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Senate Health Bill Funds Abortion; Media Mostly Mum
Major newspapers and networks have been ignoring the question of abortion coverage in the new health care bill sponsored by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. The only newspapers to even mention abortion coverage since the bill was released on September 16 were The Boston Globe, The Oregonian, and The Orlando Sentinel - all of which were editorials. The Boston Globe only mentioned in passing that the…
Couric Bubbly Over Soda Tax, Fails to Consider Idea Obnoxious to Avera
"It's the most explosive moment for the soda industry since the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment," CBS's Katie Couric quipped of a proposed federal soda tax in her September 18 Notebook video on CBSNews.com (embedded at right).While careful not to explicitly endorse a proposed one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, Couric hinted that taxing sodas could help curb obesity, because, after all, "…
How the Media Legitimized Perez Hilton, Cyber-Bully Extraordinaire
Perez Hilton has proved that demonstrable talent or skill is no longer a prerequisite for fame. These days, all that's needed is a proclivity for peddling the sleaziest material imaginable. Hilton created a career for himself out of enhancing paparazzi shots of celebrities with crude white drawings of genitalia and bodily fluids and posting them on his blog, PerezHilton.com. He regularly…
NY Times Writer Worries That Mother Nature Not Cooperating With Global
Come on, Andy... 'fess up. Admit that you have been reading NewsBusters, particulary the story posted by your humble correspondent on Sunday about how the U.S. media has been ignoring observations of a noted climate scientist, Professor Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute, that we are entering a period in which the earth is likely to cool for a period of one to two decades.The very day…
Alternet: Christians are the Real Haters
It takes a breathtaking lack of self-awareness, or selective amnesia, or just bald hypocrisy for the left-wing blogosphere to speculate on the cause of “right-wing hatemongering.” But there it was on Sept. 21 – an article asserting that the “anti-Obama hyperventilating” was the result of … Christianity.Appearing on Alternet.org, Frank Schaeffer’s “Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity…
75% Say Americans Getting Ruder, Is the Media Responsible
A just-released Rasmussen survey found 75 percent of respondents believe Americans are getting ruder and more uncivilized.If this is true, is it being caused by a downturn in the economy that clearly has made the public uneasy for obvious reasons, or are citizens just mimicking the caustic tone they've seen from political leaders the past couple of years as well as that exhibited by prominent…
ABC Perpetuates Myth of Violent Pro-Lifers
It's standard journalistic practice to put the most important information at the very beginning of an article. For ABC News, it appeared the most pertinent facts about Irene Vilar, a woman who had 15 abortions in 16 years, were her fears about how pro-life activists would receive her new book, "Impossible Motherhood." ABC reporter Susan Donaldson James perpetuated the myth of raging pro-…
Be Green, Use a Condom -- Dobbs Contends 'Hide-Bound Orthodoxies' Prev
This could be dismissed as anti-human - but the theory the environment can be saved by encouraging the use of birth control is one that has been popular with media some environmentalists. CNN's Lou Dobbs certainly hasn't shied away from the idea. On his Sept. 21 broadcast, Dobbs revisited an early report that the true path to environmental salvation wasn't by curbing greenhouse gas, but instead…
Be Green, Use a Condom -- Dobbs Contends 'High-Bound Orthodoxies' Prev
CNN segment follows up on a story that suggests population control is more effective helping the environment than greenhouse gas reduction.
Letterman Glows to Obama: 'I Can't Tell You How Satisfying It Is to Wa
David Letterman, who still regularly ridicules former President George W. Bush – and has even accused him of committing “war crimes” and lacking “humanity” – didn't hide his affinity for Barack Obama during his Monday night Late Show interview of the President, while remaining unable to contain his disgust for Bush. “I can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch you work,” a beaming…
Perez Hilton: Coarsening the Culture One Blog Post at a Time
The media embrace him and Hollywood appeases him. But Hilton is nothing more than a vulgar cyber-bully.
CNN's Sanchez Again Bashes Fox News, 'Pudgy-Faced' Glenn Beck
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez again attacked Fox News on Monday’s Newsroom, implying the channel wasn’t a “real news organization,” and bizarrely labeled Glenn Beck “pudgy-faced.” Unsurprisingly, Sanchez continued his silence concerning his own network’s left-wing bias [audio clips from the segment are available here].The anchor began the segment by summarizing his attack on the Fox News Channel from…