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John Roberts: Time to "Move on" to substantive reporting
huffingtonpost.com — CNN's John Roberts (formerly of CityTV, Toronto) says he took it on himself to declare his morning interviews with Democratic candidates Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton a "Wright Free Zone". Viewer feedback was "overwhelmingly positive".
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- aliengoods, on 05/06/2008, -1/+37Wow. Are you saying we may get something other than tabloid journalism?
I'll believe it when I see it.- rjc5056, on 05/06/2008, -0/+8At this point, I would prefer tabloid journalism. At least E! or Access Inside Hollywood or w/e don't try and pass themselves off as having any kind of journalistic integrity. Tabloids also don't wield the power to shape the future of the world with smear campaigns and feeding biased news to their audience. The 4th branch needs a complete overhaul.
- ShemDaimwood, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2It's a shame how rare real journalists have become in the journalism business.
- masterm1nd, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3You picked the wrong web site
- oldgal, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1I watched the election returns for about an hour tonight, flipping between MSNBC and CNN. The name Wright was used 19 time, elite or bitter were referenced 4 times, gas tax holiday 2 times and Bosnia sniper fire not at all.
- Sogui, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Right because Digg focuses on THE ISSUES *sarcasm*
- GhostyBoy, on 05/06/2008, -12/+6If they are going to waste this much airtime on ridiculous irrelevant ***** that no one cares about then they might as well ask Hillary why she killed Vince Carter.
- GhostyBoy, on 05/06/2008, -4/+10Or Vince Foster for that matter. (save!)
- nomadhacker, on 05/06/2008, -5/+6How much do you know about your preacher's/priest's/reverend's opinions at the church you go to regularly? I went to the same church for over 20+ years myself and doubt I really know much about what my pastor thinks.
- UTKEngineer, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5It's not like these were Wright's innermost thoughts that he never shared with anyone. This is what he said from the pulpit for all to hear. And I'd be happy to "Move on" just as soon as Obama gives a direct answer for why he thought these ideas were just peachy for 20 years and then, suddenly, found Wright to be a raving lunatic when his popularity in the polls dropped.
- Spiffjiggins, on 05/06/2008, -3/+3Obama thought he was a lunatic, when he started acting like one. Did you see his dog and pony show the other weekend? It was embarrassing.
- masterm1nd, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3Well your pastor either says crazy ***** to their audience or they don't. Wright does.
- metric7, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3Liar,you don't go to church.
- UTKEngineer, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5It's not like these were Wright's innermost thoughts that he never shared with anyone. This is what he said from the pulpit for all to hear. And I'd be happy to "Move on" just as soon as Obama gives a direct answer for why he thought these ideas were just peachy for 20 years and then, suddenly, found Wright to be a raving lunatic when his popularity in the polls dropped.
- alacrity2005, on 05/06/2008, -2/+2GASP!! Vince Carter is dead??!! Christ, what will New Jersey fans do now? Who will Toronto hate? Who could possibly step into the roll of most overrated player of his generation as well as he did? *****! And to think Hillary is responsible... Sucky news, indeed
- Jsmuli2, on 05/06/2008, -0/+7Good move on Robert's part, but later in the article he mentions that he would go back to talking about Wright if the republicans get on Obama's case (should Obama be the #1 Dem)
- bjs3171, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3so we'll just have to wait and see. maybe the general election campaign will consist mostly of Obama and McCain skipping in a field of dandelions together. really, you never know.
- Jsmuli2, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1That.Would.Be.AWESOME!
(and a little fruity, fine by me though)
- Jsmuli2, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1That.Would.Be.AWESOME!
- bjs3171, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3so we'll just have to wait and see. maybe the general election campaign will consist mostly of Obama and McCain skipping in a field of dandelions together. really, you never know.
- Shiftgood, on 05/06/2008, -1/+10Im actually blown away by the "our viewers want us to move on, so we will ok?"
- dunderballer, on 05/06/2008, -2/+7I love how the video ends just after Roberts says "let's get right to the issues." At least that's the point where Huffington falls asleep. Sometimes it seems like viewers really do want just YouTube clips of Wright, Ferraro, sniper-fire-gate, and bitter-gate.
