Shoe Tossing Media Darling Also Improves Bleak Shoe Economy
December 22nd, 2008 12:16 PM
CNN, which long ago abandoned the concept of credible journalism, ran a story today regarding the attack by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi on our nation's President as a feel good story about the shoe industry.The title itself reveals that CNN reporters simply can't contain their giddiness when it comes to covering someone attacking the President:Bush assailant kick-starts sales for…
Will Media Report Baghdad's First Public Christmas Celebration
December 22nd, 2008 11:43 AM
An astonishing thing happened in Baghdad on Saturday: Christians, apparently for the first time in the city's history, publicly celebrated Christmas.CNN's Jill Dougherty published an article about this extraordinary event at the network's website Sunday which included a video of her interviewing Iraqis of varied religious beliefs at the scene.However, from what I can tell, this extremely charming…
Whoopi Still Clueless About the Constitution
December 21st, 2008 9:41 PM
“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg is apparently still unaware that the Constitution explicitly forbids slavery. Appearing on the December 21 edition of “Reliable Sources” (video here), host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Whoopi Goldberg questioning John McCain, that is he were to appoint strict constructionist judges, if she should fear a return to slavery. Unfazed, Whoopi replied “I thought…
CNN Lines Up Pro-Abortion Group, AMA Against Pro-Life Doctor's Conscie
December 19th, 2008 5:33 PM
Updated at bottom of post (Jan. 7, 2009)CNN sided against the expansion of health care workers’ right to not participate in controversial medical procedures like abortion and in-vitro fertilization during a report on Friday’s Newsroom program by including only one pro-life voice amongst several statements and clips from pro-abortion groups. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for…
How Will Media Report Tenth Anniversary of Clinton Impeachment
December 19th, 2008 10:53 AM
Ten years ago, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President William Jefferson Clinton.Ten years later, how will the very media that helped sway public opinion in order to prevent a guilty verdict in the Senate report this anniversary?As a preview of what we should expect, here's how CNN's Frank Sesno recounted the tawdry details during Thursday's "American Morning" (video embedded…
Is CNN Pushing Kids to Ask For a Salary for First Lady Michelle
December 19th, 2008 4:00 AM
**VIDEO below fold**
CNN has a segment that they call "CNN Student News" that is supposed to highlight the news of the day for the kiddie set. Pursuant to that, in a December 15 segment, CNN floats a question asking if Michelle Obama (or any First Lady) should get a government salary just for being First Lady?
But, what we really ended up with is a slight to those same students to whom CNN was…
Brown Scolds Obama: You Can't Choose Questions You'll Answer
December 19th, 2008 1:20 AM
For the second time since Election Day, CNN's Campbell Brown admonished president-elect Barack Obama for his poor press conference etiquette.During the "Cutting Through the Bull" segment of Wednesday's "No Bias, No Bull," Brown expressed anger with Obama's treatment of a Chicago Tribune reporter the previous day saying it's "all the more surprising that you could act testy, annoyed, or…
Trump On Madoff Mess: Millionaires of the World, Unite
December 18th, 2008 4:59 PM
Poor schlumps out there know how to get along with next to nothing. But these were multi-millionaires that Bernard Madoff wiped out: show some sympathy! That was The Donald's daffy drift in speaking to Wolf Blitzer on this afternoon's Situation Room on CNN.View video here.DONALD TRUMP: They put 100% of their money with this character, this sleazebag. 100% and they're wiped out. And you know,…
Cafferty E-mail: Bush is a Stupid Buffoon, Cheney an Evil Sociopath
December 18th, 2008 10:27 AM
Aside from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, there is possibly no greater and more outspoken media critic of the Bush administration than CNN's Jack Cafferty who on Wednesday read some of the most disrespectful and disgraceful viewer e-mail messages about our nation's President and Vice President you could possibly imagine an American television network airing.In fact, the terrorist supporting al Jazeera…
Air America Host, Time's Mark Halperin Okay With Obama's Delay
December 16th, 2008 4:53 PM
On CNN anchor Campbell Brown’s “No Bias, No Bull” program on Monday evening, New York Daily News columnist Errol Louis and Time magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin agreed that there was no problem with the transition team of President-Elect Barack Obama delaying the release of their internal findings into their contacts with the office of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Louis saw “nothing…
CNN Envirohype Special Gets Panned by Viewers
December 16th, 2008 9:03 AM
If you are even an occasional viewer of CNN, chances are you have not been able to escape a commercial for the channel's "Planet in Peril" two-hour homage to environmental alarmism.Despite the huge hype, however, CNN's regular audience seems to have tuned out the special. It was a ratings dud: It's not just the "Planet in Peril." The ratings for CNN's two-hour environmental special last week were…
CNN Cries for Japanese Recession 'Orphans
December 15th, 2008 5:36 PM
Orphan. The very word conjures images of dirty and destitute children living on the streets Oliver Twist-style, or in the abusive hands of Miss Hannigan in "Annie."It certainly doesn't bring to mind a cute, clean toddler whose mother stays at home with her while her father works.Yet that is exactly what CNN "Newsroom" meant on Dec. 15 as "Recession ‘Orphans'" was plastered to the screen.
CNN Used Hannity to Highlight How Blagojevich Scandal is a 'Distractio
December 15th, 2008 1:27 PM
During a report on Monday morning’s Newsroom program, CNN correspondent Jim Acosta used a clip of Sean Hannity from Fox News Channel, along with clips from two of their resident Obama defenders, to outline how Blagojevich corruption scandal was a “distraction” for President-Elect Barack Obama. The graphic on-screen throughout the report even stated how the scandal was “Distracting Obama.”Acosta…