IS Judy Woodruff A Good Journalist?

Someone posted this in another thread. I don't like her, but will reconsider my position if given good reason.

and she gave him wet slobbery kiss coverage during the time she was on tv.

a corporatewhore.

She did her part to attempt to discradit Kerry in 2004 and represents the invasion of peoples' TV by the cnn crazies.

But we ARE known by the company we keep, are we not? And her husband managed to piss off the Monkey ROYALLY:

But both Bushes have a darker side that occasionally breaks through the public facade. In private, President Bush would rant about political enemies in a tone reminiscent of President Richard Nixon. George W. Bush sometimes flashes a personal mean streak, too.

In early April 1986, for instance, George W. was miffed at a prediction by the Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt that Jack Kemp -- not Vice President Bush -- would win the GOP nomination in 1988. At a Dallas restaurant, Bush spotted Hunt having dinner with his wife, Judy Woodruff, and their four-year-old son.

Bush stormed up to the table and started cursing out Hunt. "You son of a bitch," Bush yelled. "I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this."

Bush supporters have excused the governor's behavior that occurred before his 40th birthday on the grounds that Bush was still drinking heavily in those days.
http://consortiumnews.com/1999/100599a1.html



I am given to understand that the deleted expletive was 'fucking.' What a classic use of language around a four year old. Gee, imagine that kid today--he's in his twenties now, and can tell all his friends he heard the President of the United States call his dad a fucking son of a bitch! That's a badge of honor, these days.

Her last couple of years on CNN had to be torture for her, the stories that she had to do.

She's really good. Be glad for her and for us that she's being regularly seen again.

have you seen ANY of these stories about what a useless, worthless shill she's been for MANY years?

http://www.google.com/search?q=judy+woodruff+daily+howler&hl=en

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=judy+woodruff+media+matters&btnG=Google+Search

and, again, my favorite little snippet about what a WONDERFUL, serious journo is judy:


http://bottleofblog.typepad.com/bottleofblog/2004/03/woodruff_raises.html

just watched Richard Clarke interviewed by Judy Woodruff on Late Edition. For those of you who missed it, here's a quick summary:

WOODRUFF: You're saying that President Bush is lying.

CLARKE: No, Judy, I'm not.

WOODRUFF: You're saying that President Bush is responsible for 9/11.

CLARKE: No, Judy, I'm not.

WOODRUFF: You're saying that President Bush ignored terrorism after 9/11.

CLARKE: No, Judy, I'm not.

WOODRUFF: You're saying a lot of things I don't like. I'm going to have Richard Perle on now to calm me.

My favorite moments were when Judy Woodruff asked if some of the blame doesn't rest with Bill Clinton for failing to adequately educate the public on the dangers of al-Qaeda. And Clarke had to patiently explain to Judy Woodruff that Bill Clinton gave dozens of speaches regarding terrorism, but that they received little attention from the press, which was in a berzerk frenzy over sex in the White House.

Judy also asked if Bill Clinton's problems with Monica Lewinski didn't detract from his efforts to counter terrorism. And Clarke had to patiently explain that when Clinton took action, like the cruise missile attacks against terrorist camps, the media and the Republicans in Congress accused him of "wagging the dog".

It was really amazing. Judy acted as if this was all news to her, as if she had just beamed down to earth from the Jupiter bureau of CNN, rather than having spent endless hours of non-stop Clinton scandal flogging throughout the nineties.

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at first I thought this was an attempt at satire, btw

the CNN interview....I just found the real thing

RATS!

check it out, because he does catch the drift of her attitude toward Clarke

contrast it with her quite a bit less confrontational responses/questions to Perle, which immediately follow Clarke's interview.

the whole thing is VERY interesting from a historical standpoint, demonstrating both what a complete LIAR Perle is, and how ignorant (or unwilling to confront Perle with his mendacity) Woodruff is. Neither possibility argues for consideration of her as any sort of competent journalist

so there!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Richard+Clarke+++Judy+Woodruff+++Late+Edition.+&btnG=Search

SharonAnn, I don't know where you're coming from here, but Woodruff is married to the Executive Washington Editor of The Wall Street Journal. I don't want to engage in guilt by association, but realistically people are usually not married to others whose views are fundamentally unlike their own.

