How the Media See Their Job

By Media Research Center
February 2, 2007

"Our job is to bash the President," Newsweek's Evan Thomas admits, even as ABC's Diane Sawyer takes a kinder, gentler approach with the vehemently anti-American leader of Iran: "He is dramatically sentimental and sympathetic if someone comes up and expresses a personal plight," Sawyer suggested, asking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad himself: "Are you often in tears?" Meanwhile, CNN frets about money for Iraq being "poured down the hole," CBS's Harry Smith salutes Al Gore's global warming crusade -- "Is Al Gore a prophet?" -- and HBO's Bill Maher unleashes another anti-Bush tirade sure to please liberal ears: "The man is a rube. He is a dolt. He is a yokel on the world stage."