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"The Treasury of Knowledge excellently presents the entire corpus of the sutra and mantra traditions from the paths of the common sciences all the way up to the uncommon Great Perfection or Atiyoga, which is the culmination of the nine vehicles." —H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche
"Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé was one of the leading scholars of the nineteenth century. He broke through sectarian constraints and achieved a deep understanding of the the different philosophical approaches in Tibet. I have no doubt that by studying Kongtrul's works readers will be inspired to emulate his great qualities of humility, dedication, patience, and nonsectarianism." —H.H. the Dalai Lama
"Upon seeing the Treasury of Knowledge, the first Khyentse Rinpoche (a contemporary of Lodrö Thayé) said that it was so inclusive of all knowledge that it did not seem to be composed by a human being but must have been written through the blessing of the dakinis." —Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
"In his monumental Treasury of Knowledge, [Jamgön Kongtrül] presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. . . . By studying Kongtrül's works, readers will be inspired to emulate his great qualities of humility, dedication, patience, and nonsectarianism." —The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies
"Jamgön Kongtrül was a true saint, a great scholar, an exemplary teacher, a renowned physician, a peacemaker, and one of the most prolific writers of Tibet. The Five Great Treasuries of Kongtrül . . . enshrine all the wisdom of Tibet." —Ringu Tulku, author of The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great
"I am pleased that this volume of The Treasury of Knowledge, Esoteric Instructions, has been translated by Sarah Harding, whom I respect as an eminent and experienced translator and senior student of the late Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche—one of the five emanations of Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé himself. I highly encourage anyone interested in the study and practice of Dharma to study this text, as it holds great blessings." —Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, author of It's Up to You
"This volume of The Treasury of Knowledge presents the culmination of Jamgön Kongtrül's treatment of Buddhist meditation training, revealing the complete spectrum of the traditions of profound instructions known as the eight great practice lineages. Here, Sarah Harding has produced a masterful translation of this pithy work, augmented it with historical overviews, and provided an introduction rich in insights and background material. This book—a treasury in itself—will undoubtedly be appreciated both by scholars of comparative studies of the different systems and by practitioners wishing to broaden their knowledge of meditation methods." —Ingrid McLeod
"Jamgön Kongtrül is considered to be one of the great leaders of the nonsectarian movement in Tibetan Buddhism and his Treasury of Knowledge is considered to be one of the most important texts for reference and study in Tibetan Buddhism. Many Tibetan teachers have a compact edition of this monumental work in their travel bags in order to consult it again and again for detailed questions of all types, and not infrequently whole chapters serve as the basis for courses." —Cornelia Weishaar-Gunter
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- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
- 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, "Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd", in BBC Sport[1]:
- The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.
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- (intransitive) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
- 1977, Mina P. Shaughnessy, Errors and expectations: a guide for the teacher of basic writing:
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- 1998, Peter Vink, Ernst A. P. Koningsveld, Steven Dhondt, Human factors in organizational design and management-VI:
- Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.
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- It should be noted that the magnitude of satellites decreases when tuning out of degeneracy, and in the wavelength range of 1.2-1.3 pm it downfalls to the value of 10-15% of the main spike magnitude.
- 2008, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra:
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By Tim Sohn News Eagle Correspondent SHOHOLA- LP Cylinder, a Shohola business that refurbishes propane tanks, is building a new facility on Route 6 that will mean more jobs. The township Board of Supervisors approved preliminary conditional use and land development applications following a public hearing at its April 11 meeting, which allows the company to begin construction. Currently, LP Cylinder, owned by Maurice Ryman, is located on Route 434 on a five-acre piece of property and employs approximately 30. The company is expanding and has purchased property on Route 6 near Shohola Falls Road. According to John Fuller, a civil engineer who represents LP Cylinder, the new property consists of about 52 acres of land, and there is an existing "glorified garage and one-bedroom studio" on the property, as well as a pond. LP Cylinder will build two buildings on the property, 32,000 square feet, and 20,000 square feet. "We'll probably use it as a hub for doing the smaller cylinders such as the 20-pound barbecue tanks … The larger stuff will all go out there. The company that we met with today [April 11], we have been doing business with for 16 or 18 years, they just acquired another large company, and they told me as of today, they have a little over 8,000 100-pound bottles waiting to ship to us. We just can't do it," said Ryman. He added that he's been told he's the largest refurbisher of propane tanks in the Northeast. Keith Raser, supervisor, asked Ryman how many additional employees he will be hiring. He said approximately 15 to 20. George Fluhr Jr, chairman of the board, asked Ryman how many years he has been in business. He said he's owned the company for 36 years, and the business has been in Shohola at that location for over 40 years. Ryman said he started the project in July looking for property at the Pike County Business Park, but that didn't work out, and Shohola reached out to him asking him to stay in the township. "What's killing us right now is this permitting process with the conservation district. It's just horrible. We wrote a check for $7,000 for one permit, and $1,750 administration fees. I mean, this is crazy, and we haven't even put a shovel in the ground yet," said Ryman. Fluhr agreed. George J. Fluhr, the chairman's father, said, "I was a supervisor in Shohola Township for 30 years during the time that Mr. Ryman was in business. He has run an outstanding business. He has been consistently cooperative with the township. He got his permits, no problems, and it was a pleasure to have him as a resident. I'm pleased to see with his expansion he's staying in Shohola Township. He's an asset to the township." In other news, the supervisors: Accepted a $3,500 bid from Anthony Soto of Barryville, N.Y., for a township police vehicle. Approved the promotion of Jim Cue, currently a part-time maintenance employee, to full-time status. His previous pay was $10.80 per hour, which will be bumped up to $11.50 per hour. He will not require health benefits, according to Raser. Will send a letter to the state DEP in opposition to the proposed "Anti-Degredation Policy for On-Lot Septic Systems," which was first announced in early March. The proposed policy would affect areas with bodies of water that have high quality or exceptional value, and would mandate costly criteria for building, expanding, or establishing businesses. The policy involves nitrates that could potentially leak from septic systems to streams or lakes. Aaron Robinson of the Shohola Planning Commission spoke at a recent Upper Delaware Council meeting regarding this issue. Shohola Board of Supervisors meetings are held the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., in the Township building, 159 Twin Lakes Road.


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RECOGNITION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS by Selina Chu A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Selina Chu
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|Environmental sounds are what we hear everyday, or more generally sounds that surround us – ambient or background audio. Human utilize both vision and hearing to respond to their surroundings, a capability still quite limited in machine processing. The first step toward achieving multi-modality is the ability to process unstructured audio and recognize audio scenes (or environments). The goal of my thesis is on the characterization of unstructured environmental sounds for understanding and predicting the context surrounding of an agent or device, investigating on the development of appropriate feature extraction algorithm and learning techniques for modeling the variations of the environment. 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This approach has the ability to model the background and detect foreground events as well as the ability to verify whether the predicted background is indeed the background or a foreground event that protracts for a longer period of time. I also investigated the use of a semi-supervised learning technique to exploit unlabeled audio data.; The final components of my thesis will involve investigating on the use of deep learning as a way to obtain a generative model-based method for classification and to learn features within each type of sounds in an unsupervised manner. The inherent nature of environmental sound is noisy and contains relatively large amounts of overlapping events between different environments. Environmental sounds contain large variances even within a single environment type, and frequently, there are no divisible or clear boundaries between some types. Traditional methods of classification are generally not robust enough to handle classes with overlaps. 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Shane A. Hills needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
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Shane A. Hills, PMP(R), Certified Turnaround Professional (R). I am an IT project management consultant specializing in turning around troubled projects. This booklet cover will appear on 5.5-x.8.5 booklet. It will also be used as the front of my business card, with more detail in simple text on the back.
