CBS Begins New Year Drunk on Hype
January 3rd, 2007 2:39 PM
Unfortunately they don't give you any perspective from the medical community or the makers of distilled spirits or beer. Nope, they just give you two liberal critics of the alcohol industry to scare parents with tales of stomach pumps and binge drinking.Happy New Year.
ABC, CBS and NBC Spike Colorful Revelations About Berger's Pilfering o
December 21st, 2006 10:06 PM
The AP obtained the November 4, 2005 report from the Inspector General of the National Archives and in a dispatch late Wednesday led with how “President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday.” But…
Media Scrooges: 'Bah Humbug' to Wall Street's Christmas Bonuses
December 20th, 2006 2:48 PM
When Santa came to Wall Street this year, the media cried and pouted. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average at an all-time high and commodities markets experiencing one of their best years in decades, Wall Street firms were feeling especially merry this year. The media responded as if they had seen Jacob Marley’s ghost.NBC’s John Seigenthaler gloomily downplayed Wall Streeters’ good fortunes…
Journalists Whine About Not Being Alerted to First Lady's Skin Cancer
December 19th, 2006 8:45 PM
Reminiscent of the high dudgeon Washington press corps reaction after a few hours passed before they were notified of Vice President Cheney's hunting accident, on Tuesday some reporters denounced the White House for failing to publicly announce how last month First Lady Laura Bush had a skin cancer growth removed from one of her legs. On FNC, Brit Hume played a montage from the daily briefing…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: December 9 to
December 15th, 2006 11:03 AM
You might think the media, given the fact that they helped engineer a Democratic victory in the midterms, and that it’s almost Christmas (sorry, Holiday), would ease their assault on President Bush. And you would be wrong. "Hardball" host Chris Matthews recently remarked that President Bush is demonstrating "messianic nuttiness." CNN’s Jack Cafferty finds it "strange" that Democrats aren’t racing…
Evening News 'Free Speech' Used To Scold Americans for Gas Guzzlers
December 11th, 2006 5:00 PM
The "Free Speech" segment for Friday's "Evening News" went to British auto columnist Mike Rutherford who complained that Americans don't know how "lucky" they are for the cheap petrol they put in their tanks.
“Sorry, America, but if you believe you’re paying too much for the fuel you put in your
automobiles, you’re not living in the real world,” griped Rutherford. Noting that American gasoline…
Media Ignore Foley E-mail Leaker and Possible Connection to Rahm Emanu
December 10th, 2006 10:25 AM
The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct released its report concerning the Mark Foley page scandal on Friday, and the media banged the predictable drum about this all being a Republican cover-up. However, what was ignored or downplayed by virtually every press outlet was the revelation that the offensive e-mail messages between Foley and male pages were leaked to the media by the…
Couric to Blair: 'Do You Regret Your Unwavering Support of this Presid
December 7th, 2006 8:02 PM
CBS News and Katie Couric put repenting before the looking to the future and solutions as producers chose this question, from Couric to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to tease at the top of Thursday's CBS Evening News: “Do you regret what many perceive as your unwavering support of this President and this war?" In the subsequent interview, Couric, who the night before called Iraq a “…
