Vieira, Joy Behar Have Long Farewell Kiss After Asking, 'What Would Ro
June 9th, 2006 4:38 PM
Meredith Vieira departed ABC's The View (registration required) today and she certainly went out with, uh, a bang. At 11:36AM EDT, co-host Joy Behar toasted Vieira, who will join the Today show in September. She remarked, "I’m so upset....And I just don’t know how to express it, you know? I thought to myself, what would Rosie O’Donnell do?" Then Behar took Vieira in her arms and the two engaged…
By 58-36%, Most Want Ban on Same-Sex Marriage, Yet Gibson Says Public
June 6th, 2006 12:04 AM
A new ABC News poll found that by a 22-point margin -- 58 to 36 percent -- a solid majority of Americans believe “same-sex marriage should be illegal,” yet, on Monday’s World News Tonight, ABC anchor Charles Gibson declared that “the polls show Americans are fairly evenly split on this issue.” ABCNews.com headlined its story, “Most Oppose Gay Marriage; Fewer Back an Amendment,” and reporter Jake…
NBC’s ‘Today’ Describes Statutory Rape Case as ‘A Love Against
May 26th, 2006 4:10 PM
The Today show doesn’t like to judge. In the past, they have used the HBO series Big Love as a pretext to describe polygamy as the "next civil rights battle." They also had a serious piece on an "artist" who was promoting female public nudity. And now we have the lighter side of child rape. The May 26 edition of NBC’s Today featured an interview with Mary Kay LeTourneau. You may remember her as…
MSNBC's Countdown Sees GOP 'Hard Turn to the Right' Alienating Middle
May 20th, 2006 2:19 AM
On Friday's Countdown show on MSNBC, substitute host Brian Unger lived up to Keith Olbermann's habitually liberal standards as he portrayed recent efforts by Senate Republicans to declare English America's official language and to ban gay marriage as a "hard turn to the right." He hearkened back to the "exclusionary rhetoric" of the 1992 Republican convention that spelled a "political disaster"…