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It needs to reproduce easily and vertically on one side of a standard business card. But the original scale should be designed for the front cover of a 5.5-x-8.5 booklet. I want to avoid the use of camoflauge if possible. This is my first 99designs.com project. If I am happy with the work, I will probably hire the same designer to do a corporate logo. Should reproduce will in color or b/w.


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Chris123461 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Reusing grocery bags greatly reduces waste, making it an easy way to do your part and help the environment. Our grocery bags are stronger, easier and more comfortable than plastic bags. We need a logo that shares our vision with the world.
Moms, shoppers, socially conscious kitchen providers.
Basically thinking semi abstract crayon style drawing of the earth as seen from space, like this (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-452…earth.html). Then the lettering 'GroceryBagger.com' around in a circle.
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Male Mosquito (Culex pipiens)
Having a worldwide distribution, the Culex genus of mosquitoes is found on every continent except Antarctica, and includes 14 species in the United States and Canada. Commonly known as the house mosquito, the blood-sucking insect feeds on warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans, birds, and horses, and is a known carrier of several serious pathogens including viral encephalitis, filiarsis, and West Nile virus.
The female mosquito is the most infamous of the two sexes because of her craving for fresh blood, while the males do not have mouthparts suitable for piercing skin, but instead feature large, bushy antennae for locating the buzz of a potential mate. The response is species-specific, so that a male Culex pipiens will only respond to a female of his kind and not one of the other 13 species. Male mosquitoes are sustained by feeding on plant juices and flower nectar. Due to their non-blood diet, the males are not the disease vectors to warm-blooded vertebrates as are their notorious mates.
While a male mosquito may live from 10 to 20 days, the female's life span ranges from as little as 3 days up to 100 days. Larval mosquitoes ("wigglers") feed on algae and organic debris in water, and are fully-grown in 2 to 14 days, depending on the species and the water temperature. The pupae ("tumblers") can swim but do not feed, and the developing eyes, legs, and wings are visible externally. In about 1 to 14 days, again temperature dependent, the adults emerge for breeding.
In general, species in the genus Culex are weak fliers and do not usually travel more than 2 miles. In contrast, the Aedes mosquitoes are known as strong fliers, flying many miles from their breeding sites, and are painful and persistent biters, even during the day. Hairlike and featherlike appendages on the wings of the mosquito are used for better flight control. There are several hairs on the wing along each vein, and the trailing edge of the wing has a fringe of long, stiff hairs. Serving the same function as an airplane's flaps, the trailing-edge stiff hairs most probably provide greater lift for the mosquito, particularly while hovering. The wing shape and beat pattern of the female mosquito create a courtship song that is species-specific for her mate. Typically, a mosquito flaps its wings about 600 times per second. Electronic reproductions and synthesized sounds mimicking the courtship songs of mosquitoes are being applied in improved sonic insect traps and automatic electronic species identification devices.
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After a disappointing European Championships for England's much-coveted Under 21s, including players such as Wilfried Zaha and Danny Rose, much of the blame has been directed towards the coach Stuart Pearce.
Though, admittedly, Pearce's tactics were unimaginative it is hard to lay the blame solely with him. The players themselves must accept some responsibility, as well as the Premier League and the F.A. Also, perhaps part of the reason they failed to live up to expectations was the fans.
Firstly, it is time for a new manager to take the helm of the young Lions. Though I cannot deny that Pearce had been successful prior to this year's tournament, having led the side to the final of the European Championships in 2009, I feel that perhaps it is time to go in a new direction.
This tournament the side lacked any attacking threat when in and around the opposition penalty area and struggled to keep possession, even against an average-looking Israel side.
Furthermore, the primary role of the Under 21 side is to produce players for the full England side. Not only is the brand of football being played a particularly poor one that will not prepare them for the full international scene but few players have actually emerged from several games with the Under 21s and established themselves as a full international in recent years.
Jordan Henderson has amassed 27 caps for Pearce's side but is yet to establish himself in the full squad despite five senior caps. Chris Smalling has earned 14 but again is yet to fully make his mark.
However, it is not as though Pearce had a squad of world-beaters at his mercy. Although some of the players in the squad have a huge amount of potential they failed to deliver in Israel.
The dazzling Wilfried Zaha looked very average and Danny Rose, a star performer whilst on loan at Sunderland this season, failed to make many telling contributions, although his effort was evident on occasions.
This could not be said of the whole squad. All the players failed to produce performances to the standard of which they are capable.
The F.A. and the Premier League must also heed this warning of things to come unless they change their ways as well.
A number of the players on show for England - including Connor Wickham, Josh McEachran, Andre Wisdom and Nathan Delfouneso - have shown potential in abundance in the past but are not being given first-team opportunities at their clubs.
This is because of the huge pressure placed on managers to deliver top performances in the short-term, therefore expensive foreign signings are being made to match the chairmen's demands.
There is no doubt that, given time, these players could perform and flourish; however, the financial incentives offered by the Premier League encourage clubs to spend money to achieve the highest possible finish.
The sad truth is in the statistics. A measly 2.28% of minutes played in the Premier League this season was made up of English Under-21s, compared to Germany's 6.22% and France's 7.32%, according to research by BBC Sport.
In terms of total number of English players of any age in the top flight England again comes out worse than Italy, Germany Spain and France, with little over a third of top flight players being English in contrast to Bundesliga's two-thirds.
Under these conditions, English youngsters are never going to prosper and we will never compete at international level. Perhaps it is time to introduce restrictions on the number of foreign players at each club, such as in Russia and Spain, but the financial strength of the big clubs are likely to make this almost impossible.
Maybe it is our fault. Maybe, as fans, we are being unrealistic. Should we really expect a team containing a Sunderland benchwarmer (Connor Wickham, just to clarify), a Leeds United centre-back who has never played in the Premier League (Tom Lees, although he is not the only one) and a man who has spent a season - albeit an impressive one - on loan at Watford to compete with the likes of Isco, De Gea and Tello?
Perhaps we just need to accept that we have a star-studded domestic league, for which we should be grateful, but that because of this we will never compete with the best in Europe.
So maybe we shouldn't be complaining about what a catastrophic failure this was. We should be celebrating the fact that we even got there in the first place. And come next year in Brazil, anything beyond the initial Group Stages will be a momentous achievement - providing we actually qualify. We, as fans, are just being unrealistic with our dreams of semi-finals. That is the sad truth.
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(CNN) -- Injured Formula One star Felipe Massa is looking forward to taking his first steps towards driving again after passing a series of mental and physical tests in Miami.
Felipe Massa has been given the all-clear to begin training as he bids to return to the race track.
His team Ferrari reported on its Web site on Tuesday that the Brazilian, who suffered horrific head wounds in Hungary in July, had come through the tests satisfactorily on Monday.
"The checks (which included neurometric, impact and cognitive capacity tests) all had a positive outcome, just like the eye exam: everything is in order for Felipe to get back to racing," the statement said.
"Now there has just to be carried out some plastic surgery at the brain box, where the spring at the accident at the Hungaroring hit his helmet.
"The surgery will take place in the upcoming days. After a short convalescence Felipe can then gradually start with physical preparations."
The 28-year-old, who finished second in last year's drivers' world championship, said that he planned to take things slowly following the operation.