- Mejari, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Agreed. Anyone have a link to the full interview? And maybe the one w/ Hillary as well.
- stormkrow, on 05/06/2008, -6/+2There's a war going on for your mind
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it's raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in nascar chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies
There's a war going on for your mind
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say "stop snitchin'"
Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings
There is a war going on for your mind
Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them
The desert sky is their bluescreen
They superimpose explosions
They shout at you
"pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection
And meteors these days are the size of corpses
There's a war going on for your mind
We are the insurgents
-Flobots- Franswahili, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Very conscious. I digg it.
- absurdist, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Art Band
More like a fart band.
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- Infidelcastr0, on 05/06/2008, -2/+2Awesome for obvious reasons but fail for cutting off the interview.
- MarkusGarvey, on 05/06/2008, -10/+8Fox wont have anything to report!...
- masterm1nd, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4And apparently, neither did you.
Irony?- MarkusGarvey, on 05/07/2008, -2/+1at least i got you beat!!!...sweet Irony...
- masterm1nd, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4And apparently, neither did you.
- twertyto, on 05/06/2008, -8/+3Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Never heard of him.
- Drkgodess, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4It's about god damn time!
- heypetray, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Anybody feeling motivated to research and share this guy's contact info? I'm quite surprised it hasn't surfaced yet...
- eblues200, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3yeeah, Citytv alumnus!
- evilJaze, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0Agreed. Leave it to a good Canadian boy to bring balance to the heavily one-sided US media.
- floridiot2, on 05/06/2008, -3/+11I don't even see why people went overboard about Wright. I like what he has to say. I agree with him.
- mozert, on 05/06/2008, -2/+2I agree with you too.
- masterm1nd, on 05/06/2008, -5/+3That's why named yourself idiot.
- bjs3171, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1wait, the audience likes that? QUICK! go back to talking about Wright and non-existent snipers!
- TheSwashbuckler, on 05/06/2008, -15/+8"Viewer feedback was 'overwhelmingly positive'."
In other words the Obama nation is grateful that someone in the media is starting to ignore their candidate's flaws again...- Franswahili, on 05/06/2008, -5/+2Wouldn't it be Reverend Wright's flaws? Also, whether you support McCain or not don't you think it's odd that he gets no flack for his support from Hagee? Doesn't that alone tell you this is a made up issue to take Obama down? Furthermore, has anyone really listened to Rev. Wright's words and meditated on what he may mean? It isn't anti-American, it's Anti-NeoCon. The less everyone thinks the more power these buffoons get-- don't you get it???
- p0s3r, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5From his Audacity of Hope sermon (you know the one that inspired Obama's book), he says "white folks' greed runs a world in need". Please explain how that is "Anti-Neocon" and not "Anti-White".
- Franswahili, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Is he wrong in saying that? I think not.
- TheSwashbuckler, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Obama's poor judgement in having Wright as his mentor is Obama's flaw, not Wright's.
- p0s3r, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5From his Audacity of Hope sermon (you know the one that inspired Obama's book), he says "white folks' greed runs a world in need". Please explain how that is "Anti-Neocon" and not "Anti-White".
- Franswahili, on 05/06/2008, -5/+2Wouldn't it be Reverend Wright's flaws? Also, whether you support McCain or not don't you think it's odd that he gets no flack for his support from Hagee? Doesn't that alone tell you this is a made up issue to take Obama down? Furthermore, has anyone really listened to Rev. Wright's words and meditated on what he may mean? It isn't anti-American, it's Anti-NeoCon. The less everyone thinks the more power these buffoons get-- don't you get it???
- Barackalypse, on 05/06/2008, -6/+3Damn, that means he's gonna have to talk about issues. Hopefully they won't ask him any hard questions that he doesn't have prepared responses for (you'll know the moment he doesn't, the smooth speaking superstar facade starts to fall apart as he bungles his way through off the cuff).
