NBC's Jane Arraf Admits News Coverage of Iraq Misses Good News, Normal
January 19th, 2007 8:25 PM
Back in the United States from Baghdad, NBC News correspondent Jane Arraf, who joined NBC last year after eight years with CNN, conceded that life in Iraq “isn't entirely what it seems” from the constant media focus on bombings. In studio with Brian Williams on Friday's NBC Nightly News, she acknowledged how journalists are “really good at getting across the relentless bombing and the violence,…
Networks Swoon Again for Barack Obama, Tout His 'Big Step' Toward Pres
January 16th, 2007 9:28 PM
Just as when Democratic Senator Barack Obama said he was considering a presidential campaign last October, his announcement Monday -- via a Web video that he has set up an exploratory committee -- unleashed media excitement. The CBS Evening News treated it as one of the two big stories of the day: “I'm Katie Couric. Two major stories tonight: A vicious attack in Baghdad....And Senator Barack…
Flip-Flop: After a Few Liberals Whine, NBC Blames Odd Weather On Globa
January 9th, 2007 2:28 PM
Responding to a handful of liberal complainers, Monday’s NBC Nightly News basically repudiated a Friday evening story in which a NOAA meteorologist blamed the recent warmer-than-normal weather in the Northeast on an El Nino, an area of warmer than normal water in the Pacific Ocean that forms every five years or so. After some mean-spirited comments on NBC’s “Daily Nightly” blog site, where…
NBC’s Engel Declares Saddam Hanging ‘Major Public Relations Blow F
January 1st, 2007 10:17 AM
It should never amaze media watchers when a press member finds fault in justice being doled out to the clearly guilty, even when the party in question is a genocidal despot. With that in mind, it didn’t take long for NBC to question the integrity of Saddam Hussein’s hanging, and espouse to viewers a downside for America as well as the country the tyrant once ruled with an iron fist.Adding insult…
