CNN's Westhoven "Hoping" for New Political Leaders
May 15th, 2006 10:50 AM
It’s not very often that a reporter for a major cable news network will openly express their desire to see political change, but viewers of CNN’s In The Money on May 13 heard just that. CNN Headline News correspondent Jennifer Westhoven was interviewing the New America Foundation’s Len Nichols, along with Money host Jack Cafferty and CNN business contributor Andy Serwer, on the new Medicare…
Jack Cafferty's Words of "Wisdom": Specter Preventing Bush "Dictatorsh
May 11th, 2006 5:34 PM
During today's 4pm EDT hour of CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty expressed his "outrage" over the revelation that the National Security Agency has been compiling a national database of phone records from AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. Referring to Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter’s demand that the phone companies testify before Congress regarding this issue, Cafferty angrily…
Fear and Loathing of Fox News
May 10th, 2006 1:07 PM
The runaway success of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel, founded on
the premise that other news outlets are biased, is the source
of much anger to lefty journalists. Most elite journalists I've encountered hate the network and the fact that it's broken through the liberal glass ceiling of news.A great example of this was a Monday column
in the LA Times by Scott Collins which instead of leading…
Oprah Winfrey: How Has Anderson Cooper Inspired You
May 10th, 2006 12:30 PM
Has Anderson Cooper been a source of inspiration for you or someone you know? From staging demonstrations to adopting children, Oprah wants to hear about it! According to TVNewser, Oprah appears to be preparing a segment dedicated to the CNN anchor, and is asking viewers to write about how Cooper’s reporting has inspired them to "take action." The Oprah Winfrey Show website lists a few examples…
Liberals Try to Abort Conservative's CNN Show
May 8th, 2006 3:06 PM
CNN Headline News is set to debut a new show tonight (7pm ET) featuring radio host Glenn Beck. Already, liberals are up in arms about their sacred turf of non-FNC television being invaded, Broadcasting and Cable reports.New CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck is already asking his fans to
guess when his show will be canceled, and it doesn't even debut until
Monday night. The subject of an e-mail…
Anderson Cooper’s Ratings Are Lower Than Aaron Brown’s Were
May 5th, 2006 1:10 AM
In reality, the headline says it all, doesn’t it? I mean, there’s not much more to say…but I’ll try. Remember when Aaron Brown was fired from his anchor position at CNN last November? As reported by NewsBusters, CNN/USA’s president Jon Klein announced in a memo: “We have made some programming decisions which will impact our prime time schedule as well as our colleague Aaron Brown. Aaron will be…
CNN’s Blitzer and Schneider Shill For President Hillary Clinton in
April 28th, 2006 10:47 AM
Hold on to your seats, but there’s a new CNN poll out analyzing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chances of being elected president in 2008. What a shock, huh? During Thursday’s “The Situation Room,” host Wolf Blitzer and political analyst William Schneider were having a hard time hiding their glee concerning these poll results as well as a possible return to “the good times under the Bill Clinton era” (…