Inhofe Smacks Down Media's Enviro Hysterics
October 12th, 2006 12:51 PM
Oklahoma Republican senator James Inhofe is continuing his campaign to educate Americans about the media's tendency to listen and repeat alarmist rhetoric about the environment. His latest Senate speech focused on the New York Times and its prepostrous flipping back and forth between believing in massive global cooling/warming:My recent speeches detailing the embarrassing 100 year history of the…
NYT: Andrew Cuomo Invested Campaign Money in Supporter's Risky Hedge F
October 8th, 2006 7:09 AM
The TV networks have enough trouble noticing a single governor's race across the country. But for some reason, the attorney general's race in New York drew attention when Republican candidate Jeanine Pirro drew a federal investigation for wanting to have her cheating husband wire-tapped. (NBC's Today has aired five segments or mentions of Pirro in the last ten days.) Will NBC and others in…
Bozell Column: TV Critics Cheer Serial Killer-Slash-Hero
October 8th, 2006 6:35 AM
In his column on the decline and fall of morality on television this week, Brent Bozell applies scrutiny to the TV critics, a group of people often pushing and shoving the networks to shatter every moral barrier, break through every standard of taste. Showtime has a new series titled "Dexter," featuring actor Michael C. Hall in the title role, slobbered over by the critics for his role as the…
Media Tidbits: Rather Delayed, N.Y. Times Plugs McGreevey, Nasty Foley
October 7th, 2006 10:07 PM
TVNewser notes "Dan Rather Reports will still be coming soon to Mark Cuban's HDNet. Just not as soon," Ed Bark reports. The program was to launch in October. But in an e-mail, Cuban now says: "We are moving Dan back to after the elections so there won't be as much going on." Perhaps it's because the last weeks of an election season, he looks a little like Captain Ahab, "reckless, arrogant, and…
