2006 Misinformer of the Year
Posted on | December 23, 2006
Media Matters has handed ABC its Misinformer of the Year Award for ‘06. The network hardly bothered trying to conceal its bias:
This year saw ABC air The Path to 9/11, a two-part miniseries that placed the blame for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Clinton administration and whitewashed some of the Bush administration’s failures leading up to the attacks. Additionally, the network’s news coverage frequently reported Republican spin as fact, passed on falsehoods propagated by conservatives, and missed numerous opportunities to challenge or question the administration’s actions during solo interviews with Bush and key members of his administration.
These examples, and many more, earned ABC the distinction of being named Media Matters‘ Misinformer of the Year for 2006. The selection of an entire network for the honor represents a change from previous years, when individual media figures — Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly in 2004 and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2005 — received the award. But a look at some of its most flagrant examples of conservative misinformation confirms that ABC won the Misinformer of the Year the old-fashioned way: The network earned it.
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