"I'm very happy about the results," he told www.Ferrari.com before returning home to Sao Paulo.
"After the small surgery, in the next few days I can finally start to go to the gym to get back into shape and drive some tests in karts.
"On the track with a Formula One single-seater? Let's take it step by step. At the moment I'm concentrating on taking up physical activities, which is a great step forward."
Ferrari said Massa was expected to be at 100 percent fitness in time for the 2010 season, but gave no indication whether he would return to racing this year -- he has, however, indicated that he would like to drive at his home Brazilian Grand Prix on October 18.
His replacement, test driver Luca Badoer, is not expected to drive at the Italian Grand Prix two weekends away after finishing last in his two races so far.
Badoer, who stepped into the breach when F1 legend Michael Schumacher was unable to make a shock return to the sport due to a neck problem, was not allowed to test drive the current Ferrari vehicle during the four-week summer break due to this year's regulations.
Veteran Italian Giancarlo Fisichella has been linked with Ferrari after finishing second at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, but his team Force India insist that he will race for them at Monza.
Highly-rated Polish driver Robert Kubica is also in the running to replace Badoer, with his team BMW Sauber dropping out of F1 at the end of this season.
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William F. Weld's return to Boston seven weeks ago seemed a twilight turn for the restless executive – a soft landing spot with a comfortable lobbying office, in a town where the waiters call him governor and his wry humor resonates with a certain generation.
That may be the case.
But another possibility has emerged. Maybe the man who had longed to be senator, ambassador, literary wit, and governor of New York has a sixth act in him. Maybe the timing, so elusive in recent years, is right again.
Consider what Weld now has before him: A Senate seat held by John F. Kerry, his one-time rival, that looks likely to open, and a Republican brand in need of a jolt.
Sure, Senator Scott Brown is the front-runner for the GOP nomination. But if there is anyone else in the GOP mix, it is certainly Weld.
Maybe the new ideas Massachusetts Republicans are seeking are really the old ideas. Maybe the next Bill Weld Republican is Bill Weld.
Weld, in an interview, said nice words about Brown and Charles D. Baker, his former cabinet secretary, who he expects will run again for governor. He downplayed a run of his own. But he playfully talked about stirring the pot.
Asked if he might run if Kerry's Senate seat opens up, the closest he would come to a denial was, "I don't think so."
Not exactly Shermanesque.
His friends said they doubt he will run, and a poll released Thursday showed Brown would have a commanding lead in a primary. But like Weld, the friends didn't rule it out. And some noted that a little speculation never hurt anyone, especially in the lobbying and corporate deal-making world, where Weld now works, splitting time between the Mintz Levin law firm, and its lobbying arm, ML Strategies.
"If you work at a major law firm with an important public strategy group, you certainly want people to know you're back in town," said Paul Cellucci, Weld's lieutenant governor and successor. "That's Business 101, if not Politics 101."
Cellucci said he isn't betting on Weld running. Then he said he has lost a lot of wagers betting on what Weld will do. "Look, he ran for governor of New York," Cellucci said, recalling Weld's 2005 effort as if it were a dare.
"He enjoys the political intrigue," Cellucci said.
Weld said people frequently ask him to run for office again. But he doesn't think they mean it. "They're saying it to be nice," he said. "What they're saying is 'We had fun when you were governor.'"
"I think it's a symbolic feeling of warmth," he added.
Weld's return to Boston came with a nudge from his friend and confidant of three decades, Mark E. Robinson, who saw Weld impress a large crowd of politicos in late April, at an event honoring his former fund-raiser, Peter J. Berlandi.
Robinson made a pitch over dinner. "I thought he was leaving a lot of equity on the table by staying in New York," he said.
He said that equity comes from the Weld brand, a mix of unorthodox political views and a whimsical sensibility.
"He has all the vices people like," Robinson said. "He hunts. He drinks. He gambles."
In New York, Weld had an international legal practice. He traveled to Oman, Ecuador, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, working on mining and gas projects. Congressional records show he and his firm were paid more than $850,000 since 2008 to lobby on behalf of New Balance, Sony, CNX Gas Corp., Raytheon, and Elemental Innovations, a defense contractor.
He also wrote novels and threw parties.
Virginia Buckingham, a former campaign manager and top aide, said she attended spirited soirees at Weld's five-bedroom apartment on East 61st St., with real estate mogul Mortimer B. Zuckerman and other "folks about town."
His 2005 bid for New York governor sputtered on the launch pad. He was hobbled by news that Decker College, a Kentucky school in which his investment firm had a minority stake, declared bankruptcy. Hundreds of students were left with nowhere to go, prompting state and federal fraud investigations. Weld was never implicated.
Though something of a socialite in New York, Weld never cut the towering figure there that he did in Boston.
"New York can be a noisy and anonymous place which, I think, was good for sometimes," Buckingham said. "But home is home."
Weld announced in October that he would be joining old friends, including Stephen P. Tocco, a former top aide in his administration, at ML Strategies and Mintz Levin.
He has begun stepping into the public eye, expounding in the Boston Herald on Whitey Bulger and other news, even defending Beacon Hill Democrats against state and federal patronage investigations.
Robert Durand, a former Democratic state senator who once jumped into the Charles River with Weld to show that the river was cleaner, said Weld loves the game.
"You always want to be a player," said Durand, who still goes fly fishing in the Adirondacks with him every spring.
But Durand, Tocco, Buckingham, and Berlandi doubt that Weld really wants to give up his nights, weekends, vacations to shake hands from Springfield to Attleboro.
None would rule it out, but Berlandi, the former fund-raiser, said most of the people he used to tap for Weld's campaigns have either dropped out of politics or have died.
Michael S. Dukakis, the Democrat who preceded Weld as governor, made a long snorting sound when asked if Weld should run for Senate. Dukakis, the outspoken liberal, has been the antithesis of Weld, politically and stylistically.
"I don't think he's serious," Dukakis said. "What is Weld serious about? Anything? He comes, he goes. He drops in. He disappears."
Weld enjoys talking about the past. Yet he protests any notion that he is becoming a purely nostalgic figure.
"No, I want to be an active figure," he said. "I like doing things. I'm having a great time. Tocco and I have spent the last six weeks charging around and it's really fun."
Last week, Weld, an inveterate name-dropper, and his wife were eating dinner at Rialto, in the Charles Hotel.
"This must be governors' night," the host told him.
Then the owner, Richard Friedman, a prominent Democratic donor, and his wife came to the Welds' table, with Deval and Diane Patrick, the governor and his wife. Weld joked about endorsing Patrick for president in 2016. They all laughed.
"We had a wicked time," Weld said.Noah Bierman can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @noahbierman.


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In times of war, the media grow skeptical of the American government's role in controlling the flow of information. But the American people are also concerned about the media's control of the flow of information. Will they act as a neutral observers, devoted to balance and accuracy? Or will they play an activist's role in undermining our government's effectiveness in waging war?
During a January 17 Nightline/Viewpoint special, ABC News President David Westin explained why he banned the wearing of flag pins by his reporters: "I think our patriotic duty as journalists in the United States is to try to be independent and objective and present the facts to the American people and let them decide all the important things....I respect any other news organization taking a different tack, but for me, part of the symbolism of the fact that what we're doing in our constitutional democracy, what we're trying to do to help quote, 'the cause of the country overall,' is to be objective and give just the straight facts to the American people and let them decide what they want to do about it."
