How Will Media Report GOP Beating Democrats in New Gallup Poll
November 11th, 2009 1:59 PM
A rather stunning Gallup poll was released Wednesday showing Republicans moving ahead of Democrats in which Party registered voters support in next year's Congressional elections.As Gallup reported in its summary, this is a rare occurrence in the almost sixty years since the polling organization has been tracking generic voter preferences for the House of Representatives.Given media's downplaying…
CBS Claims Dogs Are Killing The Planet
November 5th, 2009 10:54 AM
You thought your car was bad for the planet?Heck with that! Your dog is WORSE!MUCH worse! So claimed CBSNews.com Monday in a piece hysterically titled, "Just Blame the Dog for Environment's Ills":
CBS Paints Pro-Traditional Marriage Petitioners as 'Anti-Gay Rights
November 3rd, 2009 1:07 PM
"Should Anti-Gay Rights Petition Signers Be Exposed?" asked a teaser headline [screencap shown at right] on CBSNews.com's front page."Hot Topic: Battle Rages in Washington State over Privacy of Petition Signers" the subheader read. While the November 3 article itself by staffer Brian Montopoli was balanced -- giving room for a social conservative activist to defend keeping the names and addresses…
Couric Glorifies Al Gore as 'Godfather of Green, the King of Conservat
November 3rd, 2009 9:06 AM
Earning a chuckle even from Al Gore himself for the over the top glorification, CBS's Katie Couric opened her “@katiecouric” CBSNews.com Web show interview with Al Gore by extolling: “I'm honored to be joined today by the Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation: Former Vice President Al Gore.” The very friendly 30-minute Monday interview was prompted by the release of Gore new book, 'Our…
Covering for Obama Media Play Vietnam Defeat Song in Afghanistan
October 24th, 2009 10:27 AM
Three weeks after their gushing praise of President Obama's meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the media have taken a cue from the lack of action that followed. It was a good run while it lasted. Word from the conflict became more dire almost by the day as Obama's cabinet squabbled. The American media, having sensed Afghanistan could be lost without action, chose to cover for their…
CBS’s Rodriguez Wishes She Could Be Michelle Obama
September 28th, 2009 4:25 PM
Monday’s CBS Early Show touted a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll about American cultural attitudes, with CBSNews.com’s Cali Carlin asking co-host Maggie Rodriguez one of the survey questions: "Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie or Beyonce...Who would you want to swap lives with for a week?" Rodriguez immediately responded: "Hands down, Michelle Obama." Carlin happily declared that…
Couric Bubbly Over Soda Tax, Fails to Consider Idea Obnoxious to Avera
September 22nd, 2009 11:31 AM
"It's the most explosive moment for the soda industry since the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment," CBS's Katie Couric quipped of a proposed federal soda tax in her September 18 Notebook video on CBSNews.com (embedded at right).While careful not to explicitly endorse a proposed one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, Couric hinted that taxing sodas could help curb obesity, because, after all, "…
CBS/AP Story: Docs Concerned Terminally Ill May Prematurely Die Under
September 3rd, 2009 2:58 PM
"U.K. Docs Worry Patients Dying Prematurely," reads a headline featured this afternoon in CBSNews.com's Top News menu. The link brings readers to a CBS/AP story with the same headline. But when one reads through the article, it becomes clear the matter at hand may have some bearing over a controversial issue in America's current health care reform debate (emphasis mine):A group of British doctors…
Sheehan More Consistent Than Media: She Protests Bush and Obama, Media
August 31st, 2009 11:14 AM
On a Sunday evening in August four summers ago the NBC Nightly News devoted its “In Depth” segment to how Cindy Sheehan was “single-handedly bringing the Iraq debate to Mr. Bush’s doorstep” with her protest in Crawford, Texas. But Sunday night this year, after Sheehan departed Martha's Vineyard without earning any network media coverage as President Barack Obama's wrapped up his vacation there,…
CBSNews.com's Birthday Gift to Fidel: A Story Devoid of Castro Critics
August 13th, 2009 5:59 PM
"As Castro Turns 83, Cuba Caught Between Past, Future," announces an August 13 headline for the CBSNews.com World Watch blog. The 10-paragraph entry by Havana-based news producer Portia Siegelbaum amounted to an electronic birthday card for the Communist dictator. No Castro critics, domestic or foreign, were cited in the story, although Siegelbaum made sure to note how a "U.S.-based religious…
Pro-Lifers To CBS On ObamaCare Abortion Coverage: It's In There
August 7th, 2009 10:33 PM
What follows is not meant in any way to make light of a literally life-and-death issue. It is instead meant to perhaps (we can always hope) drill a little truth into the thick heads of the establishment media's alleged "journalists" who continue to refuse to see what's right in front of them in ObamaCare (or in many cases to even read the legislation in the first place).You see, abortion coverage…
CBS Online Editor Refers to Town Hall Protesters as 'Teabaggers
August 7th, 2009 1:19 PM
Why does CBS employ as one of its online editors a blogger who refers to town hall meeting protesters as "teabaggers?"For those that have chosen to block it out, teabagging is a sexual reference unsuitable for further explanation here.Yet, Charles Cooper, an editor for CBSNews.com, wrote the following headline at his Coop's Corner blog Thursday (h/t and image courtesy Doug Ross):
CBS News Chief Legal Analyst: Is Cheney Just A D**k
May 22nd, 2009 6:02 PM
It appears CBS News's Chief Legal Analyst doesn't agree with his colleague Bob Schieffer that former Vice President Dick Cheney is winning the national security debate with Barack Obama.Quite the contrary, Andrew Cohen thinks Cheney is still living in "the world of September 11, 2001, a world where hijacked planes are screaming toward their targets, chaos reigns, and anything goes." As a result…