NB Media Roundup: Liberal Infighting, Journo-Casulties and Our Old Fav
January 30th, 2006 12:41 AM
Democrats have figured out how to use the interwebs thingy. Staffers of Democrat representative Marty Meehan have gone into Wikipedia and removed all the (truthful) things they didn't like. Meanwhile, politicians wag a finger at Google for basically doing the exact same thing. You probably haven't heard anything about this story though because it was a Democrat and unless Karl Rove changes his…
NY Times Indicts, Prosecutes, and Convicts Bush For Terrorist Surveill
January 29th, 2006 11:23 AM
If there was any doubt that the New York Times thoroughly despised President Bush, the last shreds were erased this morning. In an editorial entitled “Spies, Lies, and Wiretaps,” the Times presented a case against the Bush administration with similar gusto as it might attack an organized crime family and it’s Mafia Don. Assuming it had already received an indictment, the Times then prosecuted its…
Schieffer Asks Bush If U.S. “Losing Moral High Ground?”& Touts
January 27th, 2006 7:56 PM
Bob Schieffer mostly posed unobjectionable questions on the news of the day (Hamas, Iran, etc.) to President George W. Bush in an interview conducted Friday and then excerpted on the CBS Evening News. But he did pose three inquiries from the agenda of the left which caught my attention. Schieffer wanted to know, in reference to NSA eavesdropping, if Bush thinks “there is anything that a…
CBS Evening News, But Not Web Site, Picks Up on Majority Backing of Ea
January 27th, 2006 12:05 AM
Despite the decision by the editors of CBSNews.com not to highlight the finding in a new CBS News/New York Times poll, of how 61 percent believe President Bush authorized wiretaps in order to “fight terrorism,” with just 29 percent saying he did it just to “expand the powers of the presidency,” on Thursday's CBS Evening News John Roberts alerted viewers to the finding. Roberts relayed: “On the…
Media Make Their Priorities Crystal Clear – Bring Back Hurricane Kat
January 25th, 2006 2:28 PM
There’s an old rule in marketing – stick to what sells. Lately, it appears that America’s media are doing exactly that.Since the significant rebound in the president’s poll numbers from their October lows, along with an apparent lack of outrage by the public concerning the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and revelations of domestic eavesdropping by the National Security Agency, the media seem to…
Early Show Still Up In Arms Over "Domestic Spying
January 25th, 2006 8:20 AM
I know how hard it is to write a headline that's accurate and short and grabbing. But we really should shoot for all three -- accurate, short and grabbing. I don't think 'domestic spying' makes it.- General Michael Hayden, former NSA director, speaking to the National Press Club on January 23 On CBS, The Early Show opened this morning with a discussion of the NSA's electronic surveillance program…
