Inside Politics by the numbers for July

In my last post, I relayed how Inside Politics (IP) had not picked up on a new poll showing decreasing support for Osama bin Laden in the Arab world and a concurrent increase of belief in democratic reform. Well, IP again ignored that story today, fixating again on a Karl Rove angle to the Valerie Plame leak investigation. Senior political analyst Bill Schneider, however, did have time to rattle…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS dares to criticize business ethics of other companies

Network assaulted industry but didnt give them any chance to respond.
Megan Alvarez
 

"Bullshit

Clay Waters of MRC's TimesWatch caught a CNN employee calling Rove's version of the Valerie Plame story "bullshit" as Dobbs introduced a report from Dana Bash. The last reporter seen sitting next to Dobbs at the anchor desk was Kitty Pilgrim, and the unidentified voice is similar to Pilgrim's. The following occurred on Friday night's Lou Dobbs Tonight: Lou Dobbs: "Tonight, a surprising new…
Brian Boyd
 

Media Complain About Dissenting Editor

Rich Noyes
 

Networks will report just about anything you say if your name is Kenne

Environmentalists claim mercury link with autism is absolutely overwhelming
Megan Alvarez
 

Food Police Crack Down on Soda

Media treat left-wing pro-tax group as unbiased consumer advocate.
Megan Alvarez
 

Crazy 8s: Executive Summary

Live 8, G-8 coverage cheerleads sending billions of U.S. dollars to Africa
Dan Gainor
 

Crazy 8s

Live 8, G-8 coverage cheerleads sending billions of U.S. dollars to Africa
Dan Gainor
 

So liberal Democrats don't have mind-numbing talking points

Ken Shepherd
 

Memo to Media: Gas Prices Still Far from All-time High

NYT is one of few to admit record isnt really a record.
Megan Alvarez
 

New York Times: Standing on Principle or spoiling for a high profile f

While Eleanor Clift is heralding Judith Miller as a principled journalist taking a fall to cover for an possibly criminal secret source in her recent column in Newsweek, Howard Kurtz in today’s Washington Post reports that many legal experts believe that Miller’s jail time is the product of her and the New York Times’s stubborness, not a stand on journalistic principle but rather, in the words of…
Ken Shepherd
 

Softballs for Katrina, Baseball bats for Joe

Ken Shepherd
 

Rove dominated Inside Politics coverage

A quick by the numbers look at Rove coverage on Inside Politics today: Out of 14 segments on IP, nine were devoted to the Karl Rove/CIA leak story:
Ken Shepherd
 

No pressing Leahy on his liberal litmus test

Yesterday on CNN's Inside Politics, host du jour Candy Crowley essentially got Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to confess his litmus test on abortion for Supreme Court nominees, but didn't press him on the matter, despite her colleague Bill Schneider last week asserting that only conservatives, not liberals, have a litmus test stance on abortion.
Ken Shepherd