I like to watch TV magazine programs like Dateline, 20/20 and of course, the original, 60 Minutes. I DVR the programs and will at least see what the topic is and then decide if I am going to watch them. I love 60 Minutes and usually watch the segments. I値l skip some of the nonsense segments that spend an hour going over an obscure murder or something that has mysterious circumstances around it.
So Sunday night I recorded 60 Minutes and was interested in a segment on the Iraqi war. It had an interview with 4 Star General Abizaid who took over for Tommy Franks as the commander in charge of the operation in the middle east (as well as other responsibilities). He has a really interesting background (West Point, Harvard, speaks fluid Arabic) and I wanted to see what he had to say.
Now, most of Americans understand that television news and the media in general is very biased toward the left side of politics. The media is very liberal and I have no problem with it as long as they are clear with their slant on specific stories. I still love the Boston Globe, still read the NY Times and still watch the evening news even though they are not objective, not in the least.
60 Minutes has always been the same, even more so than other news magazine shows. Again, I have no issue with it, I read enough to get a full picture. Or at least think I do. People often rely too much on one source for their facts (i.e. only watch Bill O坦eilly, only read Washington Post, only watch local news, etc) and I try to read enough to get the facts, then I can see what is clear political motives on a segment and what is just reporting of facts. I値l admit I look at things through a certain colored glass, but I try.
So I watched the segment with Abizaid and it was a freakin joke. The show didn稚 match up one of its heavy weights or well known/respected journalists like Safer, Mike Wallace or even Lesley Stahl. It paraded out Lara Logan, this young cutie who wore a tight shirt in Iraq and fish net stockings while interviewing a FOUR STAR GENERAL at his headquarters in Tampa. She insulted him by calling the war a defeat (managing defeat) and was no more objective than David Duke speaking about affirmative action. She is certainly attractive and I知 sure she is smart, but the interview and the segment in general was a joke. If they got President Bush to do an interview, would they have Michael Moore write the segment and Lara in a bathing suite?
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