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Fox News Promo Slams Other Cable News Outlets
Fans of Fox News's the "O'Reilly Factor" are familiar with a war started by the host over liberal bias in the media. It appears that Bill O'Reilly's employer is also interested in this fight, and that the battle over media bias is on: For its opening salvo, Fox News aired a new promo Saturday which pointed a huge and unmistakably…
Evening News Viewership Was Down about 10% in
So when are the Big Three Networks going to do something about their hopelessly outmoded and out-of-touch evening-news dinosaurs?
The 2006 report on The State of the News Media from Journalism.org, which covered 2005 results, showed that the Big 3 Networks' evening news audience that year averaged 27 million (the exact number is not noted, but inferred from reading the graph at the link; if…
Lying By Omission: NBC's Never-In-Love Chip Mogul Was Married for Five
Earlier this week, I wrote about NBC’s giddy, pop-music-backed "No Man Required" segment on "choice moms," single women who choose to have babies without fathers. The primary subject of reporter Janet Shamlian’s piece was attractive businesswoman Stacy Madison: "Having spent years focused on her career, when she wasn't in love at 39, Stacy Madison went shopping at a Boston sperm bank and came…
Gabler: '24' Creator 'Right-Wing Fanatic'; Hall: Show Plays to 'Parano
Interesting panel discussion about "24" on last evening's Fox News Watch. On the one hand, lefty Neal Gabler actually defended the show. Mentioning that he likes Keith Olbermann "very much," Gabler continued:"I disagree with Keith Olbermann in this situation. I look at '24' as being like a 527 [tax-exempt groups that engage in political activity]. It's bringing up that issue about terrorism,…
Weekend Captionfest II
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In this photo released by ABC, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, poses with 'Good Morning America' co-host Diane Sawyer, in Washington, DC, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. The interview airs on 'Good Morning America' Friday, Jan. 19. (AP Hotot/ABC, Lauren Victoria Burke)
O’Reilly Debates ‘24’ Being Anti-Muslim With CAIR Legal Director
Here’s a shocker: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is unhappy about the hit television series “24”. Imagine that.With that in mind, CAIR’s legal director, Arsalan Iftikhar, went on the “O’Reilly Factor” Friday to discuss his organization’s views on this subject (video available here). O’Reilly marvelously set the discussion up:Isn't this political correctness gone crazy? I mean, let's…
O’Reilly Meets Colbert Creates Huge Ratings Spikes
As reported by NewsBusters, Bill O’Reilly and Stephen Colbert squared off Thursday evening in well-publicized meetings on each other’s popular programs. According to the Los Angeles Times, this was a ratings bonanza for both:Colbert helped O'Reilly draw more than 2.9 million viewers, a boost of 46% over last quarter and a hike of 67% among 25- to 54-year-old viewers. With O'Reilly on his show,…
John Gibson and Danny Bonaduce Slam Alec Baldwin and Robert Redford
NewsBusters fans are certainly aware that former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce is a highly outspoken conservative that doesn’t mince words as reported here and here. On Friday, Bonaduce was John Gibson’s guest on Fox News’s “The Big Story,” and the pair took issue with the following statements recently made by Robert Redford (video available here courtesy of our friend at Ms…