CBS Now Farming Out the Bias to College Kids

Looks like "Couric & Co." are looking for summer interns for CBS's "Springboard" program. And college journalism students are in luck, they can write up an original story on global warming to get the job:Here is how it works. First, create an original story based on one of three topics: climate change; the American Spirit; or Iraq war veterans. These are issues that have all received…
Ken Shepherd

CNN's Blitzer, Cafferty Regret Minimum Wage Hike Not Retroactive

On Monday's The Situation Room, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty expressed frustration that the Democratic Congress has not yet passed a minimum wage increase, even lamenting that the increase could not be made retroactive. After Blitzer seemed to seriously ask if the minimum wage increase could be made retroactive to November, Cafferty rhetorically exclaimed that it should be "retroactive to…
Brad Wilmouth

Jan LaRue Joins CMI's Board of Advisors

Lawyer and commentator will advise, write for MRC's Culture and Media Institute
CMI

NBC's Today Show Labels Purity Movement 'Controversial

Children abstaining from sex until adulthood appears to be an alien concept in certain media circles.
Kristen Fyfe

On War Anniversary, Nets Stress Dire Views of Iraqis, Skip How Iraqis

ABC anchor Charles Gibson led on Monday night, the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, with the results of a door-to-door survey of more than 2,000 Iraqis conducted for ABC News (and USA Today). Gibson started the “sobering report” with how “fewer than half the Iraqis, just 42 percent, said life was better now than it was under Saddam Hussein.” Gibson, however, failed to explain…
Brent Baker

The Uncontrolled Demolition of Rosie O'Donnell

Has Rosie O'Donnell gone from being just another vociferous media liberal to a full-blown 9-11 conspiracy theorist? It would appear so. Have a look at Rosie's recent blog entry, wherein she serves up an array of controlled-demolition eccentricity. Turns out, according to O'Donnell, 9-11 was all a big plot to do away with FBI and other investigative files on Smith Barney, WorldCom and . . .…
Mark Finkelstein

'World News' Leaves Out Lenders' Two Cents

Julia A. Seymour

CNN Portrays Foreign Investment in America as Sign of Economic Decline

Kitty Pilgrim gives her opinion that the administration's trade policies are a 'failure.'
Amy Menefee

Walters Gushes Over ‘Dignified,’ ‘Warm,’ and ‘Friendly’ Hu

On the Friday edition of "Nightline," "20/20" anchor Barbara Walters appeared again to plug her sycophantic interview with Hugo Chavez, the virulently anti-American leader of Venezuela. According to the ABC host, Chavez, who has called President Bush a murderer and a killer, simply likes to "poke fun at American leaders." During a discussion with "Nightline" host Martin Bashir, she also described…
Scott Whitlock

NY Times' Edward Wong Finds Way to Spin Bad News out of Iraq Troop Inc

Clay Waters

On Four Year Anniversary, 'Early Show' Accentuates Negative on Iraq

Justin McCarthy

'View' Co-Hosts Discuss Hugo Chavez, Ignore Censorship Policies

Justin McCarthy

ABC Parrots Cuomo's Attack on Loan Industry

'World News' doesn't explain why loans are bad, glosses over lenders' perspective.
Julia A. Seymour

While Grilling Rice, GMA’s Sawyer Cites Ultra Left-Wing Guardian

On the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about Iraq's progress. Sawyer chose to cite the liberal, America-bashing British paper The Guardian as a source for a question and also indicated that it was the United States, not insurgents, that was responsible for Iraq’s declining electricity supply.…
Scott Whitlock