With a week to go before a close election, the New York Times continues to move beyond Democratic cocooning (though it does some of that too) in the direction of flat-out misrepresenation. Kate Zernike's Kerry story not only doesn't ever get around to telling Times readers what Kerry actually said--it leaves the clear impression that what Kerry said was something different (and more benign) than it was.** Patterico prosecutes.Yeah, I got that same feeling too after watching CNN and The Daily Show yesterday.
More: This is interesting too from STeve Young of Huffington Post, tungkol sa CBS.
Tuesday night, the 8PM (EST) CBS Radio news opened with the big John Kerry joke story.
The anchor called Kerry's joke one "that fell flat." In comedian circles, that's a joke that the audience didn't get or they got but it just didn't work.
I.E. The audience didn't think it was funny.
CBS then played the now infamous clip of Kerry telling his joke. Not even a titter from his audience of collegians, who should be smart enough to get a joke, even ones botched by a U.S. Senator (one would hope that politicians would unlearn "always open with a joke").
The CBS anchor was right. It fell flat...as a failed presidential pancake.
And that's how I would have left it...if I hadn't heard the actual student reaction to Kerry's flat material on a non-news show.
The audience had laughed. They got the joke. It had, in fact, worked.
The CBS News that continues to be the Right WIng's target as the Network of Rather™, had cut the audience's reaction to Kerry's clumsy joke. If they had included his audience's positive reaction, the "flat" reference wouldn't have worked and the continued demonization of Kerry's comments would have been more difficult to sell.
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