Katie Couric Denounces Hillary-Cleavage News as 'Disgraceful', a 'New
August 2nd, 2007 9:22 AM
In one of her one-minute "Katie Couric’s Notebook" speeches on her Katie & Co. blog, CBS anchor Katie Couric came lecturing to Hillary Clinton’s defense on August 1 over Robin Givhan’s Washington Post fashion review of her cleavage on C-SPAN2, but she never mentioned the Post, just how the story "dominated cable news for days, and it’s disgraceful." She sounded the feminist alarm: "By…
CBS Hails 'Landmark' and 'Historic' Efforts to Expand Federal Control
August 1st, 2007 8:54 PM
Wednesday's CBS Evening News trumpeted two liberal efforts to expand government power, leading by heralding “landmark legislation” to have the FDA regulate cigarettes followed by a story slanted in favor of, as reporter Thalia Assuras described it, an “historic expansion of health care coverage for children” of the “working poor.” Assuras, however, ignored such inconvenient facts as how a family…
Networks Fret Over Agenda Murdoch Will 'Impose' on Wall Street Journal
July 31st, 2007 10:17 PM
Though many journalists impose their views regularly in biased political coverage, and last year the New York Times publisher made clear his left-wing world view, on Tuesday night the broadcast networks framed Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the Wall Street Journal around what agenda the “controversial” Murdoch will “impose.” That matches the “fear” expressed in online journalism forums and media…
GDP Growth Downplayed, Real Income Growth Ignored by the Nets' Evening
July 30th, 2007 11:19 AM
Expanding on Media Research Center's July 30 CyberAlert and a similar post at NewsBusters (bold is mine): Nets Barely Notice Surge in GDP as They Focus on Dow Plunge The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts on Friday all devoted full stories to the fall in the stock market, touted as "the worst two-day point drop for the Dow in five years," but barely had time for a sentence about the 3.4 percent…
Nets Barely Notice Surge in GDP Growth as They Focus on Dow Plunge
July 27th, 2007 9:50 PM
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts on Friday all devoted full stories to the fall in the stock market, touted as “the worst two-day point drop for the Dow in five years,” but barely had time for a sentence about the 3.4 percent second quarter jump in the GDP, the biggest in over a year. In fact, neither ABC nor NBC cited the specific 3.4 percent rise in the Gross Domestic Product, the measure…
Housing Prices Up from Year Ago, Yet CBS Highlights Comparison to Grea
July 25th, 2007 9:49 PM
On a day when the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported a rise in the price of homes so the average median price is above where it was a year ago, Wednesday's CBS Evening News featured a soundbite claiming “home price depreciation” unprecedented since the Great Depression. Apparently, reality wasn't negative enough for CBS, so they felt a need to add some embellishment. “The housing…
2007 Hurricane Forecast Reduced, Will Media Care
July 25th, 2007 10:59 AM
In May, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted an above average hurricane season, the media reported the announcement with a vigor. Two months later, with no serious hurricanes yet hitting the mainland, a private forecaster has reduced its tropical storm expectations. Less hurricanes should be good news, especially for folks along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, right…