In a review of 234 stories on ABC's World News Tonight from January 1 to March 7, the Media Research Center found that ABC News failed its promise to serve the American people as an independent and objective observer, offering straight facts and letting the people decide. Instead, ABC employed a dangerous double standard – harshly criticizing of the Bush administration and its policies, but failing to extend that same tough critical standard to other actors in this political crisis, from congressional Democrats, to UN bureaucrats, to skeptical allies like France, and even to the dictatorship in Iraq.
CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News presented a more balanced and less passionate evaluation of news developments. World News Tonight coverage of the crucial pre-war debate demonstrated a clear and repetitive bias on four fronts:
• ABC questioned the purity of the Bush administration's ideological and economic motives for war, and constantly decried a lack of White House respect for the peacemaking efforts of countries like France and the United Nations. ABC did not apply the same skeptical standards on ideology, greed, or "hard line" demands when it came to the policy stands of France or the United Nations.
• While ABC treated Bush administration pronouncements with great skepticism, ABC routinely channeled propaganda from the Iraqi regime without investigating its accuracy or even treating it with equal skepticism.
• ABC has touted the size and broadly "mainstream" nature of anti-war protest movements, without skeptical coverage of their radical organizers, their radical speeches, or their potentially destructive impact on the popularity of the "peace" position.
• ABC selectively covered its own polling numbers, reporting results that show slippage for the White House case, while sometimes ignoring its own polls when they found growing support for the White House case.
While the American public grow more convinced every day of the need for war, they have not arrived at that opinion through objective reporting from ABC that demonstrated faith in letting the American people decide for themselves. Instead, ABC's coverage on World News Tonight has scorned the notion of balance, lobbying the American people by favoring and highlighting information suggesting that war is unjustified, unnecessary, undiplomatic, and unwise.
1. Championing France and the United Nations Over the US
Throughout his months of presiding over pre-war World News Tonight coverage, ABC anchor Peter Jennings has projected the impression that his role is to accentuate all the negatives to slow down the "rush to war," and put America's impulsive militarism under the yoke of UN and French reasonableness. Every UN and ally's objection was not a position to be debated, but a "problem" to be solved, presumably through a prolonged period of surrendering to further diplomatic delays.
The Impulsive, Problem-Plagued White House. The White House cites UN resolutions to argue Iraq is the party obligated to demonstrate that it has rid itself of weapons of mass destruction, and the burden is not on the U.S. or the UN inspectors to find fresh proof of improper weapons within Iraq. But Jennings began on January 9 with an on-screen graphic reading "UN weapons inspectors find no 'smoking guns,'" and a verbal focus on White House problems: "We're going to begin with problems for the Bush administration if it really wants to overthrow Saddam Hussein militarily. United Nations weapons inspectors have said today they are not finding evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. And the administration's most loyal supporter for military action, the British Prime Minister, says Mr. Bush should not rush things."
As the momentum toward war picked up on February 7, Jennings introduced another story with the usual hard foot on the brakes: "Now to the Bush administration's campaign against Iraq. Just as the Iraqis appear to be making some concessions, the U.S. thinks it has growing support for war." The White House "thinks" it had growing support? As shown later in this report, ABC's own polls at that time showed growing support after Colin Powell presented evidence of Iraqi deceit to the UN.
Jaded Jennings ended the program on a note of cynicism: "Finally this evening, some notes about things to keep an eye on. The UN weapons inspectors go back to Baghdad this weekend. They have not been happy with Iraqi cooperation so far. We'll see if the Iraqis do any better – and if that means anything to the Bush administration."
In live coverage of the UN debate on February 14, the primary Jennings complaint was American non-cooperation, not Iraqi non-cooperation. Jennings painted President Bush, not France, as the impediment to allied unity: "Terry Moran, as you look at this from the distance at least of being on the road, and I think a lot of people got the impression this week that maybe the Bush administration doesn't mind if the Western alliance as we've known it in the post-war period breaks up. Some people are puzzled by that." A few hours later, Jennings flipped back again to how Bush alone is threatening to crumble the alliance: "What's happening here...is an effort in the Security Council among allies, remember, for the most part, to go forward together and not rupture this, or any other international body to which they all belong. And yet the Bush administration is determined to have its way on this."
On February 19, when the White House expressed hopes for a "second" resolution to underline the need for military action, CBS's Dan Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw managed to launch their newscasts without heavy-handed rebukes.
Brokaw led off from Kuwait: "Countdown Iraq. The U.S. will bring a new war resolution to a vote at the UN, President Bush calls it 'the last chance.'"
Also from Kuwait, Dan Rather announced at the top of the Evening News: "With the timetable for a possible new war with Iraq slipping, the United States is pushing for the United Nations Security Council to give Saddam Hussein a flat deadline for disarming. The White House said it will offer a draft resolution this week or next."
Compare that to how Peter Jennings approached the Bush policy on Iraq, assuming it's the Bush team, not a few allies, which deserved low marks on playing well with others. "It is quite clear in Washington tonight that the administration is prepared to jeopardize its relations with several of its oldest and best friends in order to get its way about Iraq."
A journalist could have suggested "old Europe" was jeopardizing relations, perhaps even with economic motivations of trading partnerships with the Baathist regime. But not at ABC. White House reporter Terry Moran brought usual Bush-the-cowboy approach: "With nearly 200,000 U.S. troops now in the Persian Gulf, the White House today presented what amounted to an ultimatum to the fourteen other nations on the Security Council."
On February 27, CBS's John Roberts and NBC's Andrea Mitchell both noted how the UN Security Council's debate over Iraq grew "bitter," but both refrained from blaming any one party. ABC's Terry Moran once again blamed the White House: "At the UN Security Council today, the Bush administration's hard line contributed to what diplomats said was an unusually bitter debate that yielded no consensus and left smaller nations feeling intense pressure from both the U.S. and France."
Why does the U.S. have a "hard line," but not France? France argued that it would veto any resolution, regardless of the language, if it authorizes military action. That's not a hard line? Not at ABC.
Wonderful Worldly Delays. While the United States was arrogant and uncompromising, the statements and actions of United Nations personnel and allied ministers of state were rarely scrutinized by ABC. On January 27, CBS's Dan Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw both noted the UN arms inspectors found no "smoking gun," but both led their newscasts by stressing how Iraq has failed to comply with the UN resolution.
Rather led off his broadcast: "Tonight's headlines: Chief inspector slams Iraq. U.S. says time is almost up."
Brokaw began his show: "Road to War: UN weapons inspectors say Saddam is not coming clean. They want more time."
On ABC, Peter Jennings opened with a milder tone: "On World News Tonight, the United Nations inspectors say Iraq has not yet accepted that it must disarm. The inspectors want more time to do their job." Jennings stressed how the nuclear inspector, Mohamed el-Baradei, was much softer on Iraq, a point of view CBS and NBC treated as a minor detail later in their broadcasts. Jennings announced that el-Baradei "said they have found no evidence of a nuclear weapons program so far and, his words now, 'provided there is sustained proactive cooperation by Iraq, we should be able within the next few months to provide credible assurance that Iraq has no nuclear weapons program.'"
Jennings also treated the reaction to the UN report from the White House and Saddam's minions as equally credible: "After spending last week in Baghdad listening to the Iraqi government, what we heard from the Iraqi government today is also as it was at the White House: true to form." From Baghdad, ABC's Dan Harris repeated that the Iraqi regime claimed "they have exhibited not only cooperation, but quote, 'super-cooperation.' Iraqi officials said the only way to avoid hostilities now is for the U.S. to stop its threats and warmongering."
