[David]

After watching all the TV anchors covering the war, I must say I think this guy Aaron Brown on CNN is terrible.

He always has a weird look on his face; his voice is whiny; he asks dumb questions; and worse of all -- he comes across to me as being biased against the USA!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I like retired general Wes Clark who often works with Aaron Brown -- but it appears that even Gen. Clark can't stand this guy!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Am I wrong?

Just my 2 cents...

Who do you think the worst TV anchor covering the war is?

[ahadams]

Brown is bad, but Peter Jennings is so condescendingly unAmerican I think he should be sent back to Canada. Problem is my friends in Canada are begging us NOT to send him back. [hint here folks: there are a LOT of folks in Western Canada who do NOT think that eliminating SH and company are bad ideas!]

[Blackhawk]

During the Clinton impeachment timeframe, it came out that Jennings had a hot and heavy long term live in romance with that Palestinian woman who often speaks on behalf of the PLO. Don't remember her name right now, but she pops up on TV every now and then.

CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC are not welcome in my home. :fire:

[Justin]

I was thinking the same thing, Aaron Brown is not only a nitwit, he is ill-suited to being a television news anchor. The reason became blatantly clear when he mentioned that his background was radio. Radio personalities rarely make for good television hosts.

He's also blatantly biased, though, unlike Shepard Smith, he'd probably get his undies in a knot if you pointed it out. He interviewed Michael Moore after his Oscar debacle, and did everything short of fellating him. Brown pointed out several times that he and Mikey were friends, as if it weren't completely obvious from his choice of softball questions.

[10-Ring]

I've been glued to Fox News, but was curious about the top 3. So I spent a couple minutes watching CBS, NBC & ABC. Tom Brokaw & NBC was the least tolerable, I am so thankful for cable!

[JackM]

Lloyd Robertson on CTV (Canada). He's a Lieberal spindoctor. This is typical of him. He tries to get General Lewis MacKenzie to say that the Americans are going down to certain defeat. General MacKenzie replies that he's be very happy if he was running the show and making this much progress. Lloyd just babbles on as if he never heard the General.

Bye
Jack

[Wildalaska]

Aaaron Brown..I'd rather chow down in the cat box than be forecd to recognize he breathes the same air as I..

Wild:barf: Alaska

[Schuey2002]

Aaron Brown, for the reasons listed above.

Rita Cosby. She doesn't do that bad of a job overall, I just can't stand her voice. Call me shallow.:o

[firestar]

Aaron Brown!!!! I'm glad its not just me who can't stand this guy. He talks soooo slow when the camera is on him that it looks like he is trying to monopolize the spot light. I also don't like how he is always playing with his chin like a intellectual. He is condensending and comes across as a snide petty worm. I wonder if his co-workers are as sick of him as we are? Probably not, look who he works with, Wolf Blizter (tool) and Chistian Amampour (dip stick).

None of this is politically minded, it is just how annoying they are. I think CNN has really dropped the ball on this war, they are doing a lousy job except for the guys they have up in the North of Iraq, that is cool.

[Calamity Jane]

I have two words for y'all:

Fox News!

Just reading your accounts of CNN, et al's coverage of the war is making my stomach ache... :barf:

;)

[firestar]

Fox News is good because I have heard things there that the other stations don't ever speak about. For the first time since the war started, I heard a number of Iraqi casualities (35,000). I have been watching since the first day of the war and today was the first mention of Iraqi losses.:banghead: I was begining to think we were the only ones that were lossing anyone.:cuss:

Fox News makes me feel better when I watch it but I can also see that they are conservativly biased. Fox News is good for Joe Sixpack to watch because it is patriotic and good for the war effort but if you want to get a clear picture of what is going on, you need other sources. I like BBC World News because they are not as sensationalistic as the major news networks.

[Calamity Jane]

Quite so, Firestar. One should always get his/her news from a variety of sources. :)

[cratz2]

I admit that I watch very little TV. Call me paranoid or say that I live in denial. I don't trust anyone, news casts the least and there is just too much reality TV interfering with my searches for Welcom Back Kotter and All In The Family reruns to try to sift through the images that burn my eyes on network or cable TV. A&E, History and TLC are the only beacons I see.

