Newscasts Lead with Phone Database; Unlike CBS, ABC & NBC Note Congres

Matching the agenda of the morning shows, Thursday's network evening newscasts led with USA Today's front page story, “NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls," with none noting how the New York Times reported the same information back on December 24. Unlike CBS, however, both ABC and NBC at least pointed out how many Members of Congress were aware of how Verizon, AT&T and Bell…
Brent Baker
 

Where Are The Riots of Yesteryear? Matthews Laments Lack of Campus Ma

Mark Finkelstein
 

Albright: Kim Jong Il Is "Not A Nut

Greg Tinti
 

Jack Cafferty's Words of "Wisdom": Specter Preventing Bush "Dictatorsh

During today's 4pm EDT hour of CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty expressed his "outrage" over the revelation that the National Security Agency has been compiling a national database of phone records from AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. Referring to Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter’s demand that the phone companies testify before Congress regarding this issue, Cafferty angrily…
Megan McCormack
 

Katie Demands "American Idol" Female Quota, PBS Producer Mocks Reagan

Tim Graham
 

Hawaii PBS Chief Steps Down to Run for State Democratic Party Chair

Tim Graham
 

Media Concerned about Government Having Phone Numbers

But government tax collectors know far more about you than the NSA learned from phone companies.
Ken Shepherd
 

Troops in Iraq Say Media Make Americans 'Run up the White Flag

Greg Sheffield
 

Hyping USA Today's "Big Brother" Bombshell: TV Jumps on Stale NSA Data

Seismic! Shocking! Startling! A bombshell!! That’s how the ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows described a front-page story in today’s (Thursday’s) USA Today that breathlessly touted how “NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls.” Like the TV coverage, USA Today’s story insinuated that the existence of the database was a major violation of Americans’ privacy rights and evidence that the…
Rich Noyes
 

Oprah Apparently Doesn't Want to Know How Cooper Inspires You

Matthew Sheffield
 

Snow Starts Out Swinging, CBS Hits Back at 'Manipulating' WH

Matthew Sheffield
 

Scientists Find Evidence of Global Warming…More Than 10,000 Years Ag

Reuters reported a startling scientific find on Wednesday that certainly brings into question the current hysteria surrounding global warming (hat tip to Drudge): “Climate shifts were probably responsible for the extinction of the mammoth and other species more than 10,000 years ago, not over-hunting by humans, according to new research published on Wednesday.” How does this fit into the global…
Noel Sheppard
 

Update: April Tax Revenues 2nd-Highest in History; Will Media Notice

A stunning announcement was made by the Treasury Department Wednesday. As reported by the Associated Press: “A flood of income tax payments pushed up government receipts to the second-highest level in history in April, giving the country a sizable surplus for the month.”(Update: At the end of this piece, I predicted this announcement would not be widely reported. Well, though all three broadcast…
Noel Sheppard
 

N.Y. Times Notes Liberal Outrage at Hillary, Not Conservative Outrage

Tim Graham