Media plans all out war on cheney

[johnnyBgood]

MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE
Sun Feb 19 2006 10:57:36 ET

If the nation's top magazines have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage!

This just in... Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning high impact covers of Cheney for newsstands starting tomorrow, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas.

NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means.

TIME headlines a poll: DICK CHENEY APPROVAL RATING 29%

NEWSWEEK editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."

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On CNN's RELIABLE SOURCES, WASHINGTON POST reporter Dana Milbank fretted that the White House is exploiting the public's growing disdain for the mainstream media. "Of course they succeed,"� Milbank said of Bush aides. "œThe press always looks awful. They will once again make us look awful."�

CNN's Candy Crowley added: "The perception is that we're whining."

White House correspondent Bill Plante of CBS agreed.

"The vice president and the White House have both used the constant press coverage of this story as a wedge,"� he told RELIABLE SOURCES host Howard Kurtz. "œIt plays to the prejudices of the people who are predisposed not to like us, and it's one way to distract attention from what happened."�
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I don't know if this is because the media is pissed cause they didn't get the story first, or if it's because of the secrecy and the time it took for cheney to report this. I don't think cheney would of said anything if there was a way for him to kept it quiet from everyone. You have to look at his past records.

[kevin1]

More than half of the folks surveyed at any given time can't even name the sitting VP , why would they care what his approval rating is ? The press is just making themselves look even more stupid , most folks are getting tired of hearing about the incident anyway .

[The Rev]

Goes to show that the Liberal Media is just following the other ignorant Liberals,,, There's certainly a lot more to chase than Cheney. Why don't they investigate to see how Kerry, Clinton, and Kenney function without brains?

[DougMD]

The press hates Cheney, so they are going after whatever they can to try and get him. The worst part is that liberals never learn a lesson. From the Wellstone funeral to the King funeral, nothing learned. It is so transparent to the American people that they are going overboard, so I hope it hurts circulation, and opens eyes as to how far left even the "moderates" are, since surely they will be making their criticisms of Cheney in that "all out war."

[kevin1]

Why even go after Cheney at all ? It's not like he's gonna be in office after '08 . Ever notice that "liberal" and "dumbass" sound an awful lot alike ? I have ...

[PiedmontPete]

The White House press corpshas all the objectivity of a lynch mob in their coverage of Cheney. And then they wonder why they aren't the first to know when Cheney does something stupid...