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ABC's Charles Gibson Provides Balanced Debate Agenda
ABC News and Charles Gibson are no CNN and Anderson Cooper when it comes to skewing the agenda of presidential debates. In the back-to-back Republican followed by Democratic debates from New Hampshire aired between 7 and 11 PM EST Saturday night on ABC, moderator Gibson challenged the presumptions of both sets of candidates with a key talking point being pushed by the other party: He hit…
Thomas Accuses Bloggers of 'Deterioration' of Journalism in Iraq War
Technological advances in media business, especially blogging, upset 'dean of the White House press corps.'
Old Media Continues to Hide Major Reason for Ford's Free-Fall
The returns are in for car company sales, both for December and all of 2007 (first figure is December, second is for full year; sources are here, here, and here): - GM: -4.4%, -6.0% - Toyota: -1.7%, +3.1% - Ford: -9%, -11.8% - Chrysler: +2%, -3.1% - Nissan: -2.4%, +4.8% - Honda: flat, +2.8% Toyota is listed second for a reason that would have been almost unthinkable three years ago (bolds are…
ABC Claims McCain 'Surging' -- But Zogby Shows Him Losing Ground to Ro
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd disclosed that the media was poised to take a third-place McCain finish there and use it to catapult him to victory in New Hampshire. McCain actually finished fourth in Iowa, but on Good Morning America today we saw a perfect example of the phenomenon Todd predicted. ABC declared that McCain is "surging," "rising in the…
HufPo Blogger: 'Haliburton' or 'Blackwater' Will Assassinate Obama
Want some old fashioned black helicopter, conspiracy goofiness? Check out the frenzied work of HufPoster Joseph Palmero who imagines that if Obama becomes president members of Blackwater security services or Haliburton would somehow decide to assassinate him. After reading his wild-eyed musings, one wonders if the foam from his mouth short circuited his keyboard as he wrote?
In an effort to…
Only Couric Notes Hsu Sentencing, 'Looming Recession' Leads CBS
Of the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Friday, only the CBS Evening News squeezed in a mention of how a California judge sentenced Norman Hsu -- the fugitive donor to many Democrats including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- to three years in prison on a 16-year-old fraud conviction. Unlike ABC and NBC, CBS's Katie Couric didn't lead with the Iowa caucus results, but with “more…