Jeff Cohen worked in the belly of the beast as a panelist/commentator over the years at all three cable news channels.
He founded FAIR, the New York-based media watch group. He's also been a nationally-syndicated columnist and was the communications director of the Kucinich for President campaign. Major cred.
Here is his speech made at ILCA (Intl. Labor Communications Assoc.) workshop in Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2004.
Viewers of Fox News, where I worked for years, were the most misled. But strong majorities of CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN viewers were also confused on at least one of these points. Among those informed on all 3 questions, only 23 percent supported Bush's war.
How can you have a meaningful election in a country where, according to polls, half or more of the American people don't know who attacked us on 9/11? They think Saddam Hussein was involved.
To help Bush mislead Americans, Fox News Channel required that the banner "War on Terror" run when Iraq was discussed.
(more excerpts below, but you gotta read the whole article)
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