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Clay Waters | August 4th, 2005 11:23 AM
American freelance journalist Steven Vincent has become the first American journalist to be attacked and killed in the Iraq War.Unlike many (most?) journos covering the war in Iraq, Vincent supported the invasion, calling it part of a much larger campaign against "Islamo-fascism."Also, unlike many big-time journalists who report from the relative security of Baghdad's "Green Zone" (without…
Greg Sheffield | August 4th, 2005 1:44 AM
It's ironic how feminist journalists, always decrying the unfair standards of beauty for women, could turn around and attack Katherine Harris for her makeup. TAMPA - During the presidential election recount of 2000, Florida was in a white-hot spotlight, focused on a woman not accustomed to national publicity - then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris.
Harris' decision against a ballot…
John Armor | August 4th, 2005 1:30 AM
A story by Mike Allen and R. Jeffrey Smith in the Washington Post on 3 August, 2005, reviewed many of the background documents just released concerning Judge John Roberts, nominee for the US Supreme Court. The article’s title got the subject right, “Judges Should Have 'Limited' Role, Roberts Says.” However, once the authors got into the basis of Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade, their…
Dave Pierre | August 3rd, 2005 7:21 PM
Today's (Wed. August 3, 2005) Los Angeles Times has a story about a child-support lawsuit in Oregon between a woman and the (Catholic) Archdiocese of Portland. Although the article states, "liberal and conservative Catholics around the country are decrying the archdiocese's legal strategy," the Times delivers unequal treatment to Catholic individuals and lay groups when labeling whether they…
Edward L. Daley | August 3rd, 2005 6:51 PM
Ever since last Friday, when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced that he would support loosening restrictions on the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the "mainstream" media has become absolutely giddy over the prospect of George W. Bush bowing to political defeat on the issue.
This is no surprise, however, since most journalists generally support left-wing sociopolitical…
Ken Shepherd | August 3rd, 2005 2:46 PM
Sunday's 60 Minutes closed, as usual, with a crabby commentary by everyone's favorite curmudgeon, Andy Rooney. His kvetch of the week had to do with how much people incessantly using cell phones annoys him.Now, perhaps in a spirit of corporate synergy, today's Against the Grain column by CBS News's Dick Meyer happens to be about how much people incessantly using cell phones annoys him.
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| August 3rd, 2005 2:00 PM
Energy: Regulation and Rewards, not Freedom Media blast oil companies, lawmakers but fail to investigate financial boost to inefficient energy source.
By Amy Menefee August 3, 2005
Broadcasters used coverage of the recently passed energy bill as…
Dan Gainor | August 3rd, 2005 2:00 PM
Times Blinded By Hazy View of Reality Dramatically cleaner air downplayed in a story about threats to Clean Air Act because troubles remain.
By Dan Gainor August 3, 2005
Rudyard Kipling once wrote that East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall…
Ken Shepherd | August 3rd, 2005 12:20 PM
In 2003, Mike Paranzino, a conservative activist, organized BoycottCBS.com in response to the Tiffany Network planning to air a horrendously biased (not to mention poorly acted) miniseries on Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Paranzino and others were successful in getting CBS to drop-kick the dramatic monstrosity to a sister cable network Showtime.
Fast forward to today, and CBS and Paranzino again…
Lisa Fabrizio | August 3rd, 2005 8:58 AM
Despite assertions otherwise, the liberal media in general and the AP specifically continue to make Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ Catholic faith an issue. In a piece called, “Roberts, Catholics at center of scrutiny,” they titularly admit it.
Richard N. Ostling’s first paragraph:
If John Roberts is confirmed, he will be the fourth Roman Catholic on the Supreme…
Ken Shepherd | August 3rd, 2005 8:42 AM
When is a baby a baby? Apparently for the media not when in the womb, even if that child is "planned and wanted" as former Clinton Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders was wont of saying. Reporting on the recent birth of Susan Anne Catherine Torres, the daughter of Virginia woman Susan Torres, who suffered a stroke resulting in brain death in May, CBS Early Show correspondents used medical jargon…
Clay Waters | August 3rd, 2005 6:57 AM
The Pentagon has admitted an "egregious" fault in using the same quote from an anonymous Iraqi in two press releases 11 days apart.
Besides one brief mention last week, however, there's been no comment from the New York Times, which is rather surprising -- or perhaps not, given the Times' own quote-recycling history.
Tim Graham | August 3rd, 2005 4:08 AM
Ken, it's sad to see coverage of embryonic stem cell research in general, which often omits is that the embryo is currently destroyed before the stem cells can be extracted. All the sympathy is expended on the Cody Unsers, who we recognize as fully human, but the embryos don't even have a cute ultrasound picture to show us they're fully human.
John Armor | August 3rd, 2005 1:53 AM
This is a public service since the only people besides me who saw Tucker Carlson’s “The Situation” on MSNBC on 1 August, 2005, were probably an Irish Setter and three bowls of goldfish. Carlson introduced the subject that Atkins International, the company founded by Dr. Robert Atkins, had just filed for bankruptcy. Dr. Atkins had died 17 April, 2003, in a coma after striking his head in a fall…
Ken Shepherd | August 2nd, 2005 11:03 PM
CBS News's Mark Knoller yesterday took some time in the White House Booth over on CBSNews.com to root through email and answer some questions. Most of the ones he featured were heavily skewed to the left, accusing the media of being too soft on the Bush administration.
I'm not sure how Knoller culled the email questions he answered, maybe it's just proof that CBS News's tiny remaining audience…
Dustin Hawkins | August 2nd, 2005 9:55 PM
The Washington Post tosses the fluff title: "Vacationing Bush Poised to Set a Record."
The vacation hysteria, remember, is something that Michael Moore was hyperventilating about in his "blockbuster" movie, where apparently all Bush does is vacation.
But at least the opening sentence doesn't get too preachy about it: "President Bush is getting the kind of break most Americans can…
Barb Stock | August 2nd, 2005 8:12 PM
On November 9, 1979/> a group of radical Islamic “college students” overran the American embassy in Iran/>/> and took 52 embassy personal and marines prisoner. For 444 long days, Americans were held hostage against all international law and the very act of entering the American embassy was an act of war. These hostages were abused and…
Brent Baker | August 2nd, 2005 3:40 PM
Brent Baker is VP for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center, where he writes the daily CyberAlert e-mail report.
Dan Gainor | August 2nd, 2005 2:00 PM
Atkins Bankruptcy Stories on Low-Substance Diet Media focus on end to a craze, but wheres the beef about how business responded with healthy lifestyle foods?
By Dan Gainor August 2, 2005
The Atkins Diet was one of the major players in the American weight…
Michael Chapman | August 2nd, 2005 12:23 PM
Much of the European media and some of the U.S. press are picking up on a story about nine babies buried in various places around a home in Germany.
Woman arrested as nine babies are found dead in garden. While people are obviously horrified by what has happened, it is interesting to note a salient point that the media are not reporting: thousands of babies are murdered in Europe every…