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Los Angeles Times Takes Pity on Porn Stars' Financial Problems
What is up with the media pitying the pornography industry? On July 15, CNBC aired a special highlighting the industry’s financial woes. Then the Los Angeles Times did the same Aug. 10, in the article: “Tough Times in the Porn Industry.” Ben Fritz's article described the same economic problems the industry is facing, a weak economy, online porn and piracy, but failed to include any industry…
August 10th, 2009 4:11 PM
Media Ignore HCAN's 'Playbook For Thwarting Town Hall Protesters
Last Tuesday, a liberal advocacy group sent a "playbook" to its members with detailed instructions to counter "the 'tea-bagger' protesters and right-wing activists" showing up at town hall meetings from coast to coast.According to its website: "Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people…
August 10th, 2009 3:36 PM
CNN's Cohen Defends ObamaCare: Elderly 'Group...Who Needs to Worry the
[Update, 3:30 pm Eastern: See below.] CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen tried to assuage the elderly over their concerns with ObamaCare on Monday’s Newsroom: “If there’s one group of people who needs to worry the least about health care reform, it’s probably the elderly... [they] already have Medicare.” This claim by Cohen ignores planned cuts to Medicare benefits announced by…
August 10th, 2009 3:14 PM
Snyderman, Connolly Declare It Their Duty to 'Raise' Bar on ObamaCare
MSNBC's 'Dr. Nancy' and Washington Post staff writer maintain it is 'incumbent upon' journalists to steer the dialogue of the health care discussion.
August 10th, 2009 3:08 PM
MSNBC Frets About ‘Unhinged’ Conservatives Who Are ‘Scaring’ S
MSNBC’s graphics department on Monday provided some visually obnoxious examples of media bias, fretting about "unhinged" conservatives and "health care hysteria." Throughout the morning, the left-leaning cable network featured on-screen texts promoting the Democratic agenda. At 11:35am, MSNBC News Live host Carlos Watson anchored a piece urging liberals to get tough in supporting universal health…
August 10th, 2009 3:04 PM
FNC Interviews 'Angry Democrat' Who Challenged Hoyer on ObamaCare
On Friday's Glenn Beck Program on FNC, substitute host Eric Bolling interviewed the now-famous "angry Democrat," Don Jeror, who confronted House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at a recent public event as he challenged the Democratic push for universal health insurance. At the event, Jeror famously contended that while President Obama took six months to choose a dog for his family, Congress is "…
August 10th, 2009 2:44 PM
CBS: Sotomayor Known for ‘Dance-offs’ and ‘Can’t-miss Christma
Reporting on Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Saturday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Wyatt Andrews declared: "...she’s not always the reserved, work-aholic judge she portrayed in the Senate hearings....The judge is also known for her can't-miss Christmas parties, which included salsa dancing inside the federal court of appeals in Manhattan." [Audio/video (1:25): Mp3 |…
August 10th, 2009 1:37 PM
Baptist Theologian Hits NY Times Obit for Praise of Embryo-destroying
The late Dr. Yury Verlinsky, a scientist "who developed a technology that allows a search-and-destroy mission on human embryos" was heralded by the New York Times recently as a man who helped childless patients conceive healthy babies.Thus argued Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on his August 7 radio program. The former Townhall.com columnist was reacting…
August 10th, 2009 12:17 PM
Video: Obama Supporters Pass Out Signs and Leaflets at Castor Town Hal
As the Democrat leadership and their media minions try to convince America that town hall protesters are an angry mob organized by conservative organizations, they completely ignore the efforts by Obama supporters at such gatherings.The following video shows how members of Organizing for America -- the new iteration of the presidential candidate's campaign group Obama for America -- passed out…
August 10th, 2009 12:13 PM
Rare Candor for Maddow Show: Democrats 'Outhustled' on ObamaCare Prote
Email message from Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, to Chris Hayes, the magazine's Washington editor, anonymously forwarded to NewsBusters -- From: Hurricane KTo: Hayes, C. Re: Maddow show -- WTF?CC: Rahm Emanual, Robert Gibbs, Keith Olbermann Chris,Things seemed to go well with your last Maddow facetime until you derailed narrative with lapse into independent thought.
August 10th, 2009 12:12 PM
Boston Globe Rankled: 'Rockwellian Ideal...Replaced by Quarrelsome Mas
Catching up with a front page Boston Globe story from late last week, the financially-troubled newspaper owned by the New York Times failed again to limit its liberal laments, and belittling of conservatives, to the editorial page. In “Foes' decibels replace debate on healthcare: Protesters' yells at meetings frustrate Democrats' push,” reporter Lisa Wangsness rued: This summer, the Rockwellian…
August 10th, 2009 11:39 AM
FNC Notes Media Obsessing Over Conservative Protest Origins, But Not L
On Thursday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O'Reilly hosted a discussion with FNC analyst and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg, as the two pointed out the mainstream media's double standard in "obsessing" over how protesters who have been challenging ObamaCare were organized, but have shown no interest in the organization of protesters by left-wing groups. After O'Reilly's "…
August 10th, 2009 11:24 AM
ABC Decries ‘Shouting’ and ‘Screaming’ in One-sided Story on E
ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday presented an extremely one-sided take on the controversial end-of-life provisions in the health care bill, decrying all the "screaming" and "shouting" at town hall meetings. Reporter Kate Snow featured no Republican voices (other than of people yelling) in the segment and instead focused on combating the "incorrect claims" about the legislation. The network…
August 10th, 2009 11:08 AM