Jennings and Brokaw were deemed worthless long ago. I think Dan Rather is a good man but I can't say that he always keeps me awake. And the few times I've watched Aaron Brown, well, I'm not sure who he slept with to get that anchor position that he is so clearly not ready for, but , suprisingly, I see he is still able to sit down.

[longeyes]

Aaron Brown. That infuriating, ever-present, "Cheshire Cat" smirk.

[pdh]

Don't know. All I watch is FOXNEWS and their all good.

[MrKandiyohi]

I'm happy to report that I didn't know who this Aaron Brown is. I had to go to CNN.com to find a photo of him. Shows how often I watch CNN.

For some reason, my sat dish doesn't get CNN on it. It may be due to atmospheric disturbances or that I don't punch in channel 200 on my receiver. Hmmmm, might be the latter.

[foghornl]

Aaron Brown...that guy leans so far left I'm surprised he doesn't fall over.

I don't punch in channel 200 on my receiver Or maybe your dish receiver has a very good Commy BS filter installed



:evil:

[TheEgg]

While Brown is horrible, Jennings has been tops on my list for a long time. High school drop-out that is convinced he could run the whole world perfectly if the rest of us idiots just got out of his way.:barf:

[2dogs]

FOX for the real news.

MSNBC in a pinch, and during commercials on FOX (anybody notice none of them had commercials on the first couple of days of the war?).

Have not watched any other networks- refuse to watch CNN even for laughs.:barf:

[OF]

Brit Hume on Fox is the only talking head I can deal with. The rest of them make me sick.

- Gabe

[seeker_two]

Steve Doocy on "Fox & Friends"...

I don't care to watch the other networks...

[Smoke]

If I have to see Ted Koppel in his KEvlar and fatigues on more time I'm going to :barf:

Most of the major networks are intolerable. None of the reprting I've seen is worth a dime.:scrutiny:

Actual fighting is often referred to as a stall in the advance?:cuss:

Most of the reporters no less about the military and its actions than I do. And I don't know much.

I'd rather the military PR department was riding with a network cameraman, at least it would sound intelligent even if it wasn't factual.:D

[CMichael]

During the Clinton impeachment timeframe, it came out that Jennings had a hot and heavy long term live in romance with that Palestinian woman who often speaks on behalf of the PLO. Don't remember her name right now, but she pops up on TV every now and then.

Ashrawi.

[coonan357]

hey don't pick on Ted at least he has some Ba**s to be out there not like jennings sitting comfy in new york .. i would like to see jennings on the front of an Abrahms as a hood ornamant .. all you would here him say is MOMMMYYY!!!!! :D :D

[longeyes]

Koppel in Kevlar and fatigues is like Snoopy Dukakis in tank gear. This affronts Nature.

I once saw Jennings do a live feed in front of the Pantheon in Rome back when he was a mere correspondent. It was all about Peter in his dashing foreign correspondent trenchcoat. He was a poseur then, he's a poseur now, only even more pompous.

When I see Aaron Brown smirk I get the same feeling I get when I see Jimmy Carter lick his lips.

Don't get me started, it's too early in the morning.:D

[.45TCB]

A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that FOX News has been running commericials for CNN? The first time, I thought maybe I had switched channels and forgotten, but the onscreen guide showed that I was on Fox. I've seen a cuople of others since then.

What's up with that? I know that networks take money from wherever they can, but ads for your direct competitior?

[Greybeard]

Can I deviate a bit and "accentuate the positive" by nominating Fox's desert-based Jennifer Eccelson as "easiest to look at" ? :D

[OF]

Seconded.

- Gabe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

THR's Chairborne Rangers in association with the Strategic Armchair Command (motto: "Death from the Couch") hereby present Jennifer Eccleston, Miss 'Shock & Awe' 2003.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120495/images/2003/03/21/Copy%20of%20eccleston.jpg

NOTE: all the funny parts in the above paragraph were unashamedly plagarized from other sources.

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Diane Sawyer. ABC's Chief Emoting Officer.

