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CNN's Cafferty: 'The Dumb Ones Watch Fox
What do you do when you’re a cable news network struggling to keep up in the ratings? Do you lure viewers away from your competitor with programming that they would want to watch, or alienate those same viewers by insulting their intelligence?The latter seems to be the strategy for CNN’s Jack Cafferty. Shortly before 5pm EDT on the June 22 The Situation Room, Cafferty made this remark to…
Earth's Temp at 400-Year High -- Again
In an Associated Press story today, Study Says Earth's Temp at 400-Year High (hat tip to Drudge), AP press writer, John Heilprin brings us the "hot" news from the National Academy of Sciences:The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress,…
CBS Latches Onto Liberal Group's Study on Prescription Drug Choice
Reporter Wyatt Andrews leaves out group's ideological leanings towards socialized medicine.
Chung, Rather Show How Not to End a Career
Reality often is stranger than fiction, the saying goes. An author writing the story of former anchor partners Dan Rather and Connie Chung's lives would never have had the temerity to have them both get canned within a week of each other. Not after the two's well-known history of bickering and fighting with each other. Yet that's exactly what happened. Seattle Post-Intelligencer TV critic Melanie…
Update: Gay Columnist Mulls Suit Against Paper
You may remember my report yesterday about the gay feature writer who was marshall of the gay pride parade that his newspaper helped sponsor. You may remember how his newspaper supported him even though it clearly destroyed the impartial view of both him and his newspaper. Well he still isn't happy. He isn't showing up for work and he's got a lawyer. Mayk stressed the dispute did not get Whelan…