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Halperin: Media Bias This Campaign Doing Democracy a Disservice
Time magazine's Mark Halperin on Sunday made one of the strongest insider indictments to date about how the Obama-loving media have behaved during this presidential campaign.Talking with CNN/Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz about the "clear, unambiguous double standard" concerning how differently Barack Obama's fundraising and flipflop over taking public campaign funds would be covered…
Just Facts: Exposing the Media’s Election-Year Economic Games
Writing at JustFacts.com, James Agresti has a fascinating article documenting how the media spin the economy during Democratic and Republican administrations and during election years. “With another presidential election upon us and a Republican in the White House, negatively skewed economic reporting is climaxing,” Agresti writes. After detailing how the media castigated George W. Bush for…
Weekend Captionfest II
Sarah Palin [left] and Tina Fey cross paths on the set of Saturday Night Live, October 18, 2008.
Tuned In To See Sarah, And Nasty Clarence Thomas Joke Broke Out
I thought Sarah Palin did more than fine on Saturday Night Live [Noel's got the video here]. In particular, during her Weekend Update appearance Palin displayed a speaking poise and polish exceeding that of the other candidates on both tickets. But Republicans who agree to appear on such shows put themselves in the lap of the liberal media gods. And those lesser deities abused their power last…
Ex-NBC News Chief Advocates Gumbel for 'Meet the Press
Bryant Gumbel, back to network television news? Catching up this Sunday morning with an item from my pending file originally bumped by Barack Obama's Joe Biden announcement, back in August former NBC News President Michael Gartner, who in 1991 made Tim Russert the moderator of Meet the Press, recommended that NBC now resurrect veteran left-winger Gumbel, whom he hailed as “smart” and “quick,” and…
Pew: Limbaugh and Hannity Fans Politically Smarter Than Colbert's, CNN
The Pew Research Center conducted a survey to see what the audiences of the various political shows knew about politics, and what they found goes against the conventional wisdom about whose audience is better informed about current events. With a simple three-question survey about politicians in high office, it turned out that the audiences of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity answered more…
Sarah Palin's Guest Appearance on Saturday Night Live
Video of Palin's second appearance -- on the "Weekend Update" segment -- follows below the fold:
Vogue: Biden Vice President
Has the election already taken place? No? Then somebody should tell Vogue. They’ve already declared Joe Biden as vice president. A headline on the cover and for the corresponding feature story reads, “All the Vice President’s Women," referring to what the style magazine calls “four generations of Biden beauties.” I agree the Biden women are beauties; I disagree Joe Biden is vice president (…