By Fred Jackson and Chad Groening
Another major news agency is under fire for its coverage of Iraq.
CNN has been in the spotlight in the last couple weeks after its chief news executive confessed that he withheld details of atrocities going on in Iraq for 12 years. Critics say it resulted in viewers getting a false impression of just how bad things were under Saddam Hussein.
Also, a former CNN correspondent has gone public on how the network deliberately compromised the truth of some of its stories from Iraq, in order to stay on the good side of the Saddam regime.
Now comes criticism of Disney-owned ABC News and its coverage of Iraq. Pro-family advocate Gary Bauer says in watching the network's war stories one day this week, literally every one was negative and intended to send the message that everything bad occurring in Iraq is America's fault.
“Sadly, American liberals are no longer able to imagine that anything America does could possibly come out right,” Bauer says in his daily release to the public. “And I suspect they will stay in this funk until the next time a liberal Democrat sits in the Oval Office.”
And on Wednesday night's ABC newscast, the program ended with what many would consider to be a very sympathetic piece on complaints from some anti-war Hollywood celebrities who do not like how they are being treated for taking that stance. One of those celebrities is actor Tim Robbins, whose movie about a minor-league baseball player has been snubbed by professional baseball because of Robbins' criticism of the war in Iraq.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is canceling a film festival because of the anti-war stances of two actors. It was to be the 15th anniversary celebration of the film Bull Durham, a baseball movie made in 1988.
But according to Associated Press, the Hall's president, Dale Petroskey, has cancelled the event because of recent comments by two of the film's actors: Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.
In a letter to the two actors, Petroskey wrote “we believe your very public criticism of President Bush at this important and sensitive time in our nation's history helps undermine the U.S. position which ultimately could put our troops in even more danger.”
Robbins and Sarandon, his long-time partner, have been active in the “peace rallies” to protest the war in Iraq. Robbins responded to the Hall of Fame's decision by calling baseball “a Republican sport.”
Petroskey was a former White House assistant Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
