Ingraham during a portion of her interview today with whoever on whatever balked when whoever said the term the "mainstream media."
Ingraham said that isn't the mainstream media, my radio show callers call it the dinosaur media.
We await availability of transcript. (well when you switch back and forth you do miss details)
Laura Ingraham Catches Heat for Iraq Analysis Wednesday, June 07, 2006
The O'Reilly Factor interview with Ingraham reveals Ingraham doesn't consider Fox is part of the dinosaur media. It's only the old media that are the dinosaurs?
Ingraham wasn't specific. O'Reilly partially got out, CNN?
O'REILLY: Absolutely a fair analysis I think. Do you believe NBC News is anti-war, anti-Iraq war?
INGRAHAM: I think there's not really any doubt at this point that the media today has pretty much concluded that this is a loser. The Iraq thing is a loser.
O'REILLY: What do you mean by the media? I mean, FOX News is still there on coverage.
INGRAHAM: The mainstream — yes, the dinosaur media. I call it the dinosaur media.
FOX is not part of that. The dinosaurs, the old networks.
O'REILLY: The three networks? CNN?
INGRAHAM: Yes, CNN probably and the mainstream, so-called mainstream newspapers. I think they think Bush has really screwed this whole thing up. The war on terror has become ineffective.
O'REILLY: Do you think they're consciously skewing their reporting to make it look?
INGRAHAM: Well, when our military was cleared over the weekend of wrongdoing in another Iraqi town...
O'REILLY: The BBC report.
INGRAHAM: ... it was in the middle of the A-Section of the Washington Post and the New York Times. In the middle.
O'REILLY: Right. Where is...
INGRAHAM: I was looking through the paper over the weekend. Wait, that's a big story. And then meanwhile, front page, Haditha, Haditha, Haditha and then, you know, some other, you know, allegation of wrong doing...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198515,00.html
Fox News Sunday
INGRAHAM: I just, I don't buy it. I don't buy that people are going to think, "Mark Foley was a creep. Maybe the leadership in the beginning didn't respond the right way, so we're going to not support the people that we thought were good beforehand." I don't think that's going to happen.
I think it's exactly what the media would like to see happen. I think the dinosaur media is pumping this story as much as possible. I don't blame them. It's titillating. It's certainly more interesting perhaps than what's happening in North Korea to them. And so, this is what they're going to do.
Republicans have to make a choice here. Are they going to act like defensive cry-babies complaining about ABC News, or are they going to get on the offensive, start talking about what the Democrats do when they have this problem? They give standing ovations, pensions, and return people to office. End of story. Move on. They've got to do that, Chris.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/jack_kingston_marty_meehan_dav.html
Ingraham's appearance has caused these developments, but we still want to know, who specifically is the dinosaur media? According to Ingraham, anybody but Fox?
Ingraham "surprised" at "personal attack" by NBC president over her "hotel balcony" claim
Summary: On Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham continued her criticism of the media's coverage of the Iraq war, claiming that the "dinosaur" and "unsympathetic" media "today has pretty much concluded that this is a loser. The Iraq thing is a loser." Ingraham also said that she was "surprised" that in the wake of a car bomb explosion that killed two CBS News crew members and severely wounded correspondent Kimberly Dozier, NBC president Steve Capus would criticize her for saying that reporters in Iraq should report from the field instead of "reporting from hotel balconies." Ingraham then downplayed her original comments from March 21, claiming she said that reporting from Iraq should be about "talking to the troops" when in fact, in her original comments, Ingraham said that reporters should "go out with the Iraqi military."
On the June 6 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham continued her recent pattern of criticism of the media's coverage of the Iraq war, claiming that the "dinosaur" and "unsympathetic" media "today has pretty much concluded that this is a loser. The Iraq thing is a loser." She added that "if more of the troops' stories were told," then news out of Iraq would not be "so depressing." Ingraham also said that she was "surprised" that in the wake of a car bomb explosion that killed two CBS News crew members -- cameraman Paul Douglas and freelance soundman James Brolan -- and severely wounded correspondent Kimberly Dozier, NBC president Steve Capus would criticize her for saying that reporters in Iraq should offer coverage from the field instead of "reporting from hotel balconies." Adding that Capus took "a personal tragedy ... and turn[ed] it into a personal attack," Ingraham then downplayed her original comments from March 21, claiming she said that reporting from Iraq should be about "talking to the troops" when in fact, in her original comments, Ingraham said that reporters should "go out with the Iraqi military."
During the segment, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that "Americans have tuned out the Iraq war ... because its too depressing." Ingraham replied: "But why do you think it's always so depressing? Do you think if more of the troops' stories were told ... that more Americans would believe that, actually, what's happening there is good, really is fighting evil?"
Later in the segment, when O'Reilly asked Ingraham to respond to Capus's criticism, in which he said upon learning of the CBS News casualties in Iraq: "One thing I don't want to hear anymore is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what's really happening in Iraq." Ingraham responded: "I know the NBC folks. I know Capus. I used to work with him at MSNBC. I like him. And what surprised me is that taking a personal tragedy, of here we have this brave reporter, two camera people killed. She's struggling. And you turn it into a personal attack, I don't get that." Ingraham claimed that in her original comments that Capus criticized she advised NBC to "[g]o to a military base. And you don't have -- you don't have to put yourself necessarily in danger to just talk to the troops. And so what [NBC] said was, 'Look, we have a bureau there. Matt Lauer has been there.'And I said, 'Well, yes, but doing a show from Iraq is more than reporting from a hotel balcony about IEDs. It's talking to the troops.' And that's what I think is missing in this war, Bill, is just speaking to the troops."
In fact, on the March 21 edition of NBC's Today, Ingraham said not that NBC reporters should be "speaking to the troops," but that they should "go out with the Iraqi military":
INGRAHAM: The Today show spends all this money to send people to the Olympics, which is great, it was great programming. All this money for "Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?" Bring the Today show to Iraq. Bring the Today show to Tal Afar. Do the show from the 4th ID at Camp Victory.
And then, when you talk to those soldiers on the ground, when you go out with the Iraqi military, when you talk to the villagers, when you see the children, then I want NBC to report on only the IEDs, only the killings, only the reprisals.
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To do a show from Iraq means to talk to the Iraqi military, to go out with the Iraqi military, to actually have a conversation with the people, instead of reporting from hotel balconies about the latest IEDs going off.
Concluding the segment, Ingraham asserted that the mainstream media -- or as she called it, "the dinosaur media," in which she included "the old networks," CNN, and the "so-called mainstream newspapers" -- "has pretty much concluded that this is a loser. The Iraq thing is a loser." Asked by O'Reilly if the media are "consciously skewing their reporting to make it look bad," Ingraham responded: "Well, when our military was cleared over the weekend of wrongdoing in another Iraqi town ... it was in the middle of the A section of The Washington Post and The New York Times. In the middle," a situation she contrasted with coverage of the alleged massacre at Haditha, which she claimed is "being treated as the be-all and end-all, again, by an unsympathetic media."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606080007
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