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So, doesn't CBS believe in 'journalistic integrity'?
by Lost at 3:01 am EDT, Jul 26, 2008

So, I'm just going to lay this out very simply, even though in the linked video, Olbermann appears to consider this too distasteful to do more than just touch upon (and indeed, there are bigger fish to fry first).
An "interview" is supposed to be a question and answer session between a reporter and the interviewee, right? So that the reporting is basically saying, "the reporter asked this question, and the person being interviewed gave this particular answer to that question", right?
So, in what lunatic alternate dimension does this become "an interview is a creative reinterpretation of what we think we'd like this person to have said in response to these questions" and make Katie Couric's interview session with John McCain, as aired not a massive breach of journalistic integrity because basically, what they aired showed McCain giving an entirely different answer to the question asked about the troop surge.
In short, what CBS aired was decidedly fiction and "news" is supposed to be non-fiction.

McCain has problems with facts and timelines. Kinda like Reagan in his second term, after Alzheimer's started to effect him.

RE: So, doesn't CBS believe in 'journalistic integrity'?
by Dagmar at 2:29 am EDT, Jul 27, 2008

Jello wrote:
McCain has problems with facts and timelines. Kinda like Reagan in his second term, after Alzheimer's started to effect him.

I don't think this is an Alzheimer's thing. I think it was an outright lie that he told because he is just completely touting the Bush party line, no matter how separated from reality that line might be. I think CBS did us another disservice by trying to cover up that lie because it would be and was harmful to McCain's presidential bid, and his party is literally about to just come apart at the seams. Obama isn't running around talking smack about Iran and echoing the lunatic messages of the administration, he's actually already making the rounds in the Middle East and Europe trying to patch up the mess Bush has made of things, and demonstrating that he does have the diplomatic skills necessary to make this work and keep America from completely collapsing into hegemonic meltdown, and between this demonstration of ability and McCain's parroting of a president practically no one trusts at all it's just slaughtering McCain's chances at an election.

Heck, I'll even go so far as to say that IMHO this raises further the chance that Bush is going to cook something up between here and November that would give him a thin excuse to cancel the elections and stay in power, through McCain, by again raising the banner of "IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I SAY GOES, THE TERRURISTS WIN".

Even if it is just his age, we absolutely don't need a President who struggles to keep simple facts straight right now. This country is in serious trouble and we need a President who can actually make peace happen, who can get things done without lying* at every turn, and who is interested in fixing America and not spending his whole administration covering up the wrongdoings of the previous one.

* - A this point I suspect I could start a blog that solely goes into detail about each lie Bush has told us, doing one a week, and have enough material to keep going until the end of the year.

So, doesn't CBS believe in 'journalistic integrity'?
by Dagmar at 1:14 am EDT, Jul 26, 2008

So, I'm just going to lay this out very simply, even though in the linked video, Olbermann appears to consider this too distasteful to do more than just touch upon (and indeed, there are bigger fish to fry first).

An "interview" is supposed to be a question and answer session between a reporter and the interviewee, right? So that the reporting is basically saying, "the reporter asked this question, and the person being interviewed gave this particular answer to that question", right?

So, in what lunatic alternate dimension does this become "an interview is a creative reinterpretation of what we think we'd like this person to have said in response to these questions" and make Katie Couric's interview session with John McCain, as aired not a massive breach of journalistic integrity because basically, what they aired showed McCain giving an entirely different answer to the question asked about the troop surge.

In short, what CBS aired was decidedly fiction and "news" is supposed to be non-fiction.

So, doesn't CBS believe in 'journalistic integrity'?
by Mike the Usurper at 3:41 am EDT, Jul 26, 2008

In short, what CBS aired was decidedly fiction and "news" is supposed to be non-fiction.

McCain has problems with facts and timelines. Kinda like Reagan in his second term, after Alzheimer's started to effect him.