- gr33k, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1The guy hasn't been on city tv since '87 lol...i don't even know why it was mentioned in the description
- Frankenface, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Looks like he still is "Rockin'" JD Roberts after all..
- jonnyboy1544, on 05/06/2008, -2/+5It's funny that a story about biased reporting is coming from the Huffington Post.
- cplusplus, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3Some fun video of him as a VJ - then called JD Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=JD+rob ...- eblues200, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0theres a clip of the (techincal gaffe filled) launch of Much, he and another fella were the first VJ's on the channel.
- dhughes, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1 Probably Christopher Ward, he's a songwriter these days, he wrote the song Black Velvet.
JD and Christopher were ever present on MuchMusic, it was a great time for the music station they actually played music. Interviews didn't ask stupid questions to pop stars or rock bands.
Now all that's on it are bubble heads; both interviewer and the people being interviewed. The only thing on are stupid reality shops, I can't remember the last time I saw a music video.
- dhughes, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1 Probably Christopher Ward, he's a songwriter these days, he wrote the song Black Velvet.
- eblues200, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0theres a clip of the (techincal gaffe filled) launch of Much, he and another fella were the first VJ's on the channel.
- spamcrusher, on 05/06/2008, -5/+8Digg should be renamed to HuffingtonPostRepost.com with a side of DailyKos. Seriously, Obama is alright (I'm not supporting or voting for him, but we could of ended up much worse) but all these Obama articles are getting old. I don't think the Ron Paul spam was half as bad even at its prime.
- dan222555, on 05/06/2008, -10/+7The liberal media will do everything they can to steer clear of anything damaging to their favored son Barack Obama....regardless of whether or not the American people care about it.
- Franswahili, on 05/06/2008, -2/+3What liberal media? All I ever hear about is the media attempting to bring down Obama and pimp McCain. How can there be a liberal bias when there really is nary a true liberal on TV at all? Clinton and Obama are nowhere near true liberals. Bush is nowhere near a true conservative.
- sqwirl, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2"The liberal media will do everything they can to steer clear of anything damaging to their favored son Barack Obama"
Yeah, I mean, it's not as if they've aired the Rev. Wright controversy on a 24-hour loop for the past 3 months or anything... - Spiffjiggins, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2What the hell are smoking and where do I find some. This liberal media could and should be asking questions about, healthcare, the economy, jobs, and that little pesky war. Rev Wright is just the media's distraction of the real issues.
- dan222555, on 05/06/2008, -2/+1I know it's tough to understand for you lot. The media would absolutely love to ignore everything about Jeremiah Wright. Unfortunately they can't because the issue is too big in the mind's of the voters. They've been cringing at the fact that they have to address the controversy, now they just can't wait to set it aside.
You want them to talk about healthcare, the economy, jobs, war, etc? As if we haven't learned everything we're going to learn about those issues from the candidates already. On all those issues Obama and Clinton are more or less identical. As a result the Obama-Clinton race is all about character. Rev. Wright is a character issue. The American people want questions answered about it. The American people want to know how Obama went from "I can no more disown him..." to repudiating his comments a few weeks later. The American people want to know why Barack Obama was more disgusted at Wright's anti-Obama remarks than his anti-American remarks. Such a character-defining issue cannot be ignored.
- thereisnostate, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Kill your tv.
- Dynamis, on 05/06/2008, -2/+3It's understandable why they want to move on:
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor, according to USA Today/Gallup poll published on Monday.
The poll showed Hillary Clinton leading Obama 51 percent to 44 percent nationally among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independent voters, in contrast to a CBS News/New York Times survey released on Sunday that had Obama leading Clinton by 12 points."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_poli ... - nastronomical, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2The American people are sick of hearing we are losing the war.....will the obey the viewers?
- p0s3r, on 05/06/2008, -2/+4They left off "... my my your ***** tastes good, Obamessiah (pbuh)!" from the quote. If you find the full version on youtube you can hear him say it off camera.
- withears, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1It's unfortunate that the media did not take the same tact with the lying switfboaters in the last election. Instead, the media perpetuated the untruths that resulted in another 4 years of this pathetic/dishonest administration.