When Hans Blix presented a report to the Security Council on February 14 attempting to soft-pedal Iraqi violations, Jennings opened that evening's World News Tonight: "The UN weapons inspectors have given their latest report on Iraq to the United Nations Security Council, and once again it brings into focus a lack of consensus on attacking Iraq. The Bush administration had hoped that the weapons inspectors would be very hard on Iraq today for not coming clean about weapons of mass destruction. It didn't work out precisely like that. And even with some of its allies, the administration did not have its best day." On this evening, CBS and NBC were equally negative about White House hopes.
But Jennings then presented a paper decree from Saddam as "another concession," as if Iraq is continually cooperating: "Not long before Mr. Blix briefed the Security Council, the Iraqis announced another concession. Saddam Hussein issued a presidential decree banning the production or the importation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and all of the materials used to make them. This is something the inspectors have been requesting for a decade." CBS reporter Mark Phillips at least added, "It's a legal ban not likely to satisfy those who think he still has them."
Earlier that day, all the networks presented the UN proceedings live, but ABC emerged as the least eager to describe Iraqi non-cooperation.
On CBS, Dan Rather declared his headline: "Hans Blix said today that Iraq has failed to account for many proscribed weapons and must still explain what happened to suspected stocks of anthrax, VX gas, and long-range missiles."
On NBC, Andrea Mitchell reported: "He did find what you could call a smoking gun, which is that one of the missiles, the al-Samoud missile, as we reported last night, is longer than the range permitted. It is 113 miles rather than 90 miles."
But Jennings summed up with vagueness: "On the one hand it's better, on the one hand it could be better, on the one hand he argues for a little longer time. On the other hand he says it depends on the Security Council, it certainly depends on the United States, which has not much interest in giving the weapons inspectors any time."
A few minutes after Terry Moran described the Bush team's "ultimatum" to allies on February 19, ABC's Dan Harris in Baghdad went a little easier on Iraq: "In recent days, Saddam Hussein has met many of the weapons inspectors' key demands.... In fact, the chief inspectors have said they've seen the beginnings of a change of attitude. However, on closer inspection, there is less to Iraq's cooperation than meets the eye." Harris noted whose attitude leads to Iraqi non-cooperation: "Tonight one top Iraqi official hinted at why the government may not be feeling much pressure to act. He said given the huge international peace protests and the growing anti-war sentiment at the UN, it is America that is in trouble." If America was "in trouble," ABC would easily qualify as one of national media's leading troublemakers.
On March 7, Jennings interviewed Secretary of State Colin Powell and hit him repeatedly from the left on the great utility of the inspectors: "So many people don't understand why you shouldn't let the inspections continue if they are accomplishing anything?" He followed up: "Most people think they're doing a reasonably effective job at the moment." He also accused Powell of "moving the goalpost...so the Security Council is left in the position of either agreeing with you completely or else."
2. Channeling Iraqi Propaganda
While the White House was presented as a bull in a china shop, ABC often presented Saddam Hussein's regime as... exactly the way Saddam wanted it presented. Reporting from Baghdad on January 21, Jennings told White House reporter Terry Moran, "it looks from here, maybe it looks from everywhere, that Mr. Bush is more and more determined to attack the Iraqis." Jennings soon decided that "when Saddam Hussein looks out from here, he also sees many of America's allies saying that President Bush is in too much of a hurry to go to war."
That evening, the first few seconds of the network news displayed yet another contrast between the Big Three, with ABC coming in softest.
CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather began the show "Tonight's headlines: Another terror attack on Americans in the Gulf."
On NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw opened: "Showdown over Iraq: President Bush aims tough words at Saddam Hussein and also at U.S. allies who want more time."
On ABC, Jennings began with the public-relations benefits for Saddam: "On World News Tonight this Tuesday, President Bush says there are no options left: Saddam Hussein is facing war the administration says it will go it alone if need be....An American killed in Kuwait: Anti-Americanism in the region may be a comfort to Saddam Hussein." He not only claimed inaccurately that Bush would "go it alone," the first words out of his mouth did not include "terrorism." It was just "anti-Americanism" that made Saddam's day.
But the real eye-opener that night came when the anchorman wrapped up with a celebration of Iraqi arts and letters: "For many years now, the United States and most Americans have looked at Iraq and tended to see only its dictator. But this a country with a very long history of, among other things, arts and letters. This week we were surprised to see several hundred artists and writers walking through the streets of Baghdad to say thank you to Saddam Hussein. He had just increased their monthly financial support. Cynical, you could argue with this particular time, but the state has always supported the arts, and some of the most creative people in the Arab world have always been Iraqis. And whatever they think about Saddam Hussein in the privacy of their homes, on this occasion they were praising his defense of the homeland in the face of American threats."
Why would Jennings be "surprised" at Iraqi subjects being paraded before his eyes as their monthly checks arrived? And why would he do the Iraqi regime the favor of displaying this cynical parade as he dismissed its human props and "whatever they think...in the privacy of their homes"?
Tomorrow's Lies Tonight. ABC even went the extra mile of anticipating Iraqi propaganda lines and advancing them before they could be concocted. After live coverage of the State of the Union address and the Democratic response on January 28, Jennings called on reporter Dan Harris in Baghdad who called President Bush's charge that Iraq is not cooperating with inspectors "low hanging fruit" for them to dismiss:
"When the leadership of this country wakes up in a couple of hours, the sun is just coming up right now, I suspect they will latch on to many of the complaints we've heard from President Bush tonight. Most notably I think the low hanging fruit is this idea that they're still hiding weapons of mass destruction. They'll point out that the inspectors have been here for more than 60 days and have so far found nothing. I think you'll also hear a reaction to this idea that President Bush put forward of liberating Iraq. Saddam Hussein was on TV a couple of hours ago saying the Americans want to enslave Iraq."
This was one of those moments where viewers might wonder: If reporters truthfully despise being "stenographers to power," how can they stand in Baghdad and not only act as stenographers for tyrants, but go so far as to compose their next set of talking points while they sleep? CBS and NBC coverage also featured reaction pieces from their reporters in Iraq, but CBS's Elizabeth Palmer and NBC's Ron Allen refrained from so generously relaying potential enemy propaganda lines. They focused on how Iraqi citizens may or may not hear what Bush said and how Iraq responded to the latest UN report.
"Human Shields." Another Iraqi propaganda ploy was loosening its migration standards for so-called "human shields," left-wing activists who pledged to stand in front of civilian targets and risk death to keep the war from happening. On the February 26 World News Tonight, Baghdad-based Dan Harris trumpteted the cause of one such American. "Ryan Clancy, a substitute English teacher from Milwaukee, became so convinced that a war with Iraq would be unjustified and unwise that he sold his stake in a local record store and came to Baghdad where he just moved into a food storage facility to act as a human shield....He says the goal of the human shields is to stop the war, or at the very least, to stop the U.S. from bombing sites vital to Iraqi civilians." Harris allowed that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested that placing innocent civilians around likely bombing targets is a war crime, but he also rebutted: "But human rights lawyers say if the Pentagon bombs places inhabited by human shields, that too would be a war crime."
Harris toyed around with the obvious point: "The human shields themselves are facing a problem as well: how to avoid being tools of the Iraqi government, which is paying for their transportation and their housing, including stocked refrigerators." He didn't find a spokesman to expand on that little "problem," but simply concluded with stenography for Ryan Clancy: "He says he's not here to protect Saddam Hussein, just the Iraqi people."
