Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush's veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset of Senator Barack Obama that talking to "terrorists and radicals'' was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis. Full Story »
Posted by Elaine Meyer
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As a concise description of the incident, the piece is fairly informative. However, in that it fails to describe the context of McCain's comments and, as previous viewers have noted, fails to offer the balance of Obama's response, it is clearly not balanced reporting. Additionally, it fails to mention the issue of appropriateness (or lack thereof) of this occasion for the U.S. President to allude to domestic political contests. For a very superficial, quick read intended to familiarize readers with the basis of the controversy, it is acceptable. As the previous reviewer indicated, it fails to contribute much to the conversation.
This is not good journalism, because the author quoted extensively from McCain without providing context for his appeasement charges and an explanation of what appeasement means. Furthermore, the writer did not quote at all from Obama's response and placed her reference to it at the very end of the article.
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