More substantively, here are a few Woodruff gems from FAIR's website:


"If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a president fresh from a war victory?"
(CNN's Judy Woodruff, 5/5/03)

from http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842


CNN 's Judy Woodruff claimed (7/28/04) that the Bush-Cheney campaign "have produced reams of documents to back up votes that (Kerry) made in the United States Senate that they say show... he has not voted to support the kind of military spending that would create a strong America." (Nuisance Man's note: by putting "they say" before "show" instead of before "would create a strong America," her statement creates the impression that the only way to dispute the claims would be to argue about how he voted. The very possibility of disputing that the kind of military spending Republicans support is what is needed to create a strong America is essentially cancelled by her phrasing. This is typical of corporate media psy-ops.)

Actually, as a guest explained to Woodruff back in February (CNN, 2/25/04; see Extra!, 7-8/04), the documents the Republicans have produced focus on a single vote that Kerry cast back in 1991, presenting this vote against a Defense appropriations bill as a vote against ''every major weapons system." Nevertheless, Woodruff continued to echo the Republican line five months later (7/26/04): "You've got the Republicans practically camped outside the FleetCenter saying that what's going on here is an extreme makeover, that John Kerry has the most liberal voting record in the Senate, that he's voted against defense votes one after another, even though this convention is talking about a strong America. Are the Democrats going to be able to get away with it?"

from http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1831


"As we look back today, (the Iran-Contra scandal is) like just a speck in the eight years of (Reagan's) presidency," explained CNN 's Judy Woodruff (6/7/04).

from http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1832


CNN 's Inside Edition took this practice of amplifying GOP talking points to a new low with a segment (5/25/04) devoted to the notion that John Kerry seems, well, French. "He caught flak early in the campaign for his French connections," explained anchor Judy Woodruff. The "flak" seemed to consist of Republicans making fun of Kerry for either "looking French" or speaking the French language fluently. Anchor Wolf Blitzer got the ball rolling by announcing that "the French, of course, among other things helped to strain the alliance between the United States and its European allies over the war in Iraq." CNN then explained that Kerry has French family, and has summered in that country.

Then CNN turned the microphones on the American public. Random people interviewed on the street offered negative impressions of the French; they're uppity, arrogant, and even "international." That last word is trouble, at least to Woodruff: "A tricky word to be saddled with if you're running to lead a war-time White House and your relatives across the pond have not embraced the war."

Viewers may have been left wondering what to make of such a story: Various Republicans and right-wing pundits have done their best to turn a bigoted view of French people into a campaign issue. CNN took that bigotry and, rather than denouncing or criticizing it, decided to expand on it, connecting Kerry to various negative stereotypes about French people. Ironically, near the end of the piece Woodruff remarks that connecting Kerry to these negative feelings about the French might be dirty politics: "Some accused the GOP of speaking in code." The same charge could be made against CNN.

from http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1185


http://www.newsince.com/

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Thank you!! :blush:

:puke:

she is the greatest journalist skank for corporate media alive today.

Inside Politics show at 4pm next year when the primaries heat up.

This was back in the '80s or '90s. WOODRUFF, HUNT and their children were in a restaurant when a drunken Shrub stumbled to their table and called HUNT an a-hole, possibly with adjectives. So that might be a reason to like her.

That said, she is what might be called a "tired Liberal." That is, back when, she and others at CNN took a beating from wingnuts for supposedly being the "CLINTON News Network." While she was still at CNN under Shrub, it seemed to me that she would bend over backwards to skewer Dem guests and lob softballs at Rethugs a la Tweety.

More than bias, I think CNN in particular is hostage to ACCESS. They got gigged for covering up stories about host dictator countries. It's clear in those places that if you report certain things, you will be kicked out or kicked otherwise, so, similarly, HERE, if you are too tough on certain guests, such as WINGNUTS, they will refuse to appear in your venue. You will not be able to get top office holders and party officials as guests, much less news stories.

him about his new book, but Carter seems to love her.

It just seems so many journalists are wrapped up in their own wine-sipping, insulated worlds and I don't think they get it like EVER.

The liberal journalists are all in print.

I'm glad she left CNN.

Bush worshiper and Clinton hater.

She is in NO WAY a journalist.

it doesn't work.

and SHE was the only one I heard defending Pelosi, mentioning that she was repeating points made by Bush and Israel about Syria needing to act a certain way before meaningful talks can take place, and a few things that sounded like she must read the same things that have been posted about the trip here at DU

that said, I've made my feelings known about her elsewhere, and have provided some links to demonstrate just how egregious her shilling for the BFEE has been, for the most part