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Media Exaggerate Student Loan 'Crisis
Following liberal attorney general's lead, journalists portray lenders as malicious source of students' debt woes.
NBC's Conan O'Brien Works in Random Live Earth Pitch in Russert Chat
MRC intern Joe Steigerwald wrote the following post.You've got to give credit to Al Gore, he certainly knows how to play the mass media like a fiddle, particularly NBC.Eight days ago, NB editor Brent Baker picked up on an NBC Universal press release about how the peacock network and its sister networks will cover the upcoming Live Earth concerts a grand total of 75 hours.That doesn't count the…
Is ABC’s ‘The View’ Anti-Catholic
An interesting discussion ensued on Tuesday’s “Scarborough Country” surrounding ABC’s “The View” and some of the anti-Catholic positions taken by the various co-hosts.MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, sitting in for Joe Scarborough, had Catholic League president Bill Donohue on to discuss his ad placed in Tuesday’s New York Times complaining about the behavior of folks like Rosie O’Donnell and…
CNN: Americans 'work more than medieval peasants
'In the Money' show reporter complains employees don't get enough time off.
Newsweek Laments Anti-Hillary 'Inventions' That It Spread or Confirmed
The cover of this week’s Newsweek touts a story inside on "Hillary’s Likability Gap." That’s not exactly how it’s pitched inside, where the magazine tries another attack on right-wing Clinton haters titled "The New War on Hillary." Reporters Jonathan Darman and Mark Hosenball ponder the "haters’ fury," and remember the bad old days of First Lady Hillary: "Installed in Washington, Hillary morphed…
Masochistic ABC Touts Moore Attack: ‘Media Is Complicit’ in Troop
Does "Good Morning America" have a masochistic streak? On Wednesday, GMA host Chris Cuomo allowed liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to claim that due to the failure of journalists in challenging President Bush’s claims about pre-war Iraq intelligence, ABC and other networks are "complicit" in the deaths of American soldiers: Video (2:22): Real (1.73 MB) or Windows (1.46 MB), plus MP3 audio (686 kB)
Al Roker Demanded Imus Be Fired for Joke; Now Media Ignores Al's Own I
Al Roker was one of the villagers with torches who stormed the castle demanding that Don Imus be fired, but now the foot is in the other mouth. On the June 7 edition of the “Today” show, during a segment discussing London's truly horrible 2012 Olympic logo, which was said to have driven people into epileptic seizures upon viewing, Roker cracked a joke about the disorder. Without turning…
100 Million Victims of Communism Memorial Dedication = Minimal Liberal
The liberal media love to talk about "victims," particularly victims of alleged economic or social oppression, such as illegal immigrants, children without enough Head Start funding, the homeless, the transgendered, detainees at Gitmo, and so on. But when it comes to victims of left-wing ideology--i.e., Communism--the liberal media don't say too much. And this is evident in the minimal (in my…
Florida County Doing Limbaugh Shuffle Was In Middle of 2000's Recount
As the MRC's Matthew Balan reported, Florida’s Broward County is actually considering canceling the broadcast of emergency information -- including that related to hurricanes -- on a prominent radio station in the area because it airs the Rush Limbaugh Show.I kid you not.Potentially even less surprising is that this County Commission, made up exclusively of Democrats, was right in the middle of…
Sen. Graham on 'Today': Working With Dems Even More Important Than Im
Does Lindsey Graham truly believe that his highest calling as a senator is to work with the likes of Ted Kennedy? Apparently so, judging by the South Carolinian's statement on this morning's "Today." Meredith Vieira interviewed Graham, a staunch supporter of the president's immigration plan, during the show's first half-hour.TODAY CO-HOST MEREDITH VIEIRA: When you went home recently you were…