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NPR’s Totenberg Urges Imposition of a “Katrina Tax,” Says “I W
On the Inside Washington TV talk show aired on three Washington, DC stations over the weekend, NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, decked out in NewsBusters orange, suggested that President Bush’s Thursday night speech “would have been a great opportunity to say, 'look, I'm for tax cuts, but we need a Katrina tax, we need to really pay, to do this and to pay for it.’" Host Gordon Peterson repeated her…
The Poll the Media Refuse to Share With Us
As has been well reported by NewsBusters squad members here and here, the media in the past few weeks have been falling all over themselves to report President Bush’s apparently plummeting poll numbers. However, few media outlets pay attention to the poll conducted on a daily basis by Rasmussen Reports. Could it be that Rasmussen’s numbers don’t mirror the negativity of many of the other…
Clinton, Blair, NY Congressman Criticize Katrina Coverage
Peter King (R-NY) the new chairman of the House of Representatives' homeland security committee blasted the media's coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. King made his remarks on the radio program of Linda Chavez while being interviewed by substitute host Steve Malzberg. NewsMax.com picked up his remarks:"The FEMA of ten years ago certainly did not do any better job under much less…
Turner: Tanks Don’t Stop Terrorism, “You Stop It with Giving Peopl
CNN founder Ted Turner rued on Friday’s Late Show with David Letterman that “we paid $400 billion to find a nut in a fox hole” and declared that the Iraqi people “were better off without us.” He also charged that “we violated international law by going to war without a clear mandate from the security council.” Though the 9/11 terrorists were hardly poor, Turner contended: “You don't stop…
AP Has NO Problem Finding People Who Didn't Like President's Speech
As reported here yesterday by the Media Research Center’s Brent Baker, Dean Reynolds of ABC News had a hard time Thursday evening finding people who didn’t like President Bush’s address to the nation concerning Hurricane Katrina. Oddly, the Associated Press’s Angie Wagner didn’t have such difficulties. Of course, the AP went to seven different states to ensure they got the answers they were were…
New Film Stars Clooney as TV's Fred Friendly
The L.A. Times has a story up about a new "documentary-style film" about liberal CBS newsman Fred Friendly which features George Clooney in the leading role:The black-and-white documentary-style film, which Clooney co-wrote, produced, directed and in which he plays "See It Now" producer Fred
Friendly, won best screenplay for Clooney and Grant Heslov and best actor honors for David Strathairn…