- pdmoderator

[Steel]

to send feedback to the Clinton News Network:


http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

[Bainx]

In my opinion, Dan Rather is one of the worst pieces of liberal slime to ever cower over the sidewalks of hades.

[Mal H]

I also give FNC top honors in coverage. But I also think NBC has been giving good balanced coverage as well. Even Libby Couric has at least been very supportive of the troops. I haven't watch one minute of news on CNN/ABC/CBS for years; it's much better than taking high blood pressure meds.

[M1911]

The worst? There's no contest at all. The worst anchor is clearly Gunga Dan Rather.

[Greybeard]

Thanks Gabe. In my view, the motion carried. ' Guess the least I could do is learn to spell her name correctly ... :)

[Blackhawk]

Jennifer Eccleston may be a Desert Fox....

But she's only been with Fox since January.

Her previous employer is CNN, I believe.... :barf:

[XLMiguel]

All n' all, I prefer Fox News (except Geraldo). This AM they were interviewing some of the wounded GIs vis a vis the protestors in NYC. A young Sgt allowed as how the protestors were personally annoying, but that they were entitled to express their opinions, and that freedom was part of what he was fighting for (class act, that).

The newsfolk went on to point out that the protestors were the Communist something-or-others, the Socialist buttmunches-of-a-color, and the Psychoanalists for Social Responsibilties, so you don't need to take it too seriously. You got to love it!!

Overall, I think the media is doing sort of OK, though some haven't embraced the notion that they are there to REPORT the news, not 'be' the news, Aaron Brown, who needs to suck on an 81mm, comes to mind.

As long as I'm blathering, I will add that I'm pretty sick of the media promoting the whining aspect of how much everyone misses their loved ones. War sucks. There is a huge amount of courage, sacrifice, and suffering that comes with it. And by the way, victory seems to want its share of all that, and then some. I would much prefer that the media woudl glorify the achievement, rather that wallowing in how hard it is (deceased equine flagilation). If it were easy, it would have ben done by now. God bless and hold our troops, may they come home safe and whole, soon.:fire:

[ACP230]

Deport Peter Jennings NOW!

[Sodbuster]

retired general Wes Clark
What's the scoop on this guy? Is there substance to him? I only know of him as a Friend of Bill and fellow Rhodes scholar. Two strikes against him already.

[Blackhawk]

Perfumed prince. Enough said.

[Blackhawk]

Except that I'll also say that Wesley Clark was the NATO Commander of the infamous Bosnia Bombing Bunglefuss. An egomaniacal bungler and sycophant of Bill Clinton.

[Flatfender]

Dan "Talks...like...William...Shatner..." Rather :barf:

[AQUAJOE]

Funny that this was asked. My wife and I were talking about this tonight.

We both agree that Aaron Brown is the worst. He is so annoying.


And thats all I have to say about that.:cuss:

[Preacherman]

.45TCB, to answer your question: almost certainly, that advertisement for CNN was not screened by Fox News, but rather by your local cable or satellite company. The service providers contract for advertising space on their own, and replace the advertising feed from the channel content provider with their own advertisements from time to time. This is part of their standard agreement with the content provider, I'm afraid. So, although Fox News probably doesn't like it, CNN can buy advertising time on the Fox cable channel from a local service provider!

[Zander]

Rather is, simply, mentally-unbalanced.

Jennings...the smarmy, condescending, hypocritical bastard who makes millions a year in a country he clearly despises with a passion...has no such excuse.

I'd gladly contribute to a fund to buy out his contract and send him packing to Hanan Ashrawi's arms. Let the two media-whores console each other in the enlightened Middle East.

[Zorro]

Hell I watched CBS for 60 seconds and He almost convinced me that Iraq was winning!

Almost.

CBS = Communist Broadcast System.

[ravinraven]

Hey, Schuey2002! How dare you bad-mouth that golden mouth and its turn-on voice! I thought I was being shallow for having the hots for a voice and then you say you are afraid you're shallow because you don't like it. This is all so confusing!

