ABCNews.com: New Kwame Kilpatrick Text Messages, Still No Party Label
April 30th, 2008 2:34 PM
Four, count them, four ABCNews.com reporters hacked out a three-page April 30 article for the alphabet network's Web site that dealt with new steamy text messages between Democratic Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his then-chief-of-staff Christine Beatty. Kilpatrick, indicted on twelve criminal counts including perjury and obstruction of justice, could see time in prison thanks to these text…
ABC News Puts Gun Dealer in Cross Hairs
April 25th, 2008 8:35 AM
If you are a major network and want to 'target' gun owners and gun dealers in a story, what would you do? Why you would write a story about a gun dealer offering a steep discount on firearms for college students, and then only interview the dealer and those who oppose his business and his special offer.According to an ABC News story covering Eric Thompson, owner of TGSCOM Inc., Thompson is "…
ABCNews.com Finds New Economic Plight: Textbooks or Birth Control
April 24th, 2008 10:33 PM
It was just a matter of time I suppose. What with Sen. Barack Obama's popularity with college students and the economy being the number one issue for voters, the media finally have an excuse to put a more youthful spin on the classic food vs. prescription drugs meme. A changing media environment, after all, calls for new angles at the same old bias. Someone had to give it the old college try.…
Disney-owned ABCNews.com: All the News Fit to Strip
April 18th, 2008 1:23 PM
Earlier this week we documented how ABCNews.com used a photo illustration in its top headlines lineup that pictured a Bible, a rosary, and a bare-shouldered woman apparently in the throes of passion. Well, in this morning's ABCNews.com lineup of top stories: John and Cindy McCain's tax returns, Hillary Clinton bashing Barack Obama, Pope Benedict at the UN, and how a company plans to make a…
ABC's Raddatz Misunderstands Laws Regarding Soldiers' Political Partic
April 8th, 2008 11:10 AM
ABC White House reporter Martha Raddatz (file photo at right), formerly that network's Pentagon correspondent, is clueless when it comes to federal law regarding U.S. military personnel and what they can and cannot say publicly about their politics, bloggers Richard Gardner and James Joyner argue in an April 8 post at Outside the Beltway. Gardner was prompted to flesh out his strongly-worded…
ABCNews.com Trumpets Dow Rally, Other Network Websites Downplay It
April 1st, 2008 6:25 PM
Wall Street saw a 391-point rally on the Dow today, the first day of the second quarter. ABCNews.com saw the development worthy of a "Breaking News" tag towards the top of its Web page and put the story in the top headlines rotation.But it appears that ABCNews.com was alone among its competitors in trumpeting the news. I checked numerous Web sites shortly after 5:30 and found ABC's to be the only…
AP Ignores Fact Indicted Puerto Rico Gov an Obama Superdelegate
March 27th, 2008 1:14 PM
Color me unsurprised.The Associated Press, reporting the indictment of Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila (pictured at right via AFP/Getty Images file photo) failed to note Vila is a Democrat, let alone that he is an Obama superdelegate.But Vila's party affiliation is hardly a state secret. Indeed, ABC's Jake Tapper noted the Obama connection on his Political Punch blog this morning:
