It Matters!

I had a conversation last night in which it was agreed that Media Matters sometimes gets excessively nit-picky. Such was my reaction when I first saw this item. So CNN (without acknowledging it) cut 23 seconds of applause down to five, in a clip of Rev. Joseph Lowery criticizing President Bush's Iraq policy at Coretta Scott King's funeral. Who cares, right? So what if they edited down the applause?

Well, shame on me. Turns out Fox News later did the same thing and one of its pundits took advantage of the trick to spin the crowd's reaction in such a way as to make Bush look good -- "it wasn't exactly uproarious in its response" to Lowery's criticism, said Mort Kondracke. Well, sure, not if it only appauded for five seconds.

Sorry, Media Matters, I take it all back.