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ABC works with moonbat blog to dig dirt on Huckabee

I’m no fan of Huck, as you folks here know.  But there’s one thing I’m less fond of, and that’s media bias.  Here, we have a clear-cut case of bias, and Kurtz doesn’t even bat an eyelash over it.  From Big Head DC:

Howie Kurtz, the media writer for the Washington Post, today uncovers a fishy relationship between a journalism giant and a liberal blog. While Kurtz didn’t make much wind about it, he reveals within an item about GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee that the Huffington Post and ABC News have teamed up to report the news.

“ABC, working with the Web site, interviewed a former parole board member who said Huckabee had pressed the panel to release the convict, Wayne Dumond,” Kurtz writes regarding a well-referenced story the Huffington Post published last week.

The quote raises an important question: How common is it for an apparently nonpartisan news source to team up with an admittedly liberal Web site in reporting a news item? Isn’t this a case of liberal media bias at its worst?

Also raising questions about the news relationship, Kurtz quotes Huckabee as saying he’s “amazed” that ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross ignored information he provided to him. 

Why is he amazed?  Ross has no need for Huck’s information, since facts only tend to get in the way of a good story sometimes. 

It’s one thing to do research obtained in part by the blogosphere (which was done, among other times, during the Rathergate fiasco, but no MSM agency actually worked with the rightosphere on that one).  It’s quite another to work in a coordinated fashion in conjunction with an admittedly partisan blog for the purposes of finding dirt on political opponents.  We now know that ABC News can go ahead and abandon any pretense of objectivity.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

December 10, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Huckabee, media bias, moonbats