Ted Turner Advises CNN Not to Follow Fox News Opinion Model
Since Lou Dobbs left CNN in November, citing a mutual agreement between he and CNN President Jonathan Klein that involved CNN going in a different direction, CNN's ratings have plummeted. But Ted Turner, founder of the first truly 24-hour cable news channel, doesn't see anything wrong with the channel's heading. CNBC's Joe Kernen asked Turner if he had any problems with CNN's direction during…
Krugman's Evolving 'Conscience': Conservative 'On the Take,' Liberal D
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's double standards: A conservative radio host who was paid by the Bush administration to push its education agenda was "on the take," but a liberal professor paid by the Obama administration while pushing its health care agenda "is no big deal."When it was revealed in January 2005 that conservative radio host and commentator Armstrong Williams was paid $240,…
'Bubbles' Brzezinski Picks a Favorite Founding Father: Lincoln
Via Ed Morrisey at HotAir.com, we find out what you get when you cross a liberal, with a blonde, and a person of Polish heritage: Mika "Bubbles" Brzezinski.Coming back from commercial this morning at the MSNBC Clown Kingdom, the bump-in video clip was one of Sarah Palin’s interview with Glenn Beck. Palin stated that it took all of the Founders to come up with the Constitution, but that George…
HuffPo Religion Editor, a Baptist Preacher, Tells Pat Robertson to 'Go
File this under "WWJD FAIL."It's one thing for a sainted icon of the secular Left like Keith Olbermann to wish perdition on a controversial American televangelist, but a Christian preacher?Yet that's exactly how Huffington Post religion editor and ordained American Baptist minister Paul Raushenbush went off on Pat Robertson for his controversial "pact with the devil" remarks about this week's…
CNN: Don't Blame Harry Reid - Most White People Are Racist
After working days to deny that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said something patently racist, the media realized the story wouldn't die, and have now begun looking for fresh angles that can mitigate the damage. On Wednesday, CNN.com fell back on a favorite strategy of claiming that even though it was a racist remark, it shouldn't be surprising because everybody does it. Writer Wayne Drash…
CBS’s Katie Couric Gets Another Journalism Award for Palin Interview
In yet another testament to liberals celebrating liberals, on Thursday the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric won the Alfred I. duPont award for excellence in broadcast journalism for her slanted 2008 interview with vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. In the interview, shown over a number of days on the CBS Evening News in…
Study: On Twitter, Republicans Dominate Dems
On Twitter, Republicans are absolutely dominant, according to a recent study by a prominent Washington policy analyst. The study found that Republican politicians have far more followers and influence on the micro-blogging site than do their Democratic counterparts.GOP prominence on online social networks heralds a markedly different trend from the technologically dominant Obama presidential…
Brzezinski: Scarborough Only 'Elegant, Articulate, Non-Aggressive' Con
Fox News on-air talent, eat your heart out - that is, when it comes to Mika Brzezinski's ideal conservative. Brzezinski appeared at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 13 to promote her new book, "All Things at Once" along with her MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host and author of "The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise," Joe Scarborough. Brzezinski was…
CNN Praises Several U.S. Companies Giving Aid to Haiti
Corporations often take a beating from the news media, but on Jan. 14 CNN found a reason to praise the actions of several U.S. companies. "Corporate America contributing millions of dollars to the relief effort in Haiti as well as providing some badly needed goods and services," Heidi Collins said teasing Stephanie Elam's "Newsroom" report. Elam replied, "It's encouraging to see people reacting…
ABC’s Shipman Touts Keith Olbermann’s Slam of Pat Robertson as
Good Morning America’s Claire Shipman on Thursday highlighted Keith Olbermann’s slam of Pat Robertson as "the devil" for comments he made about the earthquake in Haiti. Co-host also George Stephanopoulos questionably spun Reverend Robertson as "one of America's top religious leaders." [Audio available here.] After explaining how Robertson asserted that the people of Haiti, long ago, "swore a…
MRC Study: After 'Negro' Comment, 71% of Network Coverage Supported Ha
The controversy over Harry Reid's crack about Barack Obama's lack of a "Negro dialect" is apparently over, at least according to the broadcast networks. Although the story only broke Saturday afternoon, the last network news story aired Tuesday night on Nightline. An MRC analysis found that from Saturday to Tuesday the networks ran a combined 37 items on Reid's "Negro" remark, including…
