CBS’s 'Early Show' Skips Grilling of Geithner, Lawmakers Calling for

November 20th, 2009 12:24 PM
CBS’s Early Show on Friday completely ignored the grilling Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner received on Capitol Hill on Thursday and the calls for his resignation by members of Congress. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both covered the contentious exchanges. ABC’s Good Morning America provided the most coverage. Correspondent Bianna Golodryga observed that "a handful of Republicans and…

NBC's Vieira and Gregory Write Off Obama Struggles as Merely 'Percepti

November 20th, 2009 11:58 AM
At first glance it appeared that NBC's Meredith Vieira and David Gregory, on Friday's Today show, did a decent job of recounting all of the struggles the Obama administration is dealing with from unemployment to foreign policy, but ultimately the pair concluded, in every instance, they weren't actual problems, but merely problems of "perception." First up Vieira mentioned Treasury Secretary…

Networks Ignore SEIU's Alliances, Thuggery and Presidential Lobbying

November 19th, 2009 11:42 AM
Members of the self-proclaimed fastest-growing union in North America have started fights at town hall meetings, share office space with ACORN and spent over $60 million to elect President Barack Obama. The left-wing, 2.1 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its president, Andy Stern, spent much of 2009 campaigning for health care reform that would include a…

On Today: Newsweek Editor Denies Palin Cover Was Sexist

November 18th, 2009 12:55 PM
NBC's Matt Lauer invited on Newsweek managing editor Dan Klaidman, on Wednesday's Today, to answer Sarah Palin's charge that the magazine's recent cover photo of her, in a jogging outfit, was "sexist," but Klaidman denied the accusation as he claimed: "Well, what it really represented was what the story was about, and that's what our mission is. I mean, look, since she's been on the national…

FNC’s O’Reilly Cites CMI Palin Study

November 18th, 2009 12:28 PM
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly stated last night that "the left is now peddling Sarah Palin as a shallow demagogue who would lead us to tragic circumstances" during a "Talking Points" segment about the former Alaskan governor's continued assault from the left. He cited CMI's 2008 study, "How the TV Networks Have Portrayed Sarah Palin as Dunce or Demon" as evidence. O'Reilly stated: A study last…

Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees

November 18th, 2009 10:27 AM
For several years as uneducated sycophants in the media gushed and fawned over every utterance from former Vice President Al Gore, NewsBusters has informed readers of just how absurd the junk science he's peddling really is.Last Thursday, NBC "Tonight Show" viewers got a perfect example of how the Nobel Laureate basically makes things up, and that his poor grades in college were quite an…

Morning Shows Devote a Combined 21 Seconds to Controversy of Job Creat

November 17th, 2009 4:43 PM
NBC and CBS’s morning shows on Tuesday completely ignored the revelation that the Obama administration’s Recovery.gov website claims to have saved or created jobs in congressional districts that don’t exist. ABC’s Good Morning America devoted 21 seconds to the developing story. On ABCNews.com, Jonathan Karl wrote, "In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with…

Leftist Blood-Curdling Scream Alert: CMPA Reports That Fox IS Fair and

November 17th, 2009 2:46 PM
Leftists including those in the White House who presumptively and obsessively attack Fox News will not be pleased with this. At Forbes (HT Hot Air Headlines), S. Robert Lichter of George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs, asks the question, "Fox News: Fair And Balanced?" -- and answers in the affirmative. In the process, the GMU Professor of Communications also makes a…

Surprise! Lauer Asks If Dobbs Was 'Too Conservative' For CNN

November 17th, 2009 11:42 AM
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, actually asked Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, if he and the network parted ways because he was "too conservative" and if CNN was okay with Dobbs' push for immigration reform when he was attacking George W. Bush but wasn't happy when Dobbs started slamming the Obama administration on the issue, as he queried the former CNN host, "You got much less kickback…

NBC Begins 'Green Week' With Energy Double Standard; Ironically Favors

November 16th, 2009 1:37 PM
On any other day, NBC "Nightly News" would be attacking coal for being a dirty pollutant and advocating reliance on other forms of energy. But on Nov. 15, as it began the first of its "Our Planet" segments for green week, the network used coal power as part of the argument in favor of destroying manmade dams. "This is what the dams harness: the power of the Elwha to generate electricity…

Rift? Hillary Doesn't Express Support For Decision to Try KSM In NYC

November 15th, 2009 11:53 AM

'Saturday Night Live' Mocks VP Joe Biden and Healthcare Reform

November 15th, 2009 9:31 AM
In its opening sketch last night, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mocked Vice President Joe Biden and healthcare reform.With the President out of the country for a week, Biden, played by Jason Sudeikis, has picked the lock on the Oval Office in order to get something big done while Obama is gone.He opted not to solve what's going on in Afghanistan because it's "a mess - it can't be fixed...It's worse…

NBC Kicks Off Annual 'Green Week' with Primetime Climate Hype

November 13th, 2009 8:41 AM
Three years ago, NBC launched a holiday tradition of environmental awareness. In 2007, it kicked off its "Green Week" by turning off the lights during a Sunday sports broadcast (as if turning off studio lights for one minute could mitigate three hours of blazing stadium lights). The rest of the week consisted of cringingly cheesy, greenwashed TV moments, like the cop on the crime drama Life…

Networks Silent on President's Violation of Pledge Not to Raise Taxes

November 12th, 2009 10:12 AM
The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a "firm pledge" not to raise taxes on any family "making less than $250,000 a year." Obama is doing his best to break that promise, but the network news media haven't bothered to report it. On Nov. 6 when he endorsed the tax increase-…