Geraldo Voices Strong Support For Bush While Slamming Sen. Kerry
June 23rd, 2006 11:23 AM
Bill O’Reilly interviewed the outspoken Geraldo Rivera on “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday evening concerning the current goings on in Iraq, and how the media are covering it. During their discussion, Geraldo stated his surprising support for President Bush, while offering a rather strong critique of Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) as well as for all those who want to establish a time certain for…
CNN's Cafferty: 'The Dumb Ones Watch Fox
June 22nd, 2006 5:45 PM
What do you do when you’re a cable news network struggling to keep up in the ratings? Do you lure viewers away from your competitor with programming that they would want to watch, or alienate those same viewers by insulting their intelligence?The latter seems to be the strategy for CNN’s Jack Cafferty. Shortly before 5pm EDT on the June 22 The Situation Room, Cafferty made this remark to…
New York Post Columnist Asks ‘Do We Need MSNBC
June 14th, 2006 2:35 PM
Don Kaplan of the New York Post has a great column today about the failing cable station MSNBC, and quite appropriately asks why we need it (hat tip to TV Newser):“‘It's really running third in a two-horse race,’ says Reese Schoenfeld, who co-founded CNN. “He questions whether MSNBC is even in the same league as Fox News Channel and CNN. ‘Everybody compares MSNBC to Fox and CNN - when its real…
All Three Cable Networks Featured Nick Berg's Dad, Who Compared Bush t
June 8th, 2006 1:00 PM
In May of 2004, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi participated in the beheading of Nicholas Berg, a businessman working in Iraq. His father, Michael, emerged in the aftermath of that crime as an outspoken liberal activist and is now running for Congress in Delaware on the Green Party ticket. So who better to bring on for a discussion about Zarqawi’s death? Michael Berg appeared on all three cable channels…
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…
Fox’s Rupert Murdoch to Host Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton
May 9th, 2006 10:36 AM
In a stunning example of politics making strange bedfellows, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns Fox News and the New York Post, is rumored to be about to host a fundraising event for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). As reported by the Financial Times: “The decision underlines an incongruous thawing of relations between Mr Murdoch and Mrs Clinton, who in 1998 coined…
Ailes Explains FNC's Success
May 3rd, 2006 2:19 AM
Fox News Channel was bound to succeed and did so even faster than its founding president Roger Ailes imagined.That's
just one of several interesting statements made in a recent interview
by Roger Ailes, president and founder of FNC with WorldScreen.com:WS: When the channel first launched, did you expect it would overtake the competition as quickly as it did?AILES:
I try not to get into any race…
