.000-05:00//I agree with you that he went way harder on Pali...<EM>//I agree with you that he went way harder on Palin than Obama.//</EM><BR/><BR/>You must have missed the part where Gibson grilled Obama on his Jerusalem flip-flop and I thought Obama responded quite awkwardly to the challenge. <BR/><BR/>If we are going to challenge Gibson, it cannot be on partiality, but the substance of his questions, as the Krauthammer essay points out.LA Sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445498119590721449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-67303938653879966282008-09-13T05:45:00.000-05:002008-09-13T05:45:00.000-05:00I agree with you that he went way harder on Palin ...I agree with you that he went way harder on Palin than Obama. Unfortunately for Palin, he succeeded. She didn't do very well. :\ She struggled with questions. She flopped on the global warming issue. It seemed like he was tricking her into making comments contrary to McCain policy, but she was falling for it. Still, this is way early. It's just an interview (with an occasionally-attacking journalist). Her first interview, at that. It's funny, but I don't think it knocks her capabilities at all.bobisimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17043948097405363106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-32096610218660151742008-09-13T00:27:00.000-05:002008-09-13T00:27:00.000-05:00From Charles Krauthammer, Townhall.com:"Ms. Palin ...From Charles Krauthammer, Townhall.com:<BR/><BR/><I>"Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of `anticipatory self-defense.'" -- New York Times, Sept. 12<BR/><BR/>WASHINGTON -- Informed her? Rubbish.<BR/><BR/>The Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.<BR/><BR/>There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today.<BR/><BR/>He asked Palin, "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"<BR/><BR/>She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, "In what respect, Charlie?"<BR/><BR/>Sensing his "gotcha" moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, he grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine "is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense. <BR/><BR/>Wrong.<BR/><BR/>I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term." </I><BR/><BR/>http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/09/13/charlie_gibsons_gaffee<BR/><BR/>The Palin attacks are getting so obvious as to be laughable. The disingenuous of the Bo campaign in how they are dealing with Palin slaps every thinking person in America right in the face.<BR/><BR/>Obama was interviewed on the Russ Parr show the other day, and was asked about the attacks on Palin. His reply was that he was not running against her. Yet his surrogates in the media attack and attack. BO and his team are not only taking pages from the Alinsky play book, but also from the "Boss" Richard J. Daley, late mayor of Chicago.Shofarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797039592108775302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-49353372492464799832008-09-12T22:26:00.000-05:002008-09-12T22:26:00.000-05:00If AIP embodies Palin's views on government becaus...If AIP embodies Palin's views on government because she attended their convention, then Kanye West must embody Obama's views on the Constitution because he attended the Democratic Convention.<BR/><BR/>http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/9695755Downtown Indyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06239811599722585898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-47166508191666984652008-09-12T20:57:00.000-05:002008-09-12T20:57:00.000-05:00Palin knew more about it than Gibson does. In fac...Palin knew more about it than Gibson does. In fact, Gibson knows very little insofar as he thinks there is only one.<BR/><BR/>Palin recognized that there are several (four) incarnations of a "Bush Doctrine". She thought he meant the one that seeks to expand democracy in the Middle East as a way to combat Islamic radicalism.<BR/><BR/>Gibson thinks that the Bush doctrine only consists of the stated US policy to not wait till a terrorist danger manifests itself on American soil.... and that such a gathering threat will be attacked pre-emptively before it can harm Americans.<BR/><BR/>He has nothing on Sarah Palin, who is clearly his superior on this subject.Covenant60https://www.blogger.com/profile/00778037319510838719noreply@blogger.com