During the final evening broadcast at 11 p.m., the story moved on to whether Washington has changed since Obama took office. Cate opened this segment with this comment: “This is the second time I’ve been to the White House to speak to the President and he was very candid this time around as, frankly, he always is….”
Not surprisingly, Obama says he has made the federal government more efficient and has eliminated or changed more than 500 federal rules. The entire segment is 3 minutes, 18 seconds. Obama speaks, uninterrupted, for nearly two minutes.
It was a great night for Obama. Not a great night for the viewers of WFLA, who deserved to have a more balanced report.
This article lacks context, not to mention a response from WFLA.
It would be interesting to read a few grafs about the nightly report direct from the Republican National Committee we're subjected to on each of the network news shows. These couldn't possibly be more partisan, and reach a far wider audience. The minutes-of-airtime count is staggeringly in favor of the GOP.
It would be interesting if each network would precede any political report with the phrase, "Full disclosure, today this network is running XX political ads, for which we were paid $XX,XXX. "
#1 Posted by Fred Ghirardini, CJR on Mon 20 Feb 2012 at 11:45 AM