Mathews receives award…
Charmie R. Snetter in The Temple News writes about Hardball’s Chris Mathews receiving the School of Communication and Theater’s Lew Klein Excellence In The Media award… (via FTVLive)
His speech centered on his career in broadcast journalism and on the impact of television.
“Television has done so much for this country,” Matthews said.
“The reason we don’t have Jim Crow [laws] in the South anymore is because of television,” Matthews said. He added that if it weren’t for TV cameras capturing the injustice occurring against African Americans in the South, many would have remained uninformed and therefore accepting of segregation practices.
He also discussed recent national news, such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According to Matthews, the pictures aired on TV allowed the truth to be told about what was really happening in New Orleans, especially with African Americans.As a result, he said, only 2 percent of African Americans now support President Bush. Nevertheless, Matthews commended journalists for their hard work in covering the disaster. He said the coverage matched up with the pictures.
“Pictures matter. … TV proved itself,” he said.
The biased Matthews uses hysteria as his policy.He crawls around looking for things to be offended by. Anyone who has watched his show can see that he cannot hide his liberal bias.
Frowning, sneering, snarling - waiting to pounce.
I check in to observe and watch for him to show some balance. But he never changes.
How could he have won this award?
Comment by Cara — November 2, 2005 @ 12:36 pm