CNN’s Jack Cafferty Calls Tom DeLay “A Cocky Little Bandy Rooster
April 5th, 2006 10:31 AM
Tuesday’s “The Situation Room” on CNN featured another in a long line of media attacks on Sen. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), this one by Jack Cafferty (hat tip to Crooks and Liars). In his “Cafferty File” segment, Cafferty said DeLay used to “strut around on Capitol Hill like a cocky little bandy rooster.” Yet, now that DeLay has become “just another disgraced public servant who couldn't take the heat,” “…
Smug Hybrid Drivers: NBC and CNN Imitate South Park
March 30th, 2006 3:33 PM
On Comedy Central's South Park cartoon Wednesday, the world's environment is threatened by the impossible smugness of those driving hybrid cars. (The smug clouds are biggest over San Francisco, naturally.) The danger passes only when the people of South Park mash their hybrid cars into little aluminum cubes. And, just for fun, the animators named their hybrid the "Pious," a knock on Toyota's "…
CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Asks “Are Media Turning Against War i
March 26th, 2006 9:04 PM
Howard Kurtz of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” (hat tip to Crooks and Liars) spent a lot of time Sunday addressing the firestorm started this week by radio host Laura Ingraham over negative media reports out of Iraq. One of Kurtz’s guests was Lara Logan of CBS who was clearly not pleased with these assertions. In fact, Logan, reporting from Iraq, appeared rather defensive (video link to follow). Kurtz…
Hello, Newman: CNN's Havana Bureau Chief Jumps to Al-Jazeera Internati
March 24th, 2006 2:26 PM
Earlier this week, Media Bistro's TVNewser blog reported that Lucia Newman, who's reported from Latin America for CNN for twenty years and has run the network's Havana bureau since 1997, will become a Buenos Aires-based correspondent for Al-Jazeera's English-language channel.The MRC has noticed a leftward slant in many of Newman's reports. The March 1990 issue of MediaWatch observed that, two…
CNN's Cafferty: Criticism of Iraq Media Coverage is "Nonsense
March 23rd, 2006 5:56 PM
Count CNN’s Jack Cafferty among the growing number of reporters who have expressed disdain towards those who criticize the mainstream media. During his 4pm EST "Cafferty File" segment on Thursday's The Situation Room, Cafferty was all riled up to take on those who believe the MSM’s coverage of Iraq has failed to report on progress being made there: "This is nonsense. It’s the media’s fault and…
The Taylors Explain Negative Iraq War Media Bias To CNN’s Anderson C
March 23rd, 2006 5:36 PM
Gayle Taylor – the woman at Wednesday’s town hall meeting in West Virginia who asked President Bush how to get more positive news stories out of Iraq – and her husband Kent – a military journalist just back from a year of first-hand coverage of the incursion – were on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees” Wednesday evening. They gave Cooper quite a lesson in how most media coverage of the Iraq war…
Time's Ware Snarls At Hugh Hewitt: Al-Qaeda, Al-Zarqawi 'Winners' in I
March 22nd, 2006 5:00 PM
During the 11pm hour of the March 21 Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper moderated a discussion on the media’s coverage of Iraq. Among those featured in the debate was Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine, Michael Ware, who asserted that the "main winners" in Iraq were al-Qaeda and "superstar of international jihad" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Cooper started off the debate by asking conservative talk show…
