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Poverty Rate Falls, But CBS Stresses Rise in Number Without Health Ins
The Census Bureau announced a drop in the poverty rate, but NBC and, especially CBS, on Tuesday night managed to turn the good news into bad by emphasizing an increase in the number of Americans without health insurance while ABC, in contrast, portrayed the decrease in poverty as good news. “A bright spot of economic news today,” fill-in ABC anchor Kate Snow announced, “the percentage of…
CBS: Rising and Falling Home Prices Bad for the Economy
No matter what the housing market does – whether it trends upward or trends downward – either way, it is bad for economy. That’s the CBS take on the economy anyway. “The prices of homes are falling and there is more evidence tonight that those counting on their houses as their nest eggs may be in trouble,” said Russ Mitchell on the August 26 “Evening News.”
Brian Williams Defends Gunpoint Katrina Looting as Work of Desperate
Talk about your bigotry of low expectations . . . Brian Williams has defended armed looting during Katrina as the work of heads of family providing for their own.The NBC Nightly News anchor is in New Orleans on the second Katrina anniversary. He appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" at 7:30 A.M. EDT. Williams first passed along a predictable race-and-classed based explanation of the mismanaged…
Ana Marie Cox on Couric Middle-East Trip: 'Maybe She Needs Rugs
Update 15:34 (see bottom of post): Cox explains her rug joke. I had great expectations when Ana Marie Cox turned up on the "Morning Joe" panel, confident the tart-tongued former Wonkette would produce plenty of grist for our NB mill. But over the course of the week, Cox has been disappointingly subdued, leaving it to the congenial Tamron Hall to produce our headlines. Perhaps Ana Marie's new…
Networks Ignore Sparsely Attended Anti-Gun Rallies
Journalists refuse to embarrass activists attacking your ability to responsibly defend your loved ones.
God's Warriors Interviewee Says CNN Misrepresented Him and His Family
Christiane Amanpour reported her preconceived biases about Christians, rather than the facts.
CBS Uses 'Craig Scandal' to Exhibit How 'GOP Is Already Under a Cloud
In contrast to the morning shows which exploited the arrest of Republican Senator Larry Craig, on charges stemming from alleged lewd conduct in an airport men's room, as a chance to tar the “right wing,” “conservatives” and the “GOP,” with the notable exception of CBS, the broadcast network evening shows -- which all led Tuesday night with Craig -- refrained from using the matter to malign…
MTV.com Rocks... to the Beat of Anti-war Drummers
It's not very surprising coming from the same guys that tried to scare young voters in 2004 with fears of the military draft, but Human Events online producer Ericka Andersen takes a look at the left-wing, anti-war in Iraq slant of MTV.com's political news section: Not that I expected MTV to be fair and balanced but this is ridiculous. I checked out the MTV site after seeing their recent…
Biased in SF: Media Only Report One Side of Terror Case
In San Francisco's liberal Ninth Circuit Court today, a three- judge panel heard arguments in the strange case of Al-Haramain v. Bush. And the members of the media gathered in San Francisco showed their ideological colors afterwards. To those who may not be familiar with the case, this is essentially a test case as to whether the United States government has the legal authority to perform…
WashPost Book Reviewer Decried How Author 'Publicly Caned' Katie Couri
The Washington Post on Tuesday published a book review of Ed Klein’s critical Katie Couric biography by reviewer Louis Bayard, who found the entire exercise of writing a Katie book distasteful, unnecessary, and sexist: “You may also wonder if the same book would have been written about a male broadcaster,” Bayard argued early on. He suggested Klein was a female-bashing brute:
Are Media Reporting Global Warming Too Objectively or Inhibiting Free
In the past couple of days, there have been two articles written about how the media are covering global warming. In one, the author contended that the press are acting to inhibit free speech by exclusively reporting one side of the climate change issue as they castigate skeptics as deniers and operatives of the oil industry. By contrast, another article suggested that the press in their…
Matthews: Craig 'A Sexual Deviant'; Do Dem Prez Candidates Agree
Chris Matthews, opening this afternoon's "Hardball":Idaho Senator Larry Craig, cultural warrior of the right, stands naked tonight, exposed as both a sexual deviant and a world-class hypocrite.View video here.
MSNBC, CNBC Refuse Ads Urging Victory In Iraq
John Hinderaker at Powerline has an item about how CNBC and MSNBC are refusing to sell ad time to a group called Freedom Watch which is supportive of winning the war in Iraq:We wrote here about the television commercials that Freedom's Watch has produced, featuring veterans and their families, that urge Congress and the public to continue supporting the Iraq war. The commercials are well done,…
ABC Weatherman Touts Rambling Tennis Star’s Concern Over ‘Green No
On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," weatherman and liberal global warming activist Sam Champion featured tennis star Billie Jean King in his latest attempt to hype the danger of climate change. In a new segment entitled, "Just One Person," King vaguely described her new environmental charity, GreenSlam, in such a way that it appeared to confuse GMA audience members standing behind her. At…