Seriously, I read all these posts with a growing feeling of satisfaction that I watch FOX NEWS 99% of my news watching time. Some of them may be a tiny bit conservative, but leaning in their indicated direction isn't going to make you dangerous to America and liberty.

And old Shep Smith does things with the language that it was never meant to do.

The only drawback to FOX is that fri**ing music! It sounds like a train load of pianoes falling down an endless stairwell to the tune of infinite out-of-tune blaring truck horns. They should haul that CD back to the store and pick up a nice Willy Nelson or something. No Ditzy Chicks though.

ravinraven

[Schuey2002]

Hey, Schuey2002! How dare you bad-mouth that golden mouth and its turn-on voice! I thought I was being shallow for having the hots for a voice and then you say you are afraid you're shallow because you don't like it. This is all so confusing!
I just don't care for her voice.:o It's just too 'fluffy' for my tastes. I'd rather listen to Patti Ann Browne (that is too weird :uhoh:,we have the same last name, :what: this is getting creepy), than listen to Rita.

:D

[seeker_two]

Give me Molly Hannenberg, Kieran Chechney (sp?), and Juliet Huddy any day...:D

[twoblink]

Which of the news reporters are Canadians??

Brown wins in the stupidity contest though; but there are quite a few close on his tail.

"The one moving his mouth" would seem to be my vote..

[BigG]

When I see Aaron Brown smirk I get the same feeling I get when I see Jimmy Carter lick his lips. Ugh. Why'd you have to say that just after I'd eaten? :uhoh:

[Schuey2002]

Which of the news reporters are Canadians??
Peter Jennings (who was born in Toronto, Ontario) is the only one that I'm aware of..
Kieran Chechney
Are you referring to .. Kiran Chetry.

Lets not forget about the lovely.. Alicia Acuna. :D

[mons meg]

Aaron Brown could use some work. I tried to watch some Fox news coverage, but they employ Geraldo, and Bill O'Reilly makes my stomach turn. On the bright side, CNN has canceled Connie Chung Tonight as well as Talkback Live...the two worst shows they had.

Say what you want about CNN, but their "embeds" have the best assignments. 7th Cav...15th MEU...I mean Koppel is riding along with the main part of the 3rd ID while the CNN no-name guy is up front with the armored scouts.

Also, I think CNN's military analysts have a bit more "street cred". The lowest ranking analyst I have seen is Col Hackworth, and he has one hell of a fruit salad on his chest. The only guy I saw on Fox was a captain...

[Thumper]

Aaron Brown has gotten too hard to watch. I usually use the "recall" button on the remote to go to CNN during commercials on FoxNews. Not when 'ol Aaron's on, though.

My favorite pair are Laurie Dhue (mmmmmm, dreamy) and that fast talking speed freak Col. Hunt.

Rita Crosby is ruining FoxNews for me...in one ten minute period, she explained how A-10s and then F-117s were flying in from carriers.

[444]

I have been off for about a week and also haven't been feeling good, so I have been putting in a lot of time watching war coverage and surfing the net. I prefer FOX, but MSNBC is also good. My faviorite so far is Jessie Ventura.

[Sean Smith]

Fox REALLY lays on the cheesecake, don't they?

Anyway, unfortunately Fox folks really aren't any smarter than the MSNBC or CNN people. Quality of coverage and "analysis" seems about the same to me, i.e. pretty lame. All of them are pretty much perfectly ignorant of all things military. What makes Fox more watchable for me is the fact that the people, while dopey journalists, don't seem as morally offensive to me as the alternatives. Not so much because they are conservative, but because they don't seem to smack their chops with glee whenever something happens that they can misconstrue as a military "setback." :rolleyes:

That, and the hot women. :evil:

[seeker_two]

Are you referring to .. Kiran Chetry.

http://www.foxnews.com/images/21345/4_22_200x300_bio_kiranchetry.jpg

Yep. Guess I got too involved w/ the news to spell her name correctly...:evil:

[Shalako]

This schmuck flat out turns my stomach. I now use his name as a synonym for anything disgusting and reviled. An example of which would be, lets say, an impromptu case of diarheah in one's pants. i.e. "Honey, I just had another Jennings. :( "

The other day, with his condecending smirk and tone, he droned on about the M1 Abrams, "Isn't it true that it is the biggest gas guzzler in the world?" And I am somehow supposed to assume he is for the American effort in Iraq? :rolleyes:

Ahhhhhh!

