CNN's Sanchez Again Bashes Fox News, 'Pudgy-Faced' Glenn Beck

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez again attacked Fox News on Monday’s Newsroom, implying the channel wasn’t a “real news organization,” and bizarrely labeled Glenn Beck “pudgy-faced.” Unsurprisingly, Sanchez continued his silence concerning his own network’s left-wing bias [audio clips from the segment are available here].The anchor began the segment by summarizing his attack on the Fox News Channel from…
Matthew Balan
September 21st, 2009 7:00 PM

Congressman Calls ObamaCare 'Abortion Industry Bailout'; Rips Media fo

The United States has been called a bailout nation, following the passage of TARP in 2008 and the government takeover of the auto industry earlier this year. However, that may ring true in other, more controversial areas, as well. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J, took President Barack Obama and proponents of his style of health care reform, along with the news media that cover the issue, to task, in a…
Jeff Poor
September 21st, 2009 6:39 PM

The Newseum: Museum Downplays Bias; Derides ‘Advocacy Journalism

The Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot shrine to media self-obsession, downplays the subject of liberal bias. I had a chance to visit the Washington D.C. journalism museum on Saturday and was struck by the lack of serious analysis of this important aspect of the news business. The $450 million building contains many short films on reporting, but there is only one specifically on media bias. The…
Scott Whitlock
September 21st, 2009 4:37 PM

ACORN 'Independent Advisory Council' Member Andy Stern Lets Loose on A

Last Wednesday, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, in the wake of James O'Keefe's and Hannah Giles's embarrassing video barrage, went into damage control mode: As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees, I am, in consultation with ACORN’s Executive Committee, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN’s service programs until completion of an independent review. I…
Tom Blumer
September 21st, 2009 4:29 PM

CBS: Ben Stein Slams CNN’s Carville for Calling 9/12 Protestors ‘C

Appearing on CBS’s Sunday Morning, commentator Ben Stein ripped into CNN political analyst James Carville for claiming anti-Obama protestors were "classless": "the elitist anger of the liberal Democrats is boiling over as some ordinary citizens show they don’t like being pushed around....Contempt for the ordinary citizen is just not American and it does not win elections."Earlier in his…
Kyle Drennen
September 21st, 2009 4:08 PM

Tanenhaus Sees Conservative 'Rigor Mortis' Despite Protests, Floats Co

Left-wing PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers, host of "Bill Moyers Journal," interviewed New York Times editor Sam Tanenhaus about his new book "The Death of Conservatism," which Times Watch found intellectually dishonest, unnecessarily hostile, and already dated. Tanenhaus, who edits two Sunday sections, the Book Review and the Week in Review, insulted today's conservative movement the same…
Clay Waters
September 21st, 2009 3:58 PM

Washington Times Turns to RightRoots for NEA Investigation

The mainstream media has left Americans with little reason to believe they will serve as watchdogs against foul play on the left. After major media outlets were scooped by two twenty-somethings with a hidden camera, and failed to vet former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, leaving it to bloggers at Gateway Pundit to expose his trutherism, it comes as little surprise that the Washington Times is now…
Lachlan Markay
September 21st, 2009 3:31 PM

Desperate for Guests? 'World News' Goes to Rolling Stone's Taibbi for

ABC's "World News" is supposed to be above the fray, right? According to "World News" executive Jon Banner, his program didn't jump into covering the recent ACORN scandal because it is "not in the business of noise." And yet on Sept. 20, ABC compromised the quiet dignity of "World News" by discussing health care reform with Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi, a man that claims Goldman…
Jeff Poor
September 21st, 2009 3:02 PM

SF Chronicle Blogger Waxes Religious Over Environmentalism

Earlier today I blogged about how a Baltimore Sun environment blog is urging readers to confess their most mortal "eco sin." Not to be outdone in the pious-sounding eco-rhetoric, the San Francisco Chronicle's Thin Green Line blog today warns tech geeks and video game aficionados against the original sin of technological advance:Technology, at times, offers a magic key into the environmental…
Ken Shepherd
September 21st, 2009 3:00 PM

'Nightly News' Focuses on Greenland Melt, Ignores Antarctic Ice Expans

It's no secret General Electric (NYSE:GE) has a lot to gain from the regulation of greenhouse gases, so is it a coincidence NBC, a GE product, offered more anecdotal evidence that global warming is putting the planet in danger? "NBC Nightly News" provided yet another report on Sept. 20 agonizing about anthropogenic climate change melting ice in Greenland. "There are new concerns tonight about…
Jeff Poor
September 21st, 2009 2:27 PM

CBS’s Greenfield: Is Right-Wing ‘Militancy’ A Dilemma for GOP

Reporting for CBS’s Sunday Morning, political analyst Jeff Greenfield wondered about the impact of nationwide ant-Obama protests: "Does this new militancy on the Right pose an opportunity for the Republican Party or create a dilemma?" He fretted over the tone: "Some of it is aimed specifically and virulently at Obama....At his background, at his race, at his agenda." Greenfield began the segment…
Kyle Drennen
September 21st, 2009 1:38 PM

Open Thread

NB Staff
September 21st, 2009 1:25 PM

U.S. News’ Erbe Equates Conservative Christians with Radical Terrori

Bonnie Erbe, contributing editor to U.S. News and World report and host of PBS' "To the Contrary" recently compared conservative Christians to terrorists. A soon-to-be published study in the journal Reproductive Health that found states with a high level of residents who subscribe to conservative religious beliefs also have high teen birth rates sparked Erbe's September 18 observation that…
Colleen Raezler
September 21st, 2009 1:19 PM

MSNBC Hosts and Guests Lobby: 'Time to Move On' From ACORN; Dismiss Sc

On Monday’s Morning Meeting, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan and his journalist guests expressed frustration that the ACORN scandal hasn’t gone away. Politico correspondent Mike Allen lobbied, “...It's time to move on." Ratigan highlighted other groups and offered moral equivalence: “And are all of these organizers ultimately guilty of some sort of shady activity or another?” Following a reading of the…
Scott Whitlock
September 21st, 2009 1:15 PM