CNN's Toobin and Bernstein Deride Attacks on the Media |
| Published: September 4, 2008, 1:09 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, media bias debate, carl bernstein, jeffrey toobin, cnn, other cnn, convention watch |
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During CNN's Wednesday night coverage of the Republican National Convention, the topic of recent criticisms of the mainstream media came up on more than one occasion with Jeffrey Toobin declaring the accusations "unbecoming" and "ironic" Carl Bernstein claiming the media is always pointed to as the problem "when you're down." In between speeches by former governors Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, Anderson Cooper brought up the attacks on the media which, Cooper noted, is "something we certainly have heard before." CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin responded by proclaiming: "But there is a delicious irony about John McCain attacking the media. There is no politician in recent American history who has gotten better, more adoring press coverage than John McCain throughout his career." After noting that Senator John McCain used to call the media his "base," Toobin went into attack mode against McCain and the Republican [ Full article ] |
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