I'm about to Jennings again just tinking about that @#$*&%!!!

[Blackhawk]

The only guy I saw on Fox was a captain...
Actually, Fox has a pile of generals. (A Navy captain is the equivalent of a bird Colonel, BTW.) However, one of the best is a retired Special Forces major named Bob Bacalava or something like that.

[Greybeard]

444 Quote: "I have been off for about a week and also haven't been feeling good, so I have been putting in a lot of time watching war coverage ... "

' Am with ya there, friend, but have sorta recognized that too much of the tube in these times makes me grumpy quick. :( Maybe time for a little more of the great outdoors? ;)

[Coronach]

(Ret.) Maj.Bob Bevalaqua, IIRC.

Back before Iraq and possibly before Afghanistan, they were using him as a talking head to discuss terrorism and security. THe anchor asked the question we all love to ask here, "But is there any way that the government can protect everyone, everywhere?" he responded:"No. Thats why I'm proud to be a gunowner."I am not joking, and I nearly fell off my Nordictrack.

Anyway:

Worst? No idea. I'm so very not watching anyone but FNC.

Best?

For substance: Neil Cavuto, O'Reilly (not really an anchor), Sean Hannity (same).

For looks, with zero liability in the substance deptartment: Linda Vester, for some reason. And I don't even like blondes.

The only downside of all of this news coverage is that its been awhile since I last saw my girl from NBC4 (now at FNC), Dari Alexander. mmmmmmmm...purty.

[/neanderthal]

Mike

[Mr. Fixit]

Neck and neck between Arrogant Brown and Peter Lemmings.

[Schuey2002]

(Ret.) Maj.Bob Bevalaqua, IIRC.
One of the best moments that I've ever seen on cable news involved the Major.

Right after 9/11 he was on a FNC show ( I forgot which one ) where the discussion was about security and how to protect a building such as the one they were filming in..

He was sitting there not saying much as the host ( Shep, I believe) was gabbing away about security issues when the Major suddenly opens up his jacket and plops a M4/CAR-15 type rifle on the news desk. :what: He looks over at the host and says something to the fact that he snuck the rifle into the building without anyone noticing..

Now, that's something that you'll never see on the Tailwind Network!!:D

[Blackhawk]

Cool! I knew I liked Major Bob, and that's one of the reasons I didn't even know about! :D

[TheeBadOne]

Dan Rather by a landslide. :barf:

[ahadams]

okay, okay, MAJ B. just went up a couple of notches in my book. I'd written him off as another former special operator with only a limited understanding above the operational level, but hey, on air demonstrations of reality count for big points!

[sig970]

Peter Arnett: Traitor

[bad_dad_brad]

The blathering ignorant rubber faced "what is the frequency Kenneth" Dan Rather, and the condescending ever smirking Canadian Peter Jennings are the worst anchors. A disgrace to network television, both of them.

Where is Howard Beal, the mad prophet of the air waves, when you need him?

[Coronach]

Yeah, I think Peter Arnett just 'elevated' himself from "stupid but irrelevant" to "stunningly stupid, criminal, traitorous, and irrelevant."

Way to go, Pete! In the Great Limbo Dance of Journalism, you just lowered the bar one more notch. :rolleyes:

Mike

[David]

After hearing (on FOX) what Peter Arnet said in his "interview" on Iraqi TV, in my opinion, his mouth is a "weapon of mass destruction"!

:cuss: :cuss: :cuss:

[2dogs]

NBC's Peter Arnett:
War plan has failed
Controversial reporter tells Iraqi TV
of growing opposition in U.S. to war

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: March 31, 2003
6:00 a.m. Eastern


By Joe Kovacs
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Peter Arnett, the veteran correspondent covering his second Gulf War, says the U.S. war plan has failed and there is growing opposition in America to the conflict in Iraq.


