Filed under: Journalism, Arianna Huffington, Howard Kurtz, Mike Huckabee, ABC
Howie Kurtz, the media writer for the Washington Post, today uncovers a fishy relationship between a journalism giant and a liberal blog. While Kurtz didn’t make much wind about it, he reveals within an item about GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee that the Huffington Post and ABC News have teamed up to report the news.
“ABC, working with the Web site, interviewed a former parole board member who said Huckabee had pressed the panel to release the convict, Wayne Dumond,” Kurtz writes regarding a well-referenced story the Huffington Post published last week.
The quote raises an important question: How common is it for an apparently nonpartisan news source to team up with an admittedly liberal Web site in reporting a news item? Isn’t this a case of liberal media bias at its worst?
Also raising questions about the news relationship, Kurtz quotes Huckabee as saying he’s “amazed” that ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross ignored information he provided to him.
Earlier: Top ABC News Investigative Journalist’s Tactics Called Into Question
If this is true, we should stop watching ABC news because they couldn’t possibly be impartial and objective.
Look for a connection to Justin Rood — used to work for Talking Points Memo.
Guess they’ll be following NBC down the drain.
It’s amazing how the conservatives throw a fit when something like this comes out but say nothing of Fox news which is blatantly right wing and skews ALL of their news accordingly.
But everyone knows Fox is biased. Not everyone knows ABC is.
[…] But remember folks: Fox News is the partisan hack network. Not the networks, ya know, actually teaming up with Liberal blogs to attack Republicans. Howie Kurtz, the media writer for the Washington Post, today uncovers a fishy relationship between a journalism giant and a liberal blog. While Kurtz didn’t make much wind about it, he reveals within an item about GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee that the Huffington Post and ABC News have teamed up to report the news. […]
[…] Posted by crushliberalism on December 10, 2007 I’m no fan of Huck, as you folks here know. But there’s one thing I’m less fond of, and that’s media bias. Here, we have a clear-cut case of bias, and Kurtz doesn’t even bat an eyelash over it. From Big Head DC: Howie Kurtz, the media writer for the Washington Post, today uncovers a fishy relationship between a journalism giant and a liberal blog. While Kurtz didn’t make much wind about it, he reveals within an item about GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee that the Huffington Post and ABC News have teamed up to report the news. “ABC, working with the Web site, interviewed a former parole board member who said Huckabee had pressed the panel to release the convict, Wayne Dumond,” Kurtz writes regarding a well-referenced story the Huffington Post published last week. The quote raises an important question: How common is it for an apparently nonpartisan news source to team up with an admittedly liberal Web site in reporting a news item? Isn’t this a case of liberal media bias at its worst? Also raising questions about the news relationship, Kurtz quotes Huckabee as saying he’s “amazed” that ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross ignored information he provided to him. […]
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/tangled_web/huffpo_and_abc_collude_whatever_72653.asp
FishbowlLA doesn’t seem to have a problem with the partnership, saying that news media outlets partner all the time. However, do unbiased news outlets, like ABC claims to be, partner with admittedly liberal blogs all the time? It seems unusual.
[…] From BigHeadDC: […]
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