CBS and NBC both offered more skeptical coverage of these Saddam-assisted publicity stunt specialists. The night before Harris's report, Dan Rather briefly profiled Ryan Clancy on CBS Evening News, mentioning "he's left one troubled family behind." While his mother was scared but proud, Clancy said his father "accused me of siding with the enemy and pretty much called me a terrorist." The next night, as Harris puffed Clancy on ABC, CBS reporter David Martin suggested "Saddam is bringing in anti-war activists to serve as human shields and placing more and more military equipment near religious and civilian targets" to "complicate American battle plans."
NBC Nightly News didn't profile "shields" until March 4, but they also had a more balanced story than ABC. Reporter Kevin Tibbles found: "There are about fifty Americans already in Iraq, representing various groups and religious organizations working to prevent war. But to many other Americans, acting as a human shield is both foolish and unpatriotic." Tibbles balanced that critical viewpoint from David Riddell, whose brother Sean is a Marine, with rebuttals from his aunt Michele Riddell, who is a "human shield."
Jovial Saddam, Terrified Kids. On February 28, ABC's Dan Harris created another Baghdad blast of anti-war hype, underlining how a U.S. invasion will kill children and cause massive miscarriages. He began by emphasizing the regime's focus on normality. As viewers saw video of a couple getting married and crowded streets with people out shopping, Harris reported over video of Saddam and his soldiers: "Even from Saddam Hussein there's a measure of public levity...On Iraqi TV recently one of his soldiers told him a joke, something about a married couple. 'That's a good one,' said the President."
Harris then shifted to growing anxiety: "The government has given people six months worth of food rations. People are digging wells in their backyards, and hospitals, including this maternity hospital, are bracing for war." A nurse then predicted in English: "For sure there'll be premature labors and for sure there'll be high percentage of miscarriages, for sure it will be like that." Then Harris shifted to "Iraq's youngest citizens," as interviewed by Norwegian child psychologist and "peace" activist Magne Raundalen. Dr. Raundalen asked children: "If there was an attack, what would that mean?" Harris concluded the story by relaying one child's answer: "'They will attack us by airplanes and missiles and guns,' he says. His brother says 'a great number of people, especially children, will die.'"
Even as the time for war drew near in March, ABC kept pressing the Iraqi talking points about their great compliance efforts, as if they came straight from Saddam stooge Tariq Aziz. Jennings set up a March 4 story from Dan Harris in Baghdad: "In Iraq today, while the Iraqis continue to comply with the UN weapons inspectors, the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, was attacking the United States in a public letter to Iraqis."
3. Sanitizing Radical Protesters
Historically, ABC's reporting on protests has sought to present a "peace" movement that would resonate with Middle America, and separate it from what reporter Jackie Judd called "oddball fringe elements." When asked in 1991 about the marches being organized by the WWP, Judd said, "I think most reporters would tend to talk about who is part of the mainstream of the movement....I included the people who I thought were important to this and representative of it." At the time, ABC producer Juliet Cassone also explained her goal was finding the most presentable protesters: "We were looking for mainstream demonstrators."
But many protesters are not in the political "mainstream." In the first Gulf War and now the buildup to a second, the major organization behind large protests on Washington has been the Workers World Party. While reporters have tried to maintain that the brain trust of the protest movement "happens to be active" in the WWP, this is a little like saying that some old-time Southern men's group isn't racist, but its brain trust "happens to be active" in the Ku Klux Klan. The WWP Web site pledges "solidarity" with "workers" from communist Cuba to communist China while America, the locus of "world imperialism," tries to stop them "in a global class struggle." What does "peace" or "protest" mean in these ossified dictatorships other than a prison term or execution?
Reporters also often leave out what protesters actually say at protests. At a protest last October, former attorney general Ramsey Clark, the leader of the protest movement, compared the U. S. government to the Nazis: "Heinrich Himmler led the Gestapo. He said, 'Shoot first and ask questions afterward and I will protect you.' And that's what we plan to do with Iraq and other countries."
This questionable journalistic tactic – don't report on what happened and what was said at "peace" protests, but sanitize it to enhance its persuasive power – is being employed again. On Sunday, January 12, World News Tonight/Sunday anchor Carole Simpson predicted hopefully: "In this country, protests against the war have been lightly attended, but that may change soon." Los Angeles-based reporter Judy Muller touted: "From Los Angeles to Minneapolis...Thousands of Americans this weekend demonstrated against war with Iraq. The peace rallies included a lot of old familiar faces, but many new ones, as well....More and more, these crowds are filled with middle-class Americans who have never demonstrated before." ABC featured first-time protester Bonnie Morrison of Pasadena and Igor Brobowsky of Veterans Against the Iraq War. Promoting plans to march in Washington on the 18th, Muller wished aloud: "As more and more troops head overseas, more and more Americans may head for the streets."
To explain this ever-growing phenomenon, Muller called on Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin, a veteran of the hard-left movement against the Vietnam War: "I think mainstream America is worried sick about a war that does not make sense to them." He promised protests would be greater once violence began, because pre-war protests don't "bite the way pictures of bodies and burning villages will ignite sentiment." Muller ignored Gitlin's controversial stand within the "peace" movement: his sharp criticism of Ramsey Clark for a "near total unwillingness to rebuke Saddam Hussein."
When the march came to Washington on January 18, ABC didn't even wait for crowds to assemble to portray them as diverse. On the night before the march, reporter Bill Blakemore extrapolated from the bus he was riding: "Never mind the cold, they're going to protest. Democrats and Republicans. Many middle-aged. From all walks of life. And some students."
On Saturday night, the protests led the newscast, with substitute anchor Terry Moran laying the day out in glory: "It was a day of protest across the nation. On the West Coast and in Washington, DC demonstrators marched in vast numbers in the name of peace in the nation's biggest one-day expression of opposition to U.S. war plans in Iraq."
ABC's Lisa Sylvester proclaimed, "Braving frigid temperatures, they traveled across the country: black and white, Democrat and Republican, young and old." ABC's Geoff Morrell covered the trip to D.C. by a doctor and his "honor student" daughter: "So they rode a bus all night from Asheville, North Carolina. On board were businessmen, soccer moms and military veterans, all members of the same church." ABC left out the podium speakers calling the Bush administration "greedy imperialist murderers."
Another round of Saturday protests warmed ABC hearts a month later on February 16. Again, anchor Terry Moran glowingly opened the broadcast: "It's no secret there is a lot of opposition to the Bush administration's plans for war in Iraq. Today, around the world, we got a sense of the sheer scale and intensity of that opposition. Millions of people from New York to London to Rome and in scores of other cities, took to the streets to protest against any U.S.-led invasion against Iraq. It was an enormous display of anti-war and, in some cases, anti-American sentiment. We start tonight with Hilary Brown in London, where one of the largest rallies took place."
Typically, Brown went looking for newly minted protesters, "some had never marched before," and concluded with another diversity sales job: "This anti-war demonstration here in Hyde Park is being described as one of the biggest demonstrations in British history. It cuts right across political and social lines." After Brown, John McKenzie checked in from New York City where he also found everyday protesters. He carried soundbites from a teacher who said he's "ashamed" of the U.S. government, as well as a female pediatrician. He concluded: "So many voices, filling the streets, struggling to be heard." McKenzie's worry about "struggling to be heard" came about four-and-a-half minutes into ABC's hot-and-heavy protest coverage.
