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Washington Post Declares 'Human-Generated Carbon Dioxide Emissions' Al
Article quotes four experts and a study from one side but offers no counterpoint.
Big 3 Evening News Anchors Wring Hands Over McClellan Charges on 'Toda
All "Big Three" network evening news anchors appeared on Wednesday's "Today" show to promote a simulcast to fight cancer but ended up wringing their hands about Scott McClellan's charges that the press was too soft on the White House in the run up to the Iraq War. "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric accused the White House of "strong arm tactics," and complained, "There was such a significant…
Brian Williams: 'Conservative' Local Newspapers Don't Mention Cancer
In what may rank as one of the oddest non sequiturs of the year, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams appeared on Wednesday's "Good Morning America" to proclaim "some conservative local newspapers" won't report a cause of death when it's cancer. [audio available here]Williams stopped by, along with CBS and ABC anchors Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, as part of a new anti-cancer initiative. …
Across the Board, Networks 'Cherry-Pick' Housing Data
As of late, the networks just can't get enough of bad housing news, seizing each opportunity to make a point how bad the American economy is. Each of the network news broadcasts on May 27 - ABC, CBS and NBC - took the news that home prices fell 14 percent in the first quarter of 2008, despite the news that new home sales rose an unexpected 3.3 percent in April from March, to portray the…
Revolving Door: Seattle News Anchor Joins Liberal Mayor's Staff
It's sort of like Linda Douglass but on the local level, I guess. I'll have to ask our Seattle-area readers to note in the comments section if KING's Robert Mak repeatedly displayed a penchant for gauzy coverage of liberal Mayor Greg Nickels (D). The 10-time local Emmy-winning reporter is leaving TV news for a job that pays $10,000 more a year than his new boss.From the Seattle Times (emphasis…
NYT's SCOTUS Contrast: McCain's Conservative 'Fealty' vs. Obama's Non
New York Times legal reporter Neil Lewis's Wednesday filing was headlined "Stark Contrasts Between McCain and Obama in Judicial Wars." But the truly "stark contrast" was how Lewis treated the respective camps with regard to their hypothetical Supreme Court nominations. Lewis painted an uninvolved McCain as paying "fealty" to "the conservative faithful," while an engaged Obama would be merely…
ABC's Diane Sawyer Implores Carville: Obama Will Win, Right
On Wednesday's "Good Morning America," co-host Diane Sawyer appeared worried about the upcoming presidential election and repeatedly grilled Democratic strategist and Clinton supporter James Carville about whether Barack Obama will be able to overcome a tough primary and defeat John McCain in November. Asking a question she would ultimately repeat four times, Sawyer fretted, "Should he be the…
What Happens When the Ex-Press Secretary Doesn’t Trash His Boss
Before Scott McClellan was President Bush’s Press Secretary, there was Ari Fleischer, and when Fleischer left the White House he wrote his own book, “Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House.” Unlike McClellan, Fleischer did not take pot shots at his former employer, but did include some telling examples of the liberal bias of press.Perhaps not surprisingly, then,…
Networks 'Cherry-Pick' Data to Blame Slowdown on Housing Woes
But on CNBC some experts say housing 'crisis' is overstated and blame the media for hyping it.
LA Times Writer Whacks Robert Novak for ‘Shivving’ Sebelius Over A
Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten, in his latest column titled "The rebirth of abortion," voiced his dismay that social conservatives are reviving the issue of abortion in the 2008 presidential campaign. "If there's one issue that epitomizes the culture wars that have so deeply divided American politics over the last eight years, it's abortion. That's why those who benefited most from…
'World News' Predicts $7-a-Gallon Gasoline
ABC evening show predicts extreme price increase, but curiously explains the actual cause of high gasoline prices and provides some context.
USNewser's Unconventional Take on Economy: Not As Bad As You Think
The media have been quick to paint the slow-growing economy as though it's in recession. Indeed, as our friends at the Business & Media Institute discovered, the MSM now is painting the economy much worse than the print media reported the 1929 stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.But kudos are due U.S. News & World Report's Rick Newman for staking out a…
CBS ‘Early Show’: Scott McClellan’s ‘Bombshell Memoir
On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased an upcoming segment on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book attacking the Bush Administration: "Breaking news this morning -- a bombshell memoir. President Bush's former press secretary accuses him of misleading the nation on Iraq." Co-host Harry Smith then introduced the segment by declaring: "Sharp attacks…