Media Matters - Good Morning America

Media Matters - Good Morning America http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/good_morning_america This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Good Morning America en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America On GMA, Sawyer didn't challenge McCain's false claim that Obama said he would "attack Pakistan" http://mediamatters.org/items/200807210001 On Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer failed to challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that Sen. Barack Obama has said that as president, he would "attack Pakistan." Nor did Sawyer challenge McCain's reference to "the Iraq-Pakistan border," which does not exist. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807210001 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:16:43 EST ABC anchors asked Obama and McCain about Obama's alleged "shifting positions," but not McCain's http://mediamatters.org/items/200807100012 On the July 9 edition of Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer introduced a question to Sen. Barack Obama about Iraq by stating, "[S]ome of your core supporters have been saying that they sense that you are shifting positions, and you've gotten quite a drubbing on a couple of fronts." However, Sawyer did not ask Obama about any of Sen. John McCain's "shifting positions." In an interview that aired later that day on World News, Charles Gibson asked McCain about McCain's criticism of Obama for what Gibson characterized as "changing position on a number of ... issues" and whether McCain is "ready, yet, to call him [Obama] a flip-flopper," but did not ask McCain about McCain's reversals. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807100012 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:21:01 EST GMA's Roberts did not challenge McCain's denial that he has said he lacks expertise on the economy http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030004 ABC's Robin Roberts said to Sen. John McCain, "You have admitted that you're not exactly an expert when it comes to the economy and many have said that they," at which point, McCain said repeatedly, "I have not." Roberts did not challenge McCain's denial, even though McCain has made repeated remarks acknowledging his weakness on economic issues. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030004 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:05:45 EST Despite having to correct Ross' false claim that McCain has released tax returns, ABC still ignored McCain in report musing about Clinton tax returns http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030004 On ABC's Good Morning America, Brian Ross asserted that Sen. Hillary Clinton's "delay" in releasing tax returns "has raised a lot of questions," including "whether they paid their taxes like average Americans, or like the super-rich they have become." At no point during the segment did anyone, including Ross, who has falsely asserted that Sen. John McCain released his tax returns, question McCain's "delay." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030004 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:22:14 EST Media outlets falsely claim Obama contradicted himself regarding Wright statements http://mediamatters.org/items/200803200004 Several media figures have falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama contradicted previous statements when he said during a March 18 speech on race: "Did I ever hear him [Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor] make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in the church? Yes." In fact, Obama previously asserted he had not been present for particular statements Wright made that were repeated by various media outlets and that spurred the recent controversy. He did not claim to have never heard Wright make "remarks that could be considered controversial." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803200004 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:42:33 EST ABC repeatedly noted controversial comments by Obama's "allies," but has yet to report comments by McCain endorsers http://mediamatters.org/items/200803140013 During recent editions of Good Morning America and World News, ABC discussed and aired reports on the "explosive statements" of Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but ABC has yet to report on controversial comments by two "allies" of Sen. John McCain. For example, evangelist John Hagee has said that "Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans," and pastor Rod Parsley reportedly wrote that "America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion [of Islam] destroyed." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803140013 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:38:40 EST ABC's Ross reported Wright's 9-11 remarks -- but not that Obama disavowed them http://mediamatters.org/items/200803130008 On Good Morning America, ABC's Brian Ross reported on a 2001 sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of Sen. Barack Obama's church, in which Wright made controversial remarks regarding the 9-11 terrorist attacks. While Ross noted that Obama has said that Wright is "like an old uncle, who sometimes says things I don't agree with," at no point did Ross report that Obama has specifically disagreed with Wright's 9-11 remarks. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803130008 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:29:45 EST Media once again uncritically report McCain's criticism of Romney's negative ads without mentioning McCain's numerous ads attacking Romney http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310012 In their coverage of the January 30 Republican presidential debate, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, ABC, and National Public Radio all reported Sen. John McCain's criticism of Mitt Romney over negative campaign ads. However, none of those media outlets noted that McCain has aired numerous ads attacking Romney, despite having said that "negative campaigns don't work." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310012 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:46:45 EST On GMA, Sawyer allowed McCain to tout his "positive" New Hampshire campaign http://mediamatters.org/items/200801090003 ABC's Diane Sawyer did not challenge Sen. John McCain's claim that he "ran a positive campaign" in New Hampshire. In fact, McCain ran a negative TV ad in the state and negative Web ads about one of his opponents, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801090003 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:46:15 EST From cleavage to "cackle"? Media find new focus in coverage of Hillary Clinton http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040003 Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:29:04 EST ABC's Greenburg cast Anita Hill's allegations as charge that Thomas simply "pressured her to date him" http://mediamatters.org/items/200710020001 In a report on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, ABC News' Jan Crawford Greenburg stated simply that Anita Hill "told the FBI that, 10 years before, Thomas pressured her to date him." However, Hill has said she told the FBI agents who interviewed her "about Thomas' descriptions of pornography, the pressure for dates, [and] the discussions of his sexual activities." http://mediamatters.org/items/200710020001 Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:11:35 EST Major newspapers, network news still silent on Romney-Blackwater connection http://mediamatters.org/items/200709260015 On September 22, the Politico 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 AP, networks mum on Romney-Blackwater connection http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180014 News reports on Iraq's Interior Ministry ordering security firm Blackwater USA to leave the country following the deaths of at least eight Iraqi civilians have continued to ignore Blackwater USA vice chairman Cofer Black's role as chairman of Mitt Romney's counterterrorism policy advisory group. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180014 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:55:36 EST Stossel report again failed to identify conservative expert, did not report WHO rankings of health systems http://mediamatters.org/items/200709150001 Good Morning America aired a preview of John Stossel's "Whose Body is it Anyway? Sick in America," which contained an interview with one expert, David Gratzer, whom Stossel identified only as an author and "Canadian doctor." Stossel failed to note that Gratzer is a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute or that the World Health Organization ranks Canada and Great Britain -- whose nationalized health systems he criticized for their long waits -- ahead of the United States in its ranking of world health systems. At the end of Stossel's report, Diane Sawyer told him: "It is so hard to get perspective on this. Thank heaven you're doing it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200709150001 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:42:49 EST GMA casts Gonzales scandals as partisan: "For Democrats, it's another scalp to hang on the wall" http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280011 On Good Morning America, correspondent David Wright asserted that "[w]ere it not for the scandals, [President] Bush had hoped to make" outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court." Wright also reported that Gonzales' resignation "is being welcomed on both sides of the aisle" because "[f]or Democrats, it's another scalp to hang on the wall; and for Republicans, it's a huge distraction that now goes away." In fact, several Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for Gonzales to resign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280011 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:46:35 EST