- 140Suffolk, on 05/07/2008, -2/+2Lying? Kerry admitted HE had lied in some of the issues, like that he was never in ***** Cambodia. And the rest of the issues they brought up he never dealt with. He wouldn't release his service records. Then he lied about it.
- withears, on 05/07/2008, -1/+1The switfboaters were widely discredited after it was proven than many of them never even served with Kerry.
- 140Suffolk, on 05/07/2008, -2/+2Kerry could have proved some of his assertions if he'd released his military records. But he didn't. Which means those assertions were not true. So HE was the one widely discredited.
Also, his claim that being in Cambodia was seared or burned or somethinged into his memory was disproved when it turned out that he hadn't even been on that continent when the US was involved in Cambodia. And Kerry finally admitted it.
- 140Suffolk, on 05/07/2008, -2/+2Kerry could have proved some of his assertions if he'd released his military records. But he didn't. Which means those assertions were not true. So HE was the one widely discredited.
- withears, on 05/07/2008, -1/+1The switfboaters were widely discredited after it was proven than many of them never even served with Kerry.
- 140Suffolk, on 05/07/2008, -2/+2Lying? Kerry admitted HE had lied in some of the issues, like that he was never in ***** Cambodia. And the rest of the issues they brought up he never dealt with. He wouldn't release his service records. Then he lied about it.
- 420ilerBuzzed, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1***** me - that's refreshing to see something like that.
- 420ilerBuzzed, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1I can't believe how many Hillary ***** Sniffers there are on here today.
- JointVenture, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3WTF? So a reporter is letting a candidate tell him what he can or cannot ask?
So does each candidate get to pick a person they dont want brought up?
Can McCain pick Bush? - highdimension, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I noticed this. John Roberts mentioned nothing about Jeremiah Wright, yet when Obama was on Meet the Press, the first 45 minutes were about Jeremiah Wright. Come on, the media is fixated on this. They want us to believe that:
Jeremiah Wright caused the home foreclosure crisis
Jeremiah Wright started the war in Iraq
Jeremiah Wright is raising the premiums on Health Insurance
Jeremiah Wright is making big profits off of crude oil
Jeremiah Wright is going to start the Great Depression of 2008 - 2009
Okay, let's get off of it already. No wonder viewers gave Mr. Roberts a pat on the back for this. You and I both know that all the candidates have affiliations with people who are deemed controversial. It's really getting old. - GrodyChamp, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Huffingtonpost talking about biased reporting is the most hypocritcal crap I've ever seen. ENOUGH WITH THE HUFFINGTON POST ALREADY. This ***** from that site is getting to be too much. 10 stories a day from that ***** blog make the front of Digg.
- PolishLogic, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Just consider the people submitting the Huff Post's content. They see it as the ultimate in fair and balanced.
I find it hilarious that content will never be considered biased by the people who agree with it.
- PolishLogic, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Just consider the people submitting the Huff Post's content. They see it as the ultimate in fair and balanced.
- jontalisman, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4So CNN should pretend the Wright issue doesn't exist when polls show fully a third of all voters feel his racism does reflect badly on Obama's ability to judge of character? How much did the Obama campaign have to pay to get this guy on their team?
I know, let's just pretend there are no real issues unless the majority of people agree that there's a problem! - JoanDark, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2
"time to move on to substantive reporting".. Time?
Way past time, actually. - 140Suffolk, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3Time to move on. Let's talk about Obama's cousin in Kenya, Raila Odinga. Odinga ran for president in Kenya. And Obama made speeches for him in Nairobi, at Odinga's rallies. Well, when Odinga lost last fall, he turned his minions loose and they killed 1.000 people. Mostly burned to death.
If Obama had done the least bit of research he'd have learned that Odinga was a bad guy. Educated in communist East Germany. Named his kids after Fidel "firing squad" Castro and Winnie "the torturer" Mandela. Involved in an unsucessful violent coup in the past.
But instead he used his "good judgment" to support a violent monster.
Yes, lets have substantive reporting.
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