Evening Newscasts Fret Over Timing of Bush’s Details About LA Terror
February 10th, 2006 12:01 AM
Reporting on President Bush’s Thursday speech in which he detailed a foiled al-Qaeda attack on a Los Angeles office tower, the three broadcast network evening newscasts fretted about the timing in relation to controversy over “domestic eavesdropping.” ABC co-anchor Charles Gibson cued up George Stephanopoulos, “Democrats in Washington immediately began asking: Why is the President talking about…
NBC Uses Attacks on Bush at King Service as Chance to Critique His
February 9th, 2006 12:09 AM
Some speakers at Tuesday's memorial service near Atlanta for Coretta King used the opportunity to blast from the left the racial, budget and foreign policies of President George W. Bush, who was himself amongst the speakers. Yet Wednesday's NBC Nightly News managed to turn the event into an indictment of Bush and imaginary “deep cuts” in social programs, without mentioning the vitriolic hatred…
Media Make Their Priorities Crystal Clear – Bring Back Hurricane Kat
January 25th, 2006 2:28 PM
There’s an old rule in marketing – stick to what sells. Lately, it appears that America’s media are doing exactly that.Since the significant rebound in the president’s poll numbers from their October lows, along with an apparent lack of outrage by the public concerning the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and revelations of domestic eavesdropping by the National Security Agency, the media seem to…
“NBC Nightly News” Ignores Hayden’s Statement About Domestic Spy
January 23rd, 2006 10:50 PM
All three major broadcast networks this evening covered President Bush’s speech in Kansas today concerning the domestic spying program. They all included the same quote of the president saying, “If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?” And, they all referenced statements made today at the National Press Club by Deputy Director of National Intelligence and former National…
CBS and NBC Spike Independent Counsel's Report on Clintonite Obstructi
January 20th, 2006 12:03 AM
In his report released Thursday on Henry Cisneros, Clinton's HUD Secretary for several years who had pled guilty in 1999 to some charges, Independent Counsel David Barrett asserted that his probe was hindered by Clinton administration officials, even after they left office. But the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, which had time for some hardly hot news stories, such as a popular…
Nets Label Assisted-Suicide Opponents But Avoid Tagging Far-Left Group
January 18th, 2006 12:50 AM
The broadcast network evening newscasts on Tuesday night refrained from applying any ideological tag to the far-left group of lawyers, who represent terror suspects at Guantanamo and elsewhere, which filed a lawsuit against the NSA's program to eavesdrop on communications between terrorists abroad and people inside the U.S., but none hesitated to place a conservative label on those opposed to…
NBC, CNN & Wash Post Yet to Correct Kennedy’s Smear of Alito Based o
January 17th, 2006 8:04 AM
FNC’s Brit Hume on Monday night picked up on how, in trying to smear Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a bigot, Senator Ted Kennedy, in a quote showcased by many media outlets, read from what was really a satire. Hume noted how at the hearings last week Kennedy read this from a magazine published by Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP): “People nowadays just don't seem to know their place.…
NBC & ABC Highlight Gore Blast at Bush's Lawbreaking, Olbermann Mulls
January 17th, 2006 12:12 AM
NBC and ABC on Monday night gave time to short items on Al Gore's charge, leveled during a morning speech, that President Bush's “domestic surveillance” means he “has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently." And MSNBC's Countdown led with it as host Keith Olbermann showcased a clip of Gore with his allegation before Olbermann insisted: "Just more old-fashioned partisanship? Not when it…
