Air America to Lose Flagship New York Station

Greg Sheffield
 

WH Press Corps Demands to Watch CNN

Greg Sheffield
 

Couric Concerned Clooney's Many Liberal Causes Dilute Darfur Drama

Mark Finkelstein
 

ABC & NBC Focus on Exxon Profits, Skip How Government Gets More in Tax

The broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday night hyperventilated over “record” profits for ExxonMobil, but failed to point out how government taxes exceed oil company earnings. ABC even fretted about how much ExxonMobil “spent rewarding shareholders,” though it was less than the federal government took in taxes, and NBC excoriated the company for “cashing in” at 9.5 cents per dollar. “…
Brent Baker
 

The Circle of Liberalism: O'Donnell is Vieira's Replacement on 'View

I heard first on Olbermann's "Countdown" (without Olbermann) tonight, and AP confirms: ABC will name the formerly comedic lesbian activist/former daytime host Rosie O'Donnell as Meredith Vieira's replacement on The View:O'Donnell's appointment was reported Thursday by the newsmagazine Extra. It was confirmed by a person close to the show who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of…
Tim Graham
 

Is It Plagiarism or Homage? (Late word: Publisher Withdraws Book

Jack Engelhard
 

What's a Billion Between Adversaries? CBS Overreports Exxon Profits In

Ken Shepherd
 

Katie Couric And Tim Russert's Gloomfest On Today

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Ari To O'Reilly: Stupid Questions Have Led to Media's Decline

In the first interview segment of "The O'Reilly Factor" on Wednesday night, Bill O'Reilly told former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer that it would be nice to be able to tell reporters like Helen Thomas (politely) that everyone knows they have an agenda, but they can't. (Actually, Fleischer grew confident enough to suggest that to Helen, saying after the 2002 elections, that "Helen, you sound…
Tim Graham
 

Networks Ignore How Big Government Rakes In More than Big Oil

All three network morning shows played the envy card Thursday morning, as they hyped the “record high profits” and “corporate greed” of American oil companies. High on their agenda: ExxonMobil’s announcement of $8.4 billion in profits, which the networks implied was scandalous given the high price of oil.But unstated in the network coverage was the fact that the U.S. government took in more than…
Rich Noyes
 

Bashing Big Oil, CBS Still Downplays Hugo Chavezs Use of Oil Profits

Evening News reporter uses Citgo station owner to attack oil companies, while ABC offers a more accurate perspective.
Ken Shepherd
 

Leaks, Media Double Standards and the CIA Run Amok

The Wall Street Journal had an excellent editorial yesterday on the subject of leaks which is worth quoting at length:Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that she has done anything wrong. But the agency is standing by its claim that she was dismissed last week because she "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence." It has been…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Good Morning America Hypes the Pain at the Pump, Ignores China

Brian Boyd
 

Dan Rather, Blogger

Matthew Sheffield