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Larry King: Social Media Wrecking Journalism, Pines for Cronkite Era
Former CNN talk-show host Larry King appeared on the Dan Patrick sports-radio show last Friday. After a lot of talk about baseball and how to do interviews, Patrick closed out the segment by asking about social media’s effect on journalism. King offered the standard liberal answer, stuffed with nostalgia for the halcyon days of ultraliberal monopoly on network news, with ABC, CBS, NBC, and maybe…
October 31st, 2017 2:55 PM
Of Course: Nets Silent as GDP Defies Expectations
The U.S. economy maintained strong growth according to the latest government estimates in the latest example of good economic news. The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on Oct. 27, that the first estimate of third quarter growth was 3 percent. There are two revisions to come before the end of 2017. But it remained positive news, especially since the BEA also confirmed that second quarter…
October 31st, 2017 2:46 PM
Capehart Whines Young Whites Aren’t As 'Woke,' Anti-Trump As He Hoped
A new survey revealing white millennials aren’t as liberal as their “enlightened” minority peers has liberal columnists at The Washington Post spooked and afraid this Halloween. Jonathan Capehart admitted in today’s paper, that the survey’s results were “alarming” and “worrisome” because they revealed white millennials weren’t as virulently anti-Trump or radically liberal in their political…
October 31st, 2017 2:22 PM
Mueller-Focused Evening Shows Still Haven’t Covered Bob Menendez Trial
ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows have not reported on the corruption trial of Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez at all since September 6 when the trial began. The Senator from New Jersey is charged with accepting bribes from a wealthy friend in exchange for political favors.
October 31st, 2017 2:02 PM
CBS Finally Wakes Up to Mueller Investigating Top Dem’s Russia Links
Amidst the coverage of the 2016 campaign and charges in possible coordination with Russia, CBS finally noticed the implication of a powerful Democrat, who just happened to be the brother of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. This Morning on Tuesday managed a scant 39 seconds to this news: “A leading Democratic Party lobbyist is under scrutiny after his firm was linked to Paul Manafort'…
October 31st, 2017 1:49 PM
Neutral! WashPost Owner Bezos Wins 'Equality' Award for Gay Activism
Ethical journalists are to avoid conflicts of interests, yet The Washington Post’s owner was just honored for his extensive gay rights activism. Post owner Jeff Bezos, who also owns Amazon, received the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) National Equality Award on Nov. 28, 2017. In his acceptance speech, he claimed to want Amazon employees “empowered to speak their mind and to be heard.”
October 31st, 2017 11:34 AM
Jorge Ramos Adds Doctor-Assisted Suicide to Advocacy Portfolio
Univision senior news anchor Jorge Ramos has long advocated for liberal policy positions throughout his media footprint, no matter how far outside the mainstream they may be. The latest instance of these policy biases comes via the Fall 2017 issue of Compassion & Choices Magazine.
October 31st, 2017 11:31 AM
MSNBC Promo Laughably Claims: ‘This is Not an Echo Chamber’
The latest MSNBC ad absurdly tells viewers that the left-wing cable channel “is not an echo chamber.” All evidence to the contrary, the narrator of the promo claimed: “This is not a one-way street....This is a dialogue....That looks at the world...and all it’s complexities....from every side.”
October 31st, 2017 11:09 AM
Nets Ignore Removal of Washington Memorial Plaque From Historic Church
What’s more important, preserving our country’s history, or somebody’s feelings? The historic Christ Church, an Episcopalian congregation in Alexandria, Virginia, made the decision to remove plaques memorializing George Washington and Robert E. Lee from their church, even though the plaques had been there since 1870. Fueled by the politically correct trend of wiping our country’s past clean from…
October 31st, 2017 11:03 AM
Samantha Bee Takes on Trump and Climate ‘Denial’ In Halloween Episode
Leave it to Samantha Bee to take climate hyperbole and turn it into a haunted, climate, hell house. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee spent the entire episode on Oct. 25, warning that climate change was “destroying the world,” that President Donald Trump was “attacking us in every way imaginable,” and she attempted to scare the “denial” out of people who disagree. Her method? A climate-themed…
October 31st, 2017 10:24 AM
Shocking Lefty Ad: Virginia GOP Supporters Terrorize Minority Children
If you haven’t been following the race for governor of Virginia between Republican activist Ed Gillespie and his Democrat opponent, Ralph Northam, a hostile television advertisement released on Monday by the liberal Latino Victory Fund demonstrates that the race has tightened dramatically as the Tuesday, November 7, election draws nearer. The minute-long ad -- entitled “American Nightmare” --…
October 31st, 2017 9:27 AM
Boom: Trump Economist Blasts CNN’s Lib Attacks on Tax Plan
On Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS show, the host peddled the long-discredited mythology that the Reagan and Bush 43 supply-side tax cuts caused annual budget deficits to explode. Zakaria interviewed former Treasury Secretary and Obama economic adviser Larry Summers and current Trump administration Council of Economic Advisers head Kevin Hassett, but he did so separately, thus teeing up Summers to go…
October 31st, 2017 9:15 AM
CNN's 'Flip the Script' Attacks on Trump May Reflect Perez's Influence
Saturday evening, Tim Graham at NewsBusters posted on the previously undisclosed "personal closeness to Fusion GPS’ operatives" of CNN's Evan Perez, the network's justice correspondent. The underlying Daily Caller report to which Graham linked would seem to explain why CNN has been particularly hostile towards the Trump administration and even more incomplete than usual in its reporting since…
October 31st, 2017 8:00 AM
Stelter Skips Rather in 22-Minute Interview on History of '60 Minutes'
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter routinely trashes President Trump for sticking to “his safe space” and doing interviews on Fox News. But on his show on Sunday, he provided the safest of spaces to 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager. Both on CNN and in his 22-minute podcast, Stelter discussed the history of the CBS magazine show without once mentioning Dan Rather. In discussing Fager’…
October 30th, 2017 10:55 PM