Wednesday, April 30, 2003


FOXNEWS: NO SPIN ZONE

A great exchange from Fox & Friends is documented on the Dust in the Light Blog. Here's part of it:
[Former Scud Stud Arthur] Kent noted a meeting between Donald Rumsfeld and the Ba'athists in 1984 and mentioned that "the very nations" (the U.S. and U.K.) that liberated Iraq were also complicit in propping up the regime. Of course, one could point out the actual sources of support for Hussein and note that even the Pope met with Tariq Aziz much more recently than 1984. But what I found interesting was Kilmeade's response: "So, for your show about the horrors of Saddam's regime, you emphasize the role of the United States?"
60 Minutes has been doing challenging interviews like this for 30 years (mostly challenging figures on the right), while the rest of television has followed the softball examples of Larry King and Barbara Walters -- make your guest look good and they'll come back to deliver more ratings. Now, it takes the former sports guy from Fox Xpress to show the media how to conduct an interview that amounts to more than a press release.

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