Sycophantic Dan Rather Touts 'First Husband' Opportunity for Bill Clin

Dan Rather fawned over former President Bill Clinton, and giddily promoted Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, in a new story for the New Year’s day 60 Minutes ostensibly focused on Clinton’s effort to get low-priced AIDS medicines into China. Rather pointed out how Clinton couldn’t take Air Force One on a trip to China, and wondered: “Do you miss it?" Clinton said he misses the workplace on it…
Brent Baker
 

Rather Delivers Clinton Fluff Piece On 60 Minutes

On tonight's edition of 60 Minutes Dan Rather was supposed to interview Former President Bill Clinton for the "work" his foundation has done for AIDS relief. However, it quickly turned into a fluff piece that promoted his Presidency, how much he accomplished, and his hopes to be the First Husband. Clinton blames those big bad pharmaceutical industries for charging high prices for medicine…
Ian Schwartz
 

Where Will Media Stocks Head in

Will "old media's" finances continue to erode in 2006, or will upstart media companies finally get their comeuppance? I'm guessing it will be some combination of the two. Over at the Hollywood Reporter, Paul Bond thinks that after three straight years of declines, big media stocks will reverse course.
Matthew Sheffield
 

Chicago Tribune Labels Very Liberal Congressman 'Mainstream Democrat

Mike Bates
 

Ring in the Gloom Year: Today's Top 2006 Stories - Job Woes, White-Col

Mark Finkelstein
 

Worst Quotes of the Year, Clinton Years Edition

Tim Graham
 

Worst Quotes of the Year, Bush the First Edition

Tim Graham
 

ESPN's Berman: "Feets Don't Fail Me Now

Mark Finkelstein
 

Gabler's Complaint: Media's Iraq Coverage Not Negative Enough

Mark Finkelstein
 

Judge Issuing Letterman Restraining Order Is a What

Mike Bates
 

Henican Forgets There's a War On - Pinkerton Reminds Him

Mark Finkelstein
 

ABC Fails to Note Bush-Bashing “Constitutional Scholar” Writes for

Without identifying David Cole as the “legal affairs correspondent” for the far-left magazine The Nation, Friday’s World News Tonight on ABC featured his denigration of the probe into who leaked the secret eavesdropping story to the New York Times and his expert declaration that “the President of the United States violated a clear criminal prohibition on warrantless wiretapping.” Reporter Pierre…
Brent Baker
 

ABC's Bogus "Pope Joan" Story Also Hocked Debunked "Rule of Thumb" Myt

The bogus story of "Pope Joan" was not the only fiction that ABC and Diane Sawyer tried to hustle on the American public in last night's Primetime (Thursday December 29, 2005). In trying to convey the environment of ninth-century Europe, host Diane Sawyer and a guest, Donna Cross (author of Pope Joan), promulgated the debunked feminist myth that the phrase "rule of thumb" originated from a…
Dave Pierre
 

Cindy Sheehan, Clift’s “Person of the Year” for Giving Bush a

Brent Baker