Media Matters - Cheney hunting accident

Media Matters - Cheney hunting accident http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/cheney_hunting_accident This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Cheney hunting accident en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America With Cheney hunting accident, media again ignored pattern of Bush purporting to take high road while surrogates smear targets http://mediamatters.org/items/200602220002 Vice President Dick Cheney's recent hunting accident offered yet another example of an unmistakable pattern with the Bush administration, which few in the media have noted. When faced with potential political damage stemming from its actions or decisions, the Bush White House attacks those fomenting the criticism; Cheney or President Bush then take to the airwaves and appear to temper the debate -- while benefiting from whatever discrediting their surrogates' smears brought on their targets. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602220002 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:55:50 EST Fox's Hume congratulated himself for kid-gloved Cheney interview http://mediamatters.org/items/200602210002 On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume praised his own work -- the interview with Vice President Dick Cheney in Cheney's first public appearance since accidentally shooting his hunting partner -- saying "my job was to simply sit there and walk through this episode with him and ask all the relevant questions." In fact, Hume neglected to ask a number of relevant questions, as Media Matters for America has previously noted. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602210002 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:37:20 EST Media employ verbal gymnastics to avoid saying "Cheney shot hunting partner" http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170013 Numerous media outlets and commentators have gone to great lengths to avoid using some version of the simplest construction to describe Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner, Harry Whittington: Cheney shot Whittington. Instead, the media have come up with alternative formulations that have the effect of distancing Cheney from the incident. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170013 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:55:42 EST Media pronounce Cheney shooting story "over"; declare he "stopped the political damage," despite lingering questions, contradictions http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170012 In recent days, media figures pronounced the story surrounding Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner "over," despite several unanswered questions regarding the incident and contradictory statements offered by Cheney and hunting party host Katharine Armstrong, whom Cheney said he designated to first report the incident. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170012 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:20:37 EST NY Times, LA Times ignored questions regarding Cheney accident witness Armstrong http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170009 In February 17 articles about the incident last week in which Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting companion, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times uncritically reported that the local sheriff department stated that the account of events offered by Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch where the incident happened, agrees with Cheney's version of events. Neither newspaper noted that some of Armstrong's statements regarding the presence of alcohol and Whittington's ability to speak after the incident have been contradicted by Cheney. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170009 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:53:29 EST Limbaugh falsely claimed that Cheney said he drank beer "five hours before going hunting" http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170005 Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that Vice President Dick Cheney "admit[ted] that he had a beer five hours before going hunting" on the day he accidentally shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington. In fact, Cheney acknowledged that he "had a beer at lunch" and "didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3 p.m." http://mediamatters.org/items/200602170005 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:54:48 EST Hume baselessly asserted that Cheney chose Fox for interview because of its high ratings, rather than because it is "associated with conservative causes" http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160013 Recounting an exchange with a network news "crew," Brit Hume said that crew members attributed Cheney's choice of Hume as his interviewer for his February 15 appearance on Fox News -- Cheney's first since he accidentally shot a hunting companion -- to Fox's association with "conservative causes." Hume dubiously claimed that Cheney had chosen Fox "probably because he wanted to go with ... the news channel with the largest audience." In fact, the broadcast network news programs each have at least three times Fox's highest average audience. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160013 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:48:09 EST Couric failed to question Matalin on earlier statements absolving Cheney of blame in shooting; echoed Matalin's account of shooting's disclosure http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160012 NBC Today host Katie Couric failed to question Republican strategist Mary Matalin regarding remarks she and other surrogates of Vice President Dick Cheney previously made absolving him of blame in the accidental shooting of his hunting companion, despite Cheney's admission that he was solely to blame for the accident. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160012 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:21:03 EST Media declared that Cheney took responsibility for shooting, failed to note that his supporters had first put blame on victim http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160011 Following Vice President Dick Cheney's exclusive February 15 interview with Fox News' Brit Hume, the media widely reported that he took "full responsibility" for accidentally shooting Harry Whittington while hunting. But numerous news outlets have ignored that Cheney's acceptance of responsibility contradicts his friends' prior statements that Whittington was to blame. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160011 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:13:29 EST O'Reilly condemned Dowd criticism of Cheney, failed to note that she was right http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160009 Bill O'Reilly attacked The New York Times' Maureen Dowd for criticizing the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney in her latest column because, O'Reilly said, Dowd "claims the White House is blaming the guy who got shot." In fact, as Dowd wrote, "[White House press secretary] Scott McClellan told the White House press corps that Katharine Armstrong, a lobbyist with government ties who owns the Texas ranch ... 'pointed out that the protocol was not followed by Mr. [Harry] Whittington when it came to notifying the others that he was there.' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160009 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:04:13 EST USA Today miscast criticism of Cheney's silence on hunting accident as coming only from Democrats http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160008 A February 15 USA Today article suggested that criticism of Vice President Dick Cheney's decision to withhold information concerning his accidental shooting of a hunting companion came only from Democrats. But a separate article in the same edition of USA Today noted that the conservative National Review was also critical of Cheney's handling of the shooting, and other newspapers also have quoted conservatives and Republicans criticizing the vice president. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160008 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:23:39 EST Media failed to report contradiction in Cheney's and Armstrong's alcohol claims http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160007 Reporting on Vice President Dick Cheney's admission that he had consumed "a beer at lunch" prior to accidentally shooting a hunting companion, numerous media outlets failed to report that Cheney's admission contradicted earlier statements by Katharine and Anne Armstrong, co-owners of the ranch where the accident occurred, who had said that Dr. Pepper was served with lunch and "heavily implied," according to The New York Times, that "no alcohol was served at all." http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160007 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:44:33 EST Cheney's exclusive interview with Fox pays off; FNC withholds video of Cheney's drinking acknowledgment, ignores key questions http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160003 In airing Brit Hume's interview with Vice President Dick Cheney, Fox News omitted Cheney's comments about drinking a beer the day he shot his hunting companion. Fox News even excluded the comments from what it said was the "full interview" posted on its website. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160003 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:11:13 EST CNN's Phillips, Malveaux uncritically reported that Cheney accepted responsibility for hunting accident http://mediamatters.org/items/200602150015 On CNN's Live From..., anchor Kyra Phillips and White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported that, in an interview conducted with Fox News that day, Vice President Dick Cheney accepted full responsibility for accidentally shooting Texas attorney Harry Whittington during a February 11 hunting expedition. However, both Phillips and Malveaux failed to note that Cheney reportedly has been telling friends privately that Whittington was at fault and that Katharine Armstrong, whom he had designated to report the incident to the media, blamed Whittington for the accident. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602150015 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:54:49 EST Media left unanswered questions about sheriff's investigation and conclusions in Cheney shooting incident http://mediamatters.org/items/200602150014 Media reports regarding when the Kenedy County Sheriff's department actually interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney have varied widely and have sometimes conflicted, a fact that the media themselves have largely ignored. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602150014 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:18:47 EST