Enormous, Massive, Huge...Did I Mention Enormous? Two days after the rally, CBS and NBC had moved on to other, more timely subjects, but not Peter Jennings, who jumped on his first weeknight opportunity to employ the protesters as an authentic political powerhouse: "President Bush said today that the enormous anti-war demonstrations here and overseas in the last several days have not changed his mind about Saddam Hussein. But they have certainly given Mr. Bush's opponents some sense that they have momentum." ABC's Martha Raddatz explained: "For the first time today, President Bush responded to the massive worldwide protests against war and against his own administration."
In case the "massive" rallies hadn't been promoted enough, Jennings returned at story's end to ask: "At the White House, certainly the President and others will have seen, as we all did, those huge demonstrations here and overseas. They have any effect that you know of?" Raddatz replied: "Well, certainly they won't talk about it publicly, Peter, but they can't stand the fact that the world is having these massive protests. It makes the United States look bad. It makes the United States look like it is bucking the rest of the world, and they think Saddam Hussein is laughing at them." If Raddatz could peer into White House minds on this question, she could also guess that they felt ABC was also in the business of making the United States look like it's bucking the rest of the world.
Protesters didn't even have to take the trouble of flying or driving to Washington to land on ABC. On February 26, Jennings picked up the publicity gimmick of a "virtual" march of electric complainers: "In Washington today, thousands of people opposed to war against Iraq bombarded the Senate and the White House with phone calls, faxes and e-mails. They called it a virtual march on the Capitol. Communications were virtually paralyzed in the Senate for a while. Many congressional phone lines were jammed for several hours and one Senator reported 18 times more e-mail than usual."
But is the protest movement a political powerhouse? Does it represent a vast uprising in public opinion, or a tiny minority? It's fair to describe a protest of 100,000 strong as "massive," but not compared to the 105 million Americans who voted in the 2000 presidential election. (Harry Browne, the Libertarian candidate, received more than 384,000 votes. Does that make his campaign a political juggernaut?) ABC's own polls showed American support for war growing monthly, despite regular protests. It might be suggested that the protests had the effect of turning Americans against the "peace" position. But they didn't ask that question at ABC.
Dueling Daisies. Lyndon Johnson shocked the political world in 1964 with a "Daisy" ad that showed a little girl picking daisy petals while an ominous voice counted down from ten to a picture of a mushroom cloud – outrageously suggesting that electing Barry Goldwater equaled nuclear war. The ad aired only once, but in recent years, this infamous ad has been recreated twice, most recently with an anti-war message.
On the January 16 World News Tonight, Peter Jennings explained, "An anti-war group called MoveOn.org that's organized primarily over the Internet, started airing a television commercial opposing war against Saddam Hussein." Reporter Brian Rooney repeated the line: "This new version is made by a group called Move On that espouses political causes over the Internet."
Neither journalist suggested any distaste for the ad, and had no political description for the very liberal, very partisan Democrats who formed Move On, which was first assembled to fight Bill Clinton's impeachment tooth and nail.
The Move On ad ends with a mushroom cloud, and the claim: "Maybe that's why Americans are saying to President Bush, let the inspections work." An ad suggests that President Bush's policy will lead to nuclear war, but Rooney couldn't even call it "anti-Bush." He concluded the ad was a sign that "the anti-war movement is still relatively small but appears to be growing with a lot of help from the Internet...the anti-war movement has gone from the streets to the information superhighway." The anti-war movement is always "growing," even as ABC's polls showed the percentage of Americans favoring war was the real growing number.
Not every "daisy" ad knockoff received the pom-pom treatment from ABC. On October 27, 2000, then-ABC substitute anchor Aaron Brown wasn't so sanguine when an obscure Texas group ran a low-tech "daisy" ad claiming the Clinton-Gore team had sold national security secrets to China. ABC labeled it on screen as an "Anti-Gore Ad." Brown explained: "Every ad is designed to get your attention. This one attacks Al Gore. It says he sold out to China for campaign funds." He quickly added: "The Bush campaign has asked that the ad be pulled....By then, the ad will have been seen by millions for free and without much analysis." But unlike the 2003 story, Brown went for analysis to liberal professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who decried "its inaccuracy and its hyperbolic nature." That wouldn't define comparing President Bush's policy to nuclear war? Brown concluded: "You can expect more of this as we get closer to election day as groups with political agendas see how much they can get away with." Getting away with it did not require more subtlety, more nuance, more class. It only required a more liberal political agenda.
"Outspoken" Tony Benn. ABC's aversion to placing the protest movement anywhere to the left of the mainstream also surfaced when British leftist Tony Benn secured an interview with Saddam Hussein, asking "questions" such as: "I wonder whether you could say something yourself directly through this interview to the peace movement of the world that might help to advance the cause they have in mind?" Benn, whose questions are reproduced on his Web site TonyBenn.com, also claimed protesters were "the real Americans in my opinion, the real British, the real French, the real Germans, because they think of the world in terms of their children."
CBS's Bob Simon stood apart by describing Benn as "a 79-year-old British politician and lifelong left-wing activist."
NBC's Andrea Mitchell explained Saddam "told an anti-war British politician he has no links to al-Qaeda and no illegal weapons."
But ABC tried to disguise Benn's left-wing perspective as Peter Jennings intoned: "The Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, has given his first television interview today, to a non-Iraqi, in 12 years. It was conducted by a former member of the British Parliament, Tony Benn, one of Britain's most famous and outspoken politicians." He couldn't even identify Benn with the Labor Party, which would have informed at least the political junkies. Only late in the story did reporter Dan Harris reveal that Benn "said he conducted this interview to stop the war."
4. Playing with Polls
The major networks, news magazines, and newspapers use polls to help them figure out how politicians and policies are faring with America. But they also have used them in the past to manipulate public opinion by touting results gleaned from loaded questions, such as public opposition to nonexistent spending "cuts." In the pre-war buildup, ABC manipulated public opinion with very selective reporting on poll results. They favored polls showing support slipping for the White House, and sometimes failed to tell viewers when their own poll numbers revealed growing support for the White House case.
On the night after the State of the Union address, the January 29 NBC Nightly News ended with a story by Jim Avila on how a post-speech Gallup poll revealed a nation impressed: "Before, only 47 percent believed President Bush made a convincing case for military action. After, 67 [percent] supported an attack."
On World News Tonight, however, Jennings began: "And now to the President's impact last night on public opinion. We knew going into the speech that the country was divided on many issues, including what to do about Iraq, or in some cases, when. And as we do on occasions like this, we conducted a poll when he was finished and we found that people had not changed their minds in significant numbers."
So how could Jennings maintain that they found no significant change in the numbers? In the eighth paragraph of Langer's Web site report, he noted little change, but the time between polls was only one day: "63 percent support military action – essentially unchanged from 61 percent Monday night."
Hours before the State of the Union address the night before, Jennings mentioned the 61 percent figure on his newscast, but surrounded it with more liberal-pleasing numbers: "An ABC News poll for this occasion finds that 64 percent of Americans believe the UN weapons inspectors should be given a few more months to do their jobs, 61 percent support attacking Iraq eventually. But only 44 percent of American support a war if the UN does not approve."
