Her ObamaCare Mission Achieved, ABC/CBS Veteran Linda Douglass Departs
Linda Douglass, the former ABC News and CBS News Washington correspondent who signed aboard the Obama campaign in May of 2008, is resigning next week from her post as Communications Director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported Thursday afternoon on the paper's “44” blog (which I saw plugged on DCRTV.com). Kurtz described her as “a top pitchwoman…
In Dramatic, Movie Trailer-style Ad, ABC Touts George Stephanopoulos I
An ad airing during Thursday's Good Morning America hyperbolically promoted George Stephanopoulos' interview on Friday with Barack Obama. The commercial hyped the host, who will be in Russia with the President as he signs a treaty with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev. As dramatic music played, an announcer proclaimed, "Now, as they make history and reduce the nuclear threat, only GMA's George…
Network Morning Shows Trumpet 'Historic,' 'Landmark' Nuke Treaty, Only
The network morning shows on Thursday trumpeted Barack Obama's nuclear weapons treaty with Russia as "historic" and "landmark," with only Good Morning America allowing that the reduction plan could be "controversial." However, ABC's George Stephanopoulos also enthused, "But, [Obama and Russia's President] are here first and foremost to make history..."Reporting live from Prague, Stephanopoulos…
Media: Pope Benedict Guilty Until Proven Innocent
The broadcast networks couldn't ignore Holy Week, the pinnacle of the Christian calendar, so instead they used it this year to smear the Catholic Church as a harbor for abusive priests. ABC, CBS and NBC featured 26 stories during Holy Week about Pope Benedict's perceived role in the sex abuse scandal the Catholic Church is now facing. Only one story focused on the measures the church has…
CBS, NBC Skip Conservative Outrage Over Obama Nuke Policy, Today's Mik
Of the three network morning shows, only Good Morning America has highlighted conservative outrage over Barack Obama's decision to limit the situations in which the America can use nuclear weapons. CBS's Early Show has mostly ignored the development. On Wednesday's Today, reporter Mike Viqueira enthused, "...It was Prague about a year ago when the President made a speech outlining his vision for…
Evening News Audience For Week of March 29 Falls Below 20 Million
After a bit of a respite primarily due to NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics, the audience desertion from the Big 3 networks' evening news broadcasts has again resumed. Not that the first quarter of 2010 was all peaches and cream. Last week, Media Bistro noted that ABC's "World News Tonight" had "its lowest-rated first quarter ever." But the results for the first week of the second ratings…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Again Hammers 'Notorious' RNC Strip Club S
Good Morning America on Tuesday continued to tout the Republican National Committee's (RNC) strip club scandal, now upgraded to "notorious" status by co-host George Stephanopoulos. The other network morning shows have largely lost interest in the subject, but GMA, clearly, has not. Stephanopoulos, whose previous profession involved working for the sex scandal-plagued Bill Clinton, hyped, "Now, to…
ABC's Bill Weir and Guest Gush Over 'Beautiful' Obama Graphic, Tout Cl
Good Morning America's Bill Weir and Reuters editor Chrystia Freeland on Saturday gushed over Obama administration talking points on the new unemployment numbers. After Weir talked about a White House-created graphic showing job losses slowing, Freeland unselfconsciously rhapsodized, "Well, I was going to say, what I think that first tells you is that [presidential adviser David] Axelrod is a…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Touts GOP Discord Over Michael Steele, Hig
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Monday played up GOP divisions over Michael Steele and even touted a "poll of insiders" that showed party leaders think the Republican National Committee Chairman (RNC) should resign. Stephanopoulos also prompted Steele to blame recent struggles on race. The former Democratic operative turned journalist related, "The National Journal magazine,…
Special Super-Sized Notable Quotables: Celebrating ObamaCare, Demonizi
This week, the MRC’s regular Notable Quotables newsletter, documenting the latest outrageous quotes from the liberal media from the past two weeks, could not fit in its normal 3-page format, so we created a super-sized special edition, “Celebrating ObamaCare, Demonizing Its Opponents.” It’s chock full of quotes touting the wonders of the liberal health care scheme, and slamming the Tea Party and…
ABC to Re-Run Episode Tonight: GOP Character Under Siege from ‘Conse
Just three weeks after it first aired on March 14, tonight at 10 PM EDT/PDT, 9 PM CDT, ABC will re-run the “Freeluc.com” episode of Brothers and Sisters which centered around “Kitty Walker-McCallister,” a Republican candidate for Senate in California played by Calista Flockhart, coming under attack from conservative rubes who think she used her influence to get the visa renewed for her older…
Former Clinton Aide Stephanopoulos to Former Clinton Official Reich: W
Former Clinton operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos interviewed former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Friday's Good Morning America and wondered what more the government can do to bring down unemployment. After business reporter Suzy Welch highlighted the plight of states with high unemployment having to layoff teachers, Stephanopoulos advocated, "Suzy, that would mean more…
HuffPo Columnist: Media Didn't Do Enough to Shill for Health Care
A lefty columnist for the Huffington Post believes that the media's coverage of the health care debate was sorely lacking. NewsBusters wholeheartedly agrees. Yes, we agree with the Huffington Post.You see, we were under the impression that columnist Allison Kilkenny was less than honest after she used the staged homicide of a census worker to claim that conservatives were fomenting violence. In…
Couric and Sawyer's Ratings Plummet as Williams' Rise
The folks at ABC and CBS News are certainly not humming Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" this morning given the plummeting ratings of their respective evening anchors Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric.Adding insult to injury, Brian Williams' numbers continue to climb.So reported the New York Times Friday in a piece destined to raise some liberal media eyebrows:
