STICKS and Stones

Watch the entire documentary online (runs appox 42:30)

One of the most talked-about exchanges in Sticks and Stones occurred between reporter Bob McKeown and Ann Coulter and concerned Canada's role in the Vietnam War. Watch the McKeown/Coulter exchange... (runs appox 3 min)

U.S RESPONSE

When we first aired Sticks and Stones earlier this year, the American media were quick to react, especially Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter. Take a look for yourself. (runs appox 90 secs)

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Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is the author of four New York Times bestsellers - How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)(October, 2004), Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors:The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).

She is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including Hannity and Colmes, Wolf Blitzer Reports, At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Scarborough Country, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and The O'Reilly Factor.

Ann Coulter's website

Charles Lewis
In late 1988, he quit a successful career as a producer for the CBS News program 60 Minutes and began the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog organization in Washington that investigates political influence, corruption and other ethics-related issues.

The Center under Lewis published more than 250 investigative reports, including 14 books, its work honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and others 28 times.

During this time, the Center raised and spent $30 million on its wide-ranging programmatic work, utilizing roughly 200 paid intern researchers, its findings or perspective appearing in roughly 10,000 news media stories.

Center for Public Integrity website
Charles Lewis - information from the Center of Public Integrity
Anatomy of a Lobbying Blitz: Cable industry enlists diverse crowd in high-level influence campaign - Well Connected is an ongoing investigation by the Center for Public Integrity of the businesses that control the information pipelines in the United States as well as their government overseers

Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly began working in news in 1975 in Pennsylvania. By 1989 he moved on to the syndicated show Inside Edition. According to his website, O'Reilly began broadcasting at Fox news in 1996, and "The O'Reilly Factor," seen "weeknights on the Fox News Channel", continues to dominate the television news ratings, consistently ranking as the highest rated cable news show for more than two years. It is also carried in dozens of foreign countries.

His radio show, "The Radio Factor" is heard on more than 400 stations nationwide. He has also had three consecutive number one non-fiction books on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

Bill O'Reilly's website

Bernard Goldberg
Bernard Goldberg spent nearly thirty years at CBS News, where he won an Emmy Award. In 1996, he wrote an op-ed article which accused CBS and the mainstream press of liberal bias. This was soon followed by the New York Times bestseller Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News and later in November 2003 he wrote Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite.

Al Franken
Al Franken is a television writer and producer. He hosts a show on the Air America Radio network, and is the best-selling author of several books including Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, and Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. In 2003, he was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Air America Radio

Richard Mellon Scaife
In 1999, the Washington Post published a series of feature articles on Richard Mellon Scaife and the causes he funds.

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