The always-great CyberAlert from the Media Research Center is an especially good one today, calling MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, NBC's Brian Williams, Castro-lovin' Barbara Walters & NYT, and CNN Hezbollah pawn Nic Robertson to task, and singling out Fox News Watch panelist Jim Pinkerton for props:
...on FNC's Fox Newswatch over the weekend Jim Pinkerton recited how CNN's Nic Robertson relayed Hezbollah propaganda and CNN's Anderson Cooper later showed how Hezbollah manipulates the media.
On the July 29 Fox Newswatch, Pinkerton, a columnist for Newsday, observed of media coverage of the Israel-Hezbollh war:
"Sometimes it can be highly misleading. For example, Nic Robertson on CNN said, 'Now I'm here for an exclusive look at what's going on in Lebanon,' and the Hezbollah press aide was saying, 'Now look at this over there, civilian destruction. The Israelis just killed all these civilians.' And Robertson, 'Oh, that's really bad.' And then the Hezbollah guy said, 'We got to run.' So Robertson goes trotting along behind him like a little puppy dog. I mean, it, later, even Anderson Cooper, on the same network, CNN, said, 'Hey, that's too much. You fell for it. You can't let yourself get bamboozled that much.' Obviously, both sides are censoring. But it's the reporter's duty to say, 'Listen, I'm being censored. You might not be seeing the whole thing. And Robertson, at least for awhile, fell for it.'"
Reached for comment by The Cable Game, FNC's Pinkerton expressed unreserved admiration for MRC. "I've been watching a great deal of coverage of the Middle East, and so I saw Robertson performing tricks for his Hezbollah master with my own two eyes on CNN. Yet at the same time, I consider MRC to be a great resource and always look forward to their Cyber Alerts in my inbox."
Gotta love MRC. But how long before Olbermann names the MRC's Cyber Alert "The Worst Person, I mean Non-Tangible Entity, in the World"?
