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April 02, 2007
Video shows Michael Ware didn't heckle McCain
Re: the lastest Michael Ware story. So far video shows, and Ware insists, that he didn't heckle McCain during the press conference. The source of this story was a quote on Drudge from "an official at the press conference." What raised the credibility of this anonymous source was Ware's history as a journalist in Baghdad, which Kesher Talk and some other blogs took the opportunity to revisit by linking to our previous posts. Those do have corroborating video and statements.
Even as Ware defends his behavior on air, he engages in editorial remarks which are consistent with his previous public appearances. So we know Ware has a point of view and we know he isn't shy about showing it, while he's covering the story. So now we can factor that in while evaluating whether to take his reporting at face value.
UPDATE: Hit & Run has more, including an example of how the rapid response of the blogosphere can correct falsehoods.
[The video] reveals that Ware didn't do anything until the end of the presser, when he raised his hand. But CNN didn't endeavor to release that video. It came from a Ware fan site. A few years ago CNN would have kept dithering as the story gathered momentum online, and then finally released the video as the story was dying out. Here's an example of a Web 2.0 technique - readers uploading short videos and sharing them at the speed of thought - defeating a Web 1.0-ish news site that posted a story and let the readers have at it.
However, a news report says:
Making a lightning trip to Iraq, McCain and three fellow Republican senators told slightly incredulous journalists about their "deeply moving" downtown walkabout, sipping tea and chewing the fat with welcoming Iraqis. . . ."I studied warfare. I'm a student of history. If you control the capital city of a nation you have a significant advantage," countered McCain as one reporter giggled at the back. [my emphasis-JSW]
Ware was sitting at the back, and the report goes on to say that "journalists openly scoffed afterwards."
Judith | 04/02/07 at 02:32 PM | Categories: - The Fourth Estate
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Comments
So why don't you post your headline, "I Was Wrong About Ware"?
Not as catchy as he's still drinking on camera, or see him here 'drunk', or he left Time after that, (it was actually in 2006!), I know, but it would at least be HONEST!
babyboy | April 2, 2007 04:07 PM
So let me get this straight. You base the credibility of the source based on your perceived shortcomings of Mr.Ware's journalistic objectivity? Wow, you right wingers have an weird sense of how get at the truth!
Kougar | April 2, 2007 05:59 PM
If you get new information which fits with something you already know, you give it more weight than info which contradicts what you already know. Don;t tell me you don't do that.
Judith | April 2, 2007 06:26 PM
Well, what you already 'knew', and drew 'conclusions' from, is totally unsubstantiated by facts. I reviewed your links and videos in 10 minutes, and what you 'concluded' was totally absent from your supporting evidence. My link to you from Pajamas was my first visit; although not impressed, I'll visit again as you look to have other topics of interest to me. Perhaps you were just having a bad day. Happy Passover.
babyboy | April 2, 2007 09:44 PM
Judith,
When it comes to maligning someone, I'd say it's probably better to wait for confirmation. I'm always amazed at the mendacity of people like you calmly explaining away your mistakes and lies, as they were me inconveniences that have perfectly good explanations. It is precisely people like you who led this country into a disaster, who don't take accountablity for their actions. When pressed you pretend that mistakes are for the "little people" or "everyone does it!". Such fifth grade antics!
Kougar | April 2, 2007 10:54 PM
My problems with Mr. Ware do not stem from the McCain episode, but from an interview he gave with Hugh Hewitt... I find much that is troubling in a man who withholds information, does not set records straight and ensures that toxic ideas spread by inaction.
That is not helping the reading Public and is helping a point of view. I do not mind bias in reporting, so long as the reporter makes their position clear and why. Then I can judge for myself based on what is presented and the bias.
Mr. Ware should tell us what he knows and address those things that have cropped up that do not support his beliefs, but which he knows in any event. Not doing so is dishonest reporting, and ill serves the Public towards the ideological ends of the reporter.
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