Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science

BMI Staff
April 22nd, 2010 2:00 PM

HBO Trailers Portray 'Dr. Death' as Noble Civil Rights Figure

Apparently HBO's advertising and marketing divisions don't know if Dr. Jack Kevorkian is a killer or not. Promos for the company's new movie, "You Don't Know Jack" feature actor Al Pacino as Kevorkian, along side the question, "Is this the face of a killer?" To HBO, the answer is no, he's not a killer, if the movie's synopsis and trailer are any indication. "Provocative, obstinate and complex…
Colleen Raezler
April 22nd, 2010 1:41 PM

Video: Happy Earth Day From Some Crazy Hippies

Today is Earth Day so lets celebrate by watching some crazy hippies cry and scream about trees being cut down:
EyeBlast.tv Staff
April 22nd, 2010 1:01 PM

'Mini Page' Propagandizes to Children, Touts Radical Environmentalist

In advance of Earth Day, the Mini Page, a children's supplement that appears in 500 newspapers across the country, touted radical environmentalist Rachel Carson, whose baseless crusade against DDT caused the death of millions. (To read about her deadly legacy, go here.) Under the headline, "Happy Birthday, Earth Day," the April 18 edition provided no information on the negative impact of Carson's…
Scott Whitlock
April 22nd, 2010 12:51 PM

WaPo's Anne Kornblut Touts Napolitano As She 'Reemerges Strong' from C

Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut issued a gushy article on Janet Napolitano on Tuesday, headlined "The crisis management expert: Homeland security secretary reemerges strong after the Christmas Day bombing." Kornblut quotes only Napolitano-praisers in her story, including aides and her colleagues at the White House. Kornblut praises her "encylopedic knowledge of pop culture" and tells of…
Tim Graham
April 22nd, 2010 12:33 PM

BMI Special Report: Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climat

For years the global warming alarmists' mantra has been "the science is settled." But a recent series of shocking disclosures about climate science has shaken the credibility of that claim. The first scandal - ClimateGate - came Nov. 20, 2009, after someone leaked thousands of e-mails from a major climate science group: University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The e-…
Julia A. Seymour
April 22nd, 2010 12:12 PM

CNBC Reporter to Obama: Is Wall Street As 'Harmful' To Us as Big Tobac

CNBC's John Harwood, in an interview aired on Thursday's Today show, pressed Barack Obama about the need to regulate Wall Street as he questioned the President if Americans needed to view them in the same way they view Big Tobacco as "companies whose core activities are harmful to the country?" Obama declined to make the comparison to the tobacco companies, but went on to insist Wall Street…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 22nd, 2010 12:04 PM

NPR's Nina Totenberg Distorts Conservative Legal Scholar to Cast Clare

National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg severely misquoted a conservative legal scholar to make it seems as if he considered Clarence Thomas a radical Supreme Court justice. An examination of his full statement clearly demonstrates that this was not what he actually said.In an April 16 NPR segment, Totenberg, picture right in a file photo, sought to paint radical Berkeley law professor…
Lachlan Markay
April 22nd, 2010 11:41 AM

USA Today Special Calls for More Government Action on the Environment

USA Today featured a special article to help celebrate Earth Day by Mark Thoreau, an indirect descendant of author Henry David Thoreau. In “Thoreau Descendant Reflects on Walden Pond, Earth Day,” Thoreau, however, took the opportunity to call for more government involvement on environmental issues and even praised the Sierra Club, the left-wing environmental group.Thoreau, an Englishman,…
Sarah Knoploh
April 22nd, 2010 11:25 AM

ABC's Sam Donaldson Hypes: Al Gore for the Supreme Court

On Thursday's Good Morning America, ABC journalist Sam Donaldson touted a liberal hero for the Supreme Court, one that even made George Stephanopoulos chuckle: Al Gore. After arguing that Barack Obama should choose a politician, Donaldson enthused, "Let's go further...I give you Al Gore." [Audio available here.]The veteran reporter, who was participating in GMA's Morning Mix panel, argued his…
Scott Whitlock
April 22nd, 2010 11:06 AM

MSNBC's Maddow, Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell Complain Media Giving Tea Pa

So you do your part and pay your taxes to the federal government. However, you feel you pay too much and you don't like how that same government uses that money. Do you have the right to petition and protest that government? If it's on federal land that your tax dollars paid for, then your protest is hypocritical nonsense, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. To her, the tea partiers, who…
Jeff Poor
April 22nd, 2010 10:54 AM

Lawrence O'Donnell Defends GEICO Voice-over Actor Who Called Tea Parti

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday defended a GEICO voice-over actor who referred to Tea Party members as mentally retarded killers.Last week, Lance Baxter aka D.C. Douglas left the following voice-mail at the offices of FreedomWorks (audio available here):Hi there. I`m doing a paper about FreedomWorks and I was wondering if somebody could give me a call back. I`m wrapping up and I just have…
Noel Sheppard
April 22nd, 2010 10:42 AM

MRC's Brent Bozell on 'Fox & Friends' to Discuss Networks' Meager Repo

Brent Bozell joined "Fox & Friends" on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day to discuss a new Business & Media Institute Special Report about the broadcast networks' distorted coverage of ClimateGate and other climate scandals. Bozell highlighted the way the networks have barely reported ClimateGate and the other climate science scandals that have eroded the credibility of the global…
Julia A. Seymour
April 22nd, 2010 10:37 AM

MSNBC's Maddow, Penn. Gov. Rendell Complain Media Giving Tea Party Too

Liberal host and Dem. politician argue the 'mainstream media' have made tea party movement more of a force than warranted.
Jeff Poor
April 22nd, 2010 10:04 AM