STICKS AND STONES
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One of the most
talked-about exchanges in
Sticks and Stones occurred
between reporter Bob McKeown and Ann Coulter and
concerned Canada's role in the Vietnam War. Watch
the McKeown/Coulter exchange... (runs
appox 3 min)
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U.S RESPONSE NEW
When we first aired Sticks and Stones earlier this
year, the American media were quick to react, especially
Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter. Take
a look for
yourself. (runs
appox 90 secs)
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RESOURCES
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is the
author of four New York Times bestsellers - How
to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)(October, 2004), Treason: Liberal
Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander:
Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes
and Misdemeanors:The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).
She is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including Hannity and Colmes, Wolf
Blitzer Reports, At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Scarborough Country, HBO's Real
Time with Bill Maher, and The O'Reilly Factor.
Ann Coulter's website
Charles Lewis
In late 1988, he quit a successful career as a producer for the CBS News program
60 Minutes and began the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan
watchdog organization in Washington that investigates political influence, corruption
and other ethics-related issues.
The Center under Lewis published more than 250
investigative reports, including 14 books, its work honored by Investigative
Reporters and Editors (IRE), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and
others 28 times.
During this time, the Center raised and spent $30 million on
its wide-ranging programmatic work, utilizing roughly 200 paid intern researchers,
its findings or perspective appearing in roughly 10,000 news media stories.
Center
for Public Integrity website
Charles
Lewis - information from the Center of Public
Integrity
Anatomy
of a Lobbying Blitz: Cable industry enlists
diverse crowd in high-level influence campaign -
Well Connected is an ongoing investigation by the Center
for Public Integrity of the businesses that control the
information pipelines in the United States as well as
their government overseers
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly began working in news
in 1975 in Pennsylvania. By 1989 he moved on to the syndicated
show Inside Edition. According to his website, O'Reilly
began broadcasting at Fox news in 1996, and "The
O'Reilly Factor," seen "weeknights on the
Fox News Channel", continues to dominate the television
news ratings, consistently ranking as the highest rated
cable news show for more than two years. It is also carried
in dozens of foreign countries.
His radio show, "The
Radio Factor" is heard on more than 400 stations
nationwide. He has also had three consecutive number
one non-fiction books on the New York Times Best Sellers
list.
Bill
O'Reilly's website
Bernard Goldberg
Bernard Goldberg spent nearly thirty years at CBS
News, where he won an Emmy Award. In 1996, he wrote
an op-ed article which accused CBS and the mainstream
press of liberal bias. This was soon followed by the New
York Times bestseller Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes
How the Media Distort the News and later in November
2003 he wrote Arrogance: Rescuing America From
the Media Elite.
Al Franken
Al Franken is a television writer and producer. He
hosts a show on the Air America Radio network, and
is the best-selling author of several books including Lies
and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Look at the Right, and Rush Limbaugh is a
Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. In 2003,
he was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government.
Air
America Radio
Richard Mellon Scaife
In 1999, the Washington Post published a series of
feature
articles on Richard Mellon Scaife and the causes
he funds.
Media Monitoring Sites
Both of these groups track and expose what they believe
to be right wing media bias in the mainstream American
press.
Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting
Media Matters
Both of these groups track and expose what they believe
to be left wing media bias in the mainstream American
press.
Media Research Center
Accuracy In Media
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