Green Presidential Nominee Gets Little Publicity Even After Vandalism

September 7th, 2016 7:19 PM
During this year's presidential campaign, most of the airtime has been focused on Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, but Green Party representative Jill Stein has found an unusual way to get some publicity: vandalizing construction equipment for an energy pipeline. According to an article posted by CBS and the Associated Press on Wednesday, Morton County in…

Leftist Professor: Trump TV Network Scarier Than Trump Presidency

September 5th, 2016 3:57 PM
Penn State professor and Bernie Sanders enthusiast Sophia McClennen has a message for her fellow progressives: “If the thought of a [Donald] Trump presidency worries you, the thought of a Trump news network should scare the hell out of you.” McClennen’s Monday piece for Salon addressed reports that if Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, he, Steve Bannon, and Roger Ailes may start a competitor to Fox…

Liberal Pundit: Right-Wing Media Corrupted the GOP, Then Took It Over

August 31st, 2016 11:05 PM
During the early years of the Iraq war, the so-called Pottery Barn rule -- “you break it, you buy it” -- became a common expression inside the Beltway. Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall suggested on Monday that something like the Pottery Barn rule describes what’s happened to the Republican party: conservative media wrecked it and now, along with Donald Trump, control what’s left of it. “The…

Writer: Media Normalize ‘Vicious’ Trump; Have ‘Grudge’ Against Hillary

August 27th, 2016 3:08 PM
Plenty of journalists saw Hillary Clinton’s Thursday speech on Donald Trump and white nationalists as an attempt to further separate the GOP nominee from Republicans who aren’t #NeverTrump but are leery of voting for him. Kevin Drum of Mother Jones “propose[d] a different explanation”: that Hillary “was giving the press permission to talk about Donald Trump's racism." But Esquire’s Charles Pierce…

Breitbart Falsely Claims Meeting on Facebook Will All Be 'Anti-Trump'

May 16th, 2016 9:31 PM
In an article posted on the Breitbart.com website Monday morning, reporter Adelle Nazarian charged that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg's Wednesday meeting with “leading conservatives” to address their concerns regarding the site's treatment of conservative outlets would only be attended by people who are “part of the anti-Trump and 'Never Trump' movement.” However, Alex Griswold of the Mediaite.…
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Networks Finally Cover Michelle Fields Incident with Trump Staffer

March 10th, 2016 8:28 PM
Two days after Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski allegedly forcefully grabbed the arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC finally noticed this disturbing incident just as a Trump protester was sucker punched at a rally on Wednesday night. All told, the three network evening newscasts combined for two minutes and 18 seconds reporting on how…

MSNBC's Joy Reid: Right-Wing Media Are 'Stoking Racial Resentment'

August 20th, 2015 4:22 PM
MSNBC attempted to discredit conservative media on Thursday when Richard Lui brought on Joy Reid, a national correspondent for the network, to eviscerate right-wing news outlets for allegedly exposing Black Lives Matter organizer Shaun King as white. The Daily Caller, Breitbart News,The Blaze, blogger Vickie Pate, and CNN’s Don Lemon have all contributed evidence which strongly suggests the…

Gallup Poll: Confidence in Police Rates Twice That of Mainstream Media

June 17th, 2015 8:04 PM
A new Gallup survey has revealed that Americans have approximately twice as much confidence in law enforcement personnel -- 52 percent -- as they do in newspapers -- 24 percent -- and television news -- 21 percent. The telephone poll was conducted June 2-7 and included Gallup's newest survey on confidence in U.S. institutions, which it has updated every year since 1993.
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Poll Shows 46 Percent Want Stephanopoulos Out of Campaign Coverage

May 19th, 2015 5:50 PM
If it weren't for bad luck, senior ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos would have no luck at all. According to a poll released Tuesday by Rasmussen Reports, a plurality of 46 percent of likely voters think that the co-host of the weekday Good Morning America program and This Week, a Sunday news and interview show, should be banned from any coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Former ABC Colleagues: Stephanopoulos 'Foolish,' 'Isn't a Journalist'

May 18th, 2015 6:20 PM
The fallout from the revelation that ABC's George Stephanopoulos -- the co-anchor of Good Morning America and host of the Sunday morning This Week program -- donated $75,000 to the foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family intensified on May 17, when two of his former co-workers hammered him while they were guests on CNN's Reliable Sources show. The strongest criticism came from Carol…

Clash at Papal Summit Over Climate Change Shows Debate Turning 'Nasty'

April 28th, 2015 5:57 PM
During a press conference in Vatican City on Tuesday, people described as “papal heavies” interrupted “an awkward question” being asked by Marc Morano -- publisher of the skeptical Climate Depot website -- who wanted to know what Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, thinks about climate change deniers. According to an article written by James Dellingpole for the Breitbart.com…

Barnicle: GOP 'So Angry' Due to Relying on Party's 'Mentally Ill Wing'

April 6th, 2015 5:53 PM
Mike Barnicle, a frequent liberal guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe weekday program, hammered Republicans on Sunday in a posting at the Daily Beast website entitled “Why Is the GOP So Angry at Everything These Days?” His answer: Republicans “are furious at the world. Their solution: Declare war on it.” Barnicle's article started out innocently enough, with the writer noting that during the past week…
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Before Congress Speech, Netanyahu More Favorable Than Obama in U.S.

March 2nd, 2015 7:17 PM
Ever since House Speaker John Boehner in mid-January invited Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's current prime minister, to speak before both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, March 3, the White House and most members of the press have slammed the fact that the Ohio Republican didn't consult the president before extending the offer, which many Democrats and White House officials have interpreted as an…

CNN's Full-page NYT Ad: 'New Day' Ratings Top MSNBC's 'Morning Joe'

January 29th, 2015 8:05 PM
The perpetual battle for last place in the cable “news” channels took an interesting turn on Thursday, when the Cable News Network took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times claiming that while MSNBC's Morning Joe program was “leaning forward” -- a reference to that channel's motto -- CNN's New Day show was “moving ahead!” “SORRY, JOE,” the title glared before the text below…