Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Media Watchdog Watchdog? New Explanatory Footnote!

A major media watchdog has created a storm of controversy over CNN's allegedly accidental coverage of an anchor's bathroom conversation instead of a presidential address to the nation. It turns out Kyra Phillips admires her husband and views her sister-in-law as overbearing! I am in doubt how we could continue to exist without these watchdog groups doing such important work for the survival of our nation. These outrages cannot continue. Thankfully, CNN has issued an apology:
"CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted an anchor's bathroom
conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying
President Bush's speech in New Orleans. [...]
"CNN experienced audio
difficulties during the president's speech today in New Orleans," the CNN
statement read. "We apologize to our viewers and the president for the
disruption."
CNN apologized to the White House on Tuesday afternoon. It
wasn't clear whether it was a technical or human malfunction, and CNN, citing
corporate policy, said it wouldn't comment on whether anyone would be
disciplined. It seemed unlikely that anyone would."

However, CNN has not yet acknowledged what everybody knows deep down: would this fiasco have taken place under President Gore? For this we must once again place our reliance on those trusty media watchdogs.*

*This is a joke. To spoil the joke we will explain it: we are satirically suggesting that this media watchdog, which prides itself on exposing liberal media bias is not living up to its stated goals, unless they really believe that this seeming mistake was the result of some sort of elaborate conspiracy by CNN.