Countdown guest host, Chris Hayes, speaks with Media Matters’ Ari Rabin-Havt about the recent study showing how Fox News viewers are, well, sorely misinformed.
CBS News uses misleading headline in an interview by Katie Couric with Julian Assange. Entitled “When Did Assange Know Pvt. Manning?” the interview makes it clear that Assange and Wikileaks have never met or communicated with Bradley Manning.
…when CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric spoke with Assange earlier, he denied that he’d had any contact with Manning.
Julian Assange: Our technology means we don’t know who is submitting us materials. But the name Bradley Manning was first heard by us when we read an article about his arrest in Wired magazine.
Katie Couric: So neither you nor WikiLeaks provided any technical assistance to Private Manning before he exfiltrated this information?
Assange: Well, I assume that is correct. Now, remember, we’ve never heard the name of Bradley Manning before. But it’s interesting you’re raising that particular question, because it’s something that appears to be coming out of attempts to conflate media activities with espionage. That’s a serious business.
So why the deceptive headline? Surely, some readers are disappointed to discover there was no answer to the headline because the question posed, doesn’t apply to the interview. So why the headline?
This may seem a small thing but coupled with other media ‘spin’ not only on the Wikileaks’ matter but on many other critical issues it is becoming an increasing serious problem.