Jennings tried to make a trend out of a blip a week earlier on World News Tonight, when ABC found a slip in the polls: "An ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that public support for attacking Iraq has declined somewhat: 57 percent of Americans now support U.S. military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein. It was 62 percent in mid-December, and as high as 78 percent a few months after the 9-11 attacks." So dropping from 62 to 57 percent was news, but rising back to 61 percent was not reported as a jump, and another bump to 63 percent was dismissed as no change. (The 62 percent rating was mentioned in the midst of a wave of protest-promoting coverage on January 18, as well as the finding only 42 percent supported war "if the U.S has to go it alone.")
Downplaying the Powell Effect. In the aftermath of Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 5 address to the UN laying out the case of Iraqi non-compliance with UN orders to disarm, Jennings noted a new ABC News poll found that 71 percent thought Powell was convincing and 61 percent thought the Bush team justified going to war. So he went overseas to find discontent: "There's a degree of opposition to war in every country, even where the government has been supportive" and that "many Arabs, even if they dislike Saddam Hussein, wonder about America's long-term intentions."
The anchorman's acknowledgment of growing domestic support might seem generous, but it's not. On this question – "Do you think the Bush Administration has or has not presented enough evidence to show why the United States should use military force to remove Saddam Hussein from power?"– the number rose from 48 percent three weeks before Powell spoke to 61 percent afterwards. Langer's Web report on ABC's polling found movement after Powell's speech: two-thirds now supported war on Iraq, and the number of those supporting war without UN endorsement rose from the 44 percent Jennings announced before the State of the Union to "half." Langer also found "the preference for giving the UN inspectors a few more weeks or less, rather than a few months or more, is up by eight points to 59 percent." Jennings left these numbers out of his show.
"No Consensus"? As the polls solidified behind Bush, Jennings began the February 10 World News Tonight from Portland, Oregon in denial: "On the road in America, listening to Oregon. There is no consensus about war." But at the end of the show, as he described his duties hosting a town meeting in Portland, Jennings explained: "There is a lot of anti-war sentiment in the city. In January 25,000 people demonstrated against going to war. As of this week, the state as a whole supports the President. Last night at a town hall meeting, there was no consensus."
But early in the broadcast, Jennings relayed the latest polling swing toward the White House position: "A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that most Americans support attacking Iraq even if the United Nations opposes it. Two-thirds of Americans say they favor military action to remove Saddam Hussein. That number drops to 50 percent if there is United Nations opposition, but it rises to 57 percent if there is support from some U.S. allies even if the United Nations Security Council remains opposed." So much for "no consensus about war."
Slipping UN Support. On February 24, as President Bush decided to push another ("second") UN resolution demanding Iraqi disarmament, ABC's latest poll found public support for war remained steady at 63 percent. Langer's Web report noted that four in ten surveyed supported war "strongly," compared to only two in 10 who "strongly" oppose military action.
But on air, Peter Jennings mysteriously presented the ABC poll as grounds for slower action and more solicitude for the UN: "The President wants to move quickly on this. A number of other countries wish to go slowly or not at all. And in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll just finished, we find that 56 percent of Americans want the administration to take it slower and try harder to get more UN support. Even though, as you can see there, only 38 percent of Americans think the UN is doing a good job handling the situation." After a report from Terry Moran, Jennings added: "Our new poll finds that President Bush's approval rating for handling Iraq has slipped by six points to 55 percent."
Let's put those numbers closer together. The UN's handling gets a 38 percent approval rating, while President Bush gets a 55 percent approval rating. For months, Peter Jennings painted a picture of Bush versus a world opposing his brash cowboy act, and now a poll showed more Americans approve of Bush than the UN. It's too bad Jennings put a whole story between those numbers instead of reporting them side by side.
As for Jennings noting the slipping approval rating, he did not report on earlier burps up and down in that number: 58 percent approval in December, 50 percent on January 20, back up to 57 percent a week later.
By March 10, Jennings did not avoid reporting how a new ABC News poll found that "61 percent believe support from the UN Security Council is not necessary to attack." He did not note that was up from 44 percent in January. A check of Langer's Web report on the March 5-9 survey also revealed that the number for those who feel UN authorization is not necessary jumped to an impressive 71 percent "if allies participate."
Conclusion: Recommendations for Improved Coverage
• Reporters should seek a balance of arguments and a balance of skepticism in covering both the United States and allies and international organizations. The American people should expect skepticism in coverage of the White House, but they also expect skepticism in presenting the United Nations and difficult allies like France. All of these actors played a crucial role in the pre-war debate, and merited journalistic skepticism of their positions, motives, and in the case of the UN, their ability to function as a cohesive organization.
• Untrustworthy enemy claims should not be given equal weight with the statements of American officials. The free American media should be extremely dubious of the self-serving claims of an enemy dictatorship. Journalists are at their worst when they hammer away at the legitimacy of the government which grants them their freedoms at the same time they're presenting credulous Potemkin-village propaganda reports from a dictatorship. At the bare minimum, U.S. and Iraqi claims should be submitted to a similar acid test of truthfulness.
• The American people deserve a fuller picture of the "peace" movement. The newsworthiness of protesters should not be determined according to their "mainstream" attractiveness. Who are the leaders of the protest movements, and what are their beliefs? What statements are made in podium speeches, not just from average Americans marching down the street? What are the policy consequences if their wishes were fulfilled? Protest leaders deserve as much scrutiny of their ideology, motives, and financial support as our governing leaders receive.
• The American people deserve a fuller picture of network polls. Network pollsters should ask straightforward polling questions without loaded language. Network reporters and anchors should do straightforward reporting on the results, and avoid playing hide-and-seek games with poll numbers that might aid politicians and causes they don't like. Tricks like these encourage public skepticism about network pollsters and poll reporting.


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CAC Redesigns www.Coach.ca
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The CAC has redesigned www.coach.ca with a new emphasis on community coaching and the NCCP transition. In a major effort to improve services to coaches, the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) unveiled a redesigned website today with some exciting new features. In addition to information and resources for high performance coaches, CAC has added new sections for community coaches and parents. Recognizing the growing needs of volunteer coaches and parents, CAC hopes the new website will be a valuable resource for the nearly two million Canadians, many of them parents, who volunteer as amateur coaches each year.
"Volunteer coaches are the backbone of the Canadian sport system," says John Bales, President and CEO of CAC. "They are one of our most valuable resources. We need to make sure they are properly equipped to offer our kids a positive sport experience. We hope this website will enhance the skills these coaches are developing through the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) and offer them the support they need while coaching in their communities."
The new site, redesigned by Dodge Ink Inc., features:
* a searchable database of more than 200 tips and tools for coaches, parents, and community sport organizations.
* nearly 100 frequently asked questions about CAC and the NCCP, including questions about how to become trained and/or certified in the new competency/outcomes-based NCCP.
* a new NCCP Development and Sharing Zone for NCCP partners that contains up-to-date resources, tools, and examples to facilitate the transition to a competency/outcomes-based model.
Visit www.coach.ca to check out this exciting online resource for coaches, parents, community sport organizations, and NCCP partners.
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Machiko Hasegawa is one of the first female manga artists. She published her first illustrations in magazine Shojo Club at age 14 and created her most famous comic, 'Sazae-san', in 1946. This was a daily newspaper comic about a housewife and her family. After appearing in a local newspaper, it was taken up by the important Asahi Shimbun paper in 1949.
Hasegawa worked on strip on a daily basis until 1974. It became immensely popular and appeared as theater plays, animation films and in songs. Other comics by Machiko Hasegawa are 'Eipuron Obasan' and 'Ijiwaru Basan'. In 1985 a museum in Setagaya, Tokyo, was dedicated to her.


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