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ABC News Teams Up With Obama White House to Present President's Health Care Plan

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On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

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Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.
DRUDGE REPORT: ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA 2009®

Nah... no media bias.. not at all. Could you imagine if Foxnews had done this with Bush and say... Iraq?

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Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

I for one am not shocked.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Not shocked.

Very very disappointed.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

I for one am not shocked.

You would prefer a debate over health care broadcast from the Blue Room? Somehow I don't think ABC has the clout to arrange that.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

What are you on about?
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

It sounds to me like they're interviewing Obama about healthcare. What am I missing?
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

A=All
B-Barrack
C-Channel

C-Clinton
N-News
N-Network

Anybody else seeing a common trend here?
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Drudge, are you kidding me? Drudge is not breaking news!!!

Get this off of here.

This is a friggin' OP Ed piece.

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Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Drudge, are you kidding me? Drudge is not breaking news!!!

Get this off of here.

This is a friggin' OP Ed piece.




It's op ed?
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

It's op ed?

Look at the way the piece is written. It's partisan spin at best, it's not journalism, it's not news.

Is Drudge leaving out facts and/or explanation. How would we know. There are not links to sources.

I come across stories on Drudge-like sites. I go to an NEWS SOURCE before posting the story here in BREAKING NEWS.

Drudge is such a partisan hack. At least Huff Post puts links right to the actual news story.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Who watches abc anyway?

Desperate Housewives who are Lost.

Scrubs who read Grey's Anatomy.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

we need to go back to when a person/company could only own one media outlet. Don't know how far that would go to fighting media bias, but it couldn't hurt.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

*points to my signature picture.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

we need to go back to when a person/company could only own one media outlet. Don't know how far that would go to fighting media bias, but it couldn't hurt.

I'm on board.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Look at the way the piece is written. It's partisan spin at best, it's not journalism, it's not news.

Is Drudge leaving out facts and/or explanation. How would we know. There are not links to sources.

I come across stories on Drudge-like sites. I go to an NEWS SOURCE before posting the story here in BREAKING NEWS.

Drudge is such a partisan hack. At least Huff Post puts links right to the actual news story.

It's A Drudge Headline, he often beats the other media to the punch. It's not OP Ed, but the Mods here will move it, it's after all, a negative obama story.
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

we need to go back to when a person/company could only own one media outlet. Don't know how far that would go to fighting media bias, but it couldn't hurt.

Wouldnt that conflict with the free market though?
 
ABC News will host an hour-long special on health care reform in the U.S. next Wednesday from the White House East Room -- a move that ABC is defending but critics are calling a surrender to the Obama administration's effort to control the debate.
The prime time special -- called "Questions for the President: Prescription for America" by ABC News -- will be a nationally televised event during which President Obama will answer questions presented by audience members selected by ABC News.

Participants will present a broad range of "divergent opinions in this historic debate," according to the press release announcing the event. Viewers will also be able to submit questions via ABCNews.com.

But critics of Obama's health care reform are asking that they be allowed to voice their side of the national debate.

"In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this prime time infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime," Ken McKay, Chief of Staff for the Republican National Committee, wrote in a letter to ABC News President David Westin.

"The president has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this prime time event," McKay wrote.

ABC News Senior Vice President Kerry Smith returned volley to McKay in her own letter released Tuesday. She said any viewer who watches will be sure to find the network's coverage is "informative, fair and civil."
ABC News Teams Up With Obama White House to Present President's Health Care Plan - Political News - FOXNews.com

There, now it's "news" and not a Drudge breaking headline.

Happy children?


I love how ABC will be picking the questions... I know I know, they have to feed the answers to the Teleprompter ahead of time.
 
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Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Look at the way the piece is written. It's partisan spin at best, it's not journalism, it's not news.

Is Drudge leaving out facts and/or explanation. How would we know. There are not links to sources.

I come across stories on Drudge-like sites. I go to an NEWS SOURCE before posting the story here in BREAKING NEWS.

Drudge is such a partisan hack. At least Huff Post puts links right to the actual news story.





you do know Drudge is a Democrat, and uhm thats what his entire site is for the most part. links to news site, right?
 
Re: Abc turns programming over to obama; news to be anchored from inside white house

Revernd HellhOund Posted
(you do know Drudge is a Democrat, and uhm thats what his entire site is for the most part. links to news site, right?)

While Drudge may indeed be a Democrat and favor Democratic News outlets, he also provides links to sites that are distinctly NON Democratic.

In other words the Drudge site is reasonably well balanced as to which flavor of Politics one might wish to read.

Regarding this ABC outlet from within the White House, my take on President Obama might well be:-

DEAR LEADER.


In precisely the same way were I to be Iranian (Which I am not) I would now have to recognize Ahmadinejad as:-


DEAR LEADER
 
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