Nine Months After Portending “Civil War” in Iraq, CBS's Schieffer
February 23rd, 2006 12:30 AM
Nine months ago, CBS anchor Bob Schieffer painted Iraq as spiraling into civil war. It didn't happen then, yet on Wednesday night Schieffer renewed his ominous forecast. But unlike in May, this time his ABC and NBC anchor colleagues expressed the same prospect. Back on May 19 of last year, Schieffer teased the CBS Evening News with this unique warning: "Good evening. I'm Bob Schieffer. It just…
Pacifica Radio Fundraiser of Celeb Readings: Marisa Tomei as Cindy She
February 22nd, 2006 6:20 PM
The hard-left Pacifica Radio network is a network of five public radio stations in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Houston. Together, these stations have regularly drawn about a combined $1 million a year in federal money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (For a while, conservative Rep. Joel Hefley would push an amendment every year to reduce the federal CPB budget by…
Minneapolis ABC Station Denies Pro-Iraq War Ad, Loves Anti-Iraq War Ne
February 22nd, 2006 10:21 AM
When Progress for America tried to air a commercial with Minnesota veterans defending U.S. war policy in Iraq, they soon found their money was no good at KSTP - Channel 5. What was the offending remark in the ad that caused this censorship? The message contains the idea "That the media only reports the bad news" and "you would never know it from the news reports, but the enemy in Iraq is al…
NPR Thrice Promoted Salon.com’s Rehash of Abu Ghraib
February 18th, 2006 12:46 PM
National Public Radio provided publicity to the leftist website Salon.com on three shows Thursday for their release of previously unseen (if not notably different) pictures of American abuses at Abu Ghraib. Nowhere in their three dollops of publicity did NPR label Salon as liberal or left-wing, or explain that they oppose President Bush and the war in Iraq.
U.S. Soldier From 184 Infantry Reports: "We Were Smeared" By the Media
February 13th, 2006 12:10 AM
Robert C.J. Parry, a first lieutenant in the California Army National Guard's 1st battalion of the 184 Infantry, has published a must-see op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times (Sunday, February 12, 2006), entitled, "The war you didn't see." In the piece, he reports something that is rarely reported but has been known by many all along: The mainstream media has been giving our troops a raw deal by…
Olbermann's New Anti-War Signoff Mocks "Mission Accomplished
February 11th, 2006 2:19 PM
After President Bush delivered his speech on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in April 2003 welcoming U.S. troops home from Iraq and declaring an end to major combat operations, the media for some time sought to embarrass Bush each time American soldiers were killed by recounting how many U.S. troops had died since that speech, and by referring to the "Mission Accomplished" sign displayed at the time.…
