http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/cbs_evening_news This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: CBS Evening News en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200805160009 While discussing President Bush's speech to the Israeli Knesset, in which Bush stated that "some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals," Jeff Greenfield stated that "the number one fear in Israel and among some American Jews is Iran -- that's who Obama wants to talk to." However, Greenfield did not note that Defense Secretary Robert Gates reportedly stated that the United States should "sit down and talk with" Iran. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805160009 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:35:11 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804040010 During a CBS report purporting to discuss what "leads a candidate to exaggerate or be hyperbolic about his or her record," <em>Time </em>magazine's Joe Klein was quoted stating: "John McCain doesn't need to exaggerate his biography. It's a spectacular biography. But he does exaggerate the threat of Al Qaeda in Iraq." In fact, McCain's campaign has reportedly admitted McCain made at least one false claim about his "record," when he stated that "I'm the only one that said that Rumsfeld had to go." In reality, McCain never called for Rumsfeld's resignation. Further, he has admitted to making a false statement regarding Iran's involvement in training members of Al Qaeda and has repeatedly distorted the positions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804040010 Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:16:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030008 A <em>CBS Evening News </em>report on the national debt, the current level of which both anchor Katie Couric and correspondent Anthony Mason described as "mind-numbing," failed to quote a single Democrat and did not point out the extent to which deficit spending by Republican-led Congresses has contributed to the debt. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030008 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:46:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803120005 In a report on "powerful men who cheat and the women who stand stoically by them," CBS News' Nancy Cordes aired a clip of <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Sally Quinn saying, "I can only think that ambition, their own personal ambition, is part of why they stick by these men, because they are accomplished women in their own right. And so, why would a Hillary Clinton or a Silda [Wall Spitzer] stand by her man and allow herself to be humiliated unless there was something in it for her?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200803120005 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:15 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220013 Both the <em>CBS Evening News</em> and NBC's <em>Nightly News</em> repeated accusations by Sen. John McCain regarding Sen. Barack Obama's statements on Pakistan and his commitment to use public financing in the general election, without offering a response from Obama or assessing the accuracy of McCain's allegations. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220013 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:54:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300005 Reporting on Republican presidential candidates' final days of campaigning before the Florida primary, Kelly Cobiella of CBS and John Berman of ABC both noted that John McCain criticized Mitt Romney for attacking opponents who "are moving up and succeeding." Neither, however, reported that McCain has been airing attack ads against Romney even while denouncing negative campaigning. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300005 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:19:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801220011 CBS' Nancy Cordes reported that Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney aired Spanish-language campaign ads in Florida, but at no point did Cordes note that Giuliani has said that English proficiency should be a requirement for citizenship, or that Romney has said that "English needs to be the language that is spoken in America." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801220011 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:06:55 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801180009 The <em>CBS Evening News</em> and CNN's <em>The Situation Room</em> noted Sen. John McCain's opposition to displays of the Confederate flag, but did not report that during the campaign for the South Carolina Republican primary in 2000, McCain had equivocated on whether the flag should fly atop South Carolina's state Capitol. Nor did the reports mention McCain's subsequent admission his equivocation "was an act of cowardice" and that he had "broke[n] [his] promise to always tell the truth" in order to try to "win the South Carolina primary" in 2000. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801180009 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:55:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160008 In their coverage of the Michigan Republican primary, numerous media outlets and personalities praised Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain as a "maverick" who has challenged his party. However, as <em>Media Matters for America</em> has repeatedly documented, on several major issues, McCain has taken positions consistent with those of his party. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801160008 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:32:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712210008 In contrast with ABC's <em>World News and </em>NBC's<em> Nightly News,</em> the<em> CBS Evening News </em>has so far ignored the allegations of Jamie Leigh Jones, who has claimed that she was gang-raped by fellow employees of Kellogg, Brown and Root inside the Baghdad Green Zone in July 2005 and subsequently held under armed guard in a trailer after reporting the incident. Both ABC's<em> World News</em> and NBC's<em> Nightly News </em>reported on Jones' testimony and alleged attack. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712210008 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:13:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712130010 Responding to a question from CBS' Katie Couric, Rudy Giuliani asserted that "Iran is moving toward accomplishing the worst nightmare of the Cold War -- nuclear weapons in the hands of an irresponsible regime. And then they're threatening the use of these weapons." Although the most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran concluded with "high confidence" that Iran had "halt[ed]" its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Couric did not challenge Giuliani's assertion or ask him a follow-up question about his answer. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200712130010 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:22:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712120003 On the <em>CBS Evening News</em>, Katie Couric asked Mitt Romney "why he didn't spend more time explaining the tenets of his Mormon faith in his speech last week." Romney replied: "I can't imagine doing that in a speech as you're running for president. ... [T]hat would really open the door to the kind of religious test where people would listen and say, 'OK, do I believe that?' " He later stated that "[n]o religious test should ever be required for qualification for office in these United States." But Couric did not note that Romney has repeatedly asserted that Americans "want a person of faith to lead them." http://mediamatters.org/items/200712120003 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:08:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709260015 On September 22, the <em>Politico </em>reported that Mitt Romney "has remained mum on the alleged killing of 11 Iraqis by a company where one of his top advisers serves as vice chairman, even as the case has led to an uproar in Baghdad and Washington. ... The top counterterrorism and national security adviser to Romney's presidential campaign is Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA." But despite prominent reports by the five major newspapers and the three networks on the Iraqi Interior Ministry revoking Blackwater USA's license, none of those outlets has reported on Romney's connection to Blackwater or his refusal to comment on the matter. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709260015 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:37:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210015 In reports on President Bush's latest threat to veto legislation increasing funding by $35 billion for a health plan for poor children, neither NBC's <em>Nightly News</em>, ABC's <em>World News</em>, nor the <em>CBS Evening News</em> noted that Bush's alternative proposal -- a $5 billion expansion over five years -- would, according to the Congressional Budget Office, underfund the program by approximately $9<strong><a href="#note">*</a></strong> billion. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210015 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:25:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709200009 The September 19 editions of ABC's <em>World News</em> and NBC's <em>Nightly News</em> both reported on Senate Republicans' blocking of a Democratic amendment stipulating that U.S. troops could be redeployed only after receiving home leave equal in duration to their most recent combat deployment, but that evening's edition of the <em>CBS Evening News</em> did not. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709200009 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:26:34 EST