Peter Arnett on Iraqi TV

"Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces," Arnett told Iraqi TV. "That is why now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week, and rewriting the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance now they are trying to write another war plan."

Formerly with Cable News Network, Arnett left CNN in the wake of the Tailwind reporting fiasco originally exposed by WorldNetDaily in 1998. Arnett is now a reporter for "National Geographic Explorer" and NBC News.

During his interview with the state-run television network in Baghdad, Arnett also said Iraq has given him and other journalists a "degree of freedom which we appreciate," despite the fact that several reporters including CNN's Baghdad bureau have been expelled by Iraq, and two reporters for New York Newsday are reportedly in prison.

Arnett began the interview by praising Iraqi officials for the way they've handled journalists during both Gulf Wars:

"I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation – courtesy from your people, and cooperation from the Ministry of Information, which has allowed me and many other reporters to cover 12 whole years since the Gulf War with a degree of freedom which we appreciate. And that is continuing today."

He then told the Iraqi interviewer dressed in an army uniform about his thoughts on what was happening back in America:

"It is clear that within the United States there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war. So our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."

Arnett – who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for the Associated Press – went on to proffer his thoughts about the weakness in the U.S. stance:


I think American policy and strategy is the weakest when it comes to the Iraqi people. The U.S. administration is concerned with the possibility of killing civilians, because the international community is very concerned about the Iraqi people. President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
For that reason, the Pentagon keeps saying that the civilian casualties, particularly in Baghdad in the last three or four days, at the market places -- the Pentagon says -- well they are Iraqi missiles that land amongst the people. They keep saying that, but of course the Iraqi government says they are clearly cruise missiles that hit the population. ...

For that reason the Pentagon keeps saying that maybe it is an Iraqi missile that hit the population and not a U.S. ...

Whenever I gave a report on civilian casualties on CNN (in the first Gulf War) the Pentagon and the Bush administration got very angry and called me a traitor. ...

However, when missiles hit the Al-Maria shelter in early February of 1991, killing nearly 400 women and children, the Bush administration had to admit that they were responsible. And when that happened, there was a different attitude to the war. They had to try and complete the war fast, because the world criticized that bombing very severely.

In a prepared statement, NBC said "Peter Arnett and his crew have risked their lives to bring the American people up-to-date, straightforward information on what is happening in and around Baghdad." The network owned by General Electric said Arnett's "impromptu interview with Iraqi TV was done as a professional courtesy and was similar to other interviews he has done with media outlets from around the world. His remarks were analytical in nature and were not intended to be anything more."

Arnett gained much attention during his reporting for CNN during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, angering the first Bush administration which suggested he had become a propaganda tool for Saddam.

The military denounced him for claiming that the allied bombing of a biological weapons plant in Baghdad was a baby-milk factory.

On June 7, 1998, Arnett was the CNN reporter on a broadcast of "NewsStand" which accused U.S. army commandos of using sarin nerve gas in a top secret operation known as "Tailwind" during the Vietnam War.

The report accused Tailwind participants of using the lethal gas against American defectors who were hiding in a small village in Laos. The entire village and all in it were reportedly wiped out in about 10 minutes.

The Tailwind story was first exposed as a fraud in WorldNetDaily, and both the network and Time magazine were forced to issue apologies and retractions. Arnett subsequently left CNN when his contract was not renewed.

For the present conflict with Iraq, Arnett is working for the MSNBC show, "National Geographic Explorer." NBC began airing his reports when other reporters left the region for safety reasons.

He told April 5 issue of TV Guide he felt some redemption reporting on the current war.

"I was furious with [CNN founder] Ted Turner and [then-CNN chairman] Tom Johnson when they threw me to the wolves after I made them billions risking my life to cover the first Gulf War," Arnett told TV Guide.

"Now [Turner and Johnson] are gone, the Iraqis have thrown the CNN crew out of Baghdad, and I'm still here," he said. "Any satisfaction in that? Ha, ha, ha, ha. ...

"The Iraqis have let me stay because they see me as a fellow warrior. They know I might not agree with them, but I've got their respect."

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