Looking at the Curious Rules of American Journalism: PBS's NewsHour and the Role of Media in Time of War
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2004-05-27 22:58
Now don't get me wrong here. I'm a card-carrying member of WXXI and I tune in everyday to 1370am. But let's be honest, NPR and PBS could definitely do a better job of uncovering the truth. Or to put it another way, WXXI definitely needs Democracy Now! to round out its coverage of the news. In fact there have been a couple of instances on the NewsHour when host Jim Lehrer went out of his way to distort reality.
In a NewsHour interview in on suicide bombings in Iraq (March 2nd), Ray Suarez interviewed Christian Parenti, author of a book on occupied Iraq. After a nuanced discussion of the various factions and motivations of the Iraqi resistance Parenti and Suarez ended with this exchange: