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O'Reilly, Van Susteren debate Fox report
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Today on "The Radio Factor," Bill O'Reilly and Greta van Susteren debated whether some recent pieces on Sarah Palin -- including one by Fox's Carl Cameron -- are gossip or real reporting. (Johnny Dollar captured the audio).
Last week, Cameron reported:
There was great concern in the McCain campaign that Sarah Palin lacked a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
We are told by folks that she didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement. That’d be Canada, the U.S., ...
O’Reilly And Greta Throw Down Over Fox’s Coverage Of Palin
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
O'Reilly and Van Susteren Heatedly Debate Cameron's Palin Story
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Fox News personalities Bill O'Reilly and Greta Van Susteren got into a heated debate on the former's radio program Monday concerning whether or not Carl Cameron should have reported gossip about Sarah Palin last Wednesday that emanated from unnamed McCain campaign staffers. Van Susteren felt that since these sources refused to be named or stand up and make their accusations in front of the camera, their assertions were basically "schoolyard trash." O'Reilly felt Cameron's report was valid because the folks he spoke to were "primary sources." Audio of this interesting difference of opinion between two ...
One of a dying breed
neo-neocon —
Who would have thought that Greta Van Susteren would be one of the last journalists with integrity? It’s all the more surprising because she’s a lawyer, too:
I never used to watch Greta’s show when it consisted of interminable yammering about interminably sensationalistic court cases. But I noticed that, throughout this long and sorry campaign, Greta was one of the few journalists that seemed to hold to some journalistic standards.
[Hat tip Ace.]
Greta argues with O'Reilly over that Carl Cameron 'gossip' on Sarah Palin
Top of the Ticket —
Greta Van Susteren, as a woman who has fought her way through the mostly-male ranks in the legal profession and the mostly-male world of journalism and the mostly-male broadcast world, has made no secret of her concern over the different standards that apply to news coverage of women in the mostly-male world of big-time politics.
Example: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. And before that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.
You know, all the coverage of their hair, up or down, how it's parted, the pantsuits, the alleged Nieman-Marcus trips, etc. With virtually no attention paid to superficialities ...
