NY Post reader Stan Strauss notices something odd about Peter Jennings coverage of Tony Blair's speech to Congress - Why is Jennings Rooting Aginst U.S. Troops?
Tony Blair's speech to the Congress was as inspiring as it was encouraging. You'd never know it to listen to ABC News' Peter Jennings ("Jennings' War," Opinion, William F. Buckley Jr., July 21).It's not mystifying at all, Stan. To be a newsreader on a major US broadcast network, you have to prove your leftoid bias every day. Dan Ratherbiased and Petey tend to take the cake, but there is even a boomlet by the usual suspects to get Tom Brokaw to run for President. As a Democrat, natch. Of course for all time leftoid winguttery, there is always Crazy Uncle Wally.
Instead of focusing on the speech and how well it was received, Jennings went right to clips of past Parliament sessions during which Blair was assailed as a "liar."
The newscast then showed man-on-the-street "interviews" of Brits denouncing Blair for England's role in Iraq. Not one supporting voice was heard.
Even when reporting on our presence in Iraq, ABC News seems to take special pains to collect negative news and air it daily: disgruntled troops whining to "go home"; vehicular accidents; a bloodied soldier, accidentally shot in the arm, receiving medical treatment; Iraqi civilians decrying our presence; water and sewage problems.
Why Jennings ever chose to become an American citizen is as mystifying as the "why" behind the editorializing that permeates this segment of "World News Tonight's" news reports.
