ClimateGate 'An Inconvenient Scandal' Which 'Threatens to Crumble' Glo
December 10th, 2009 12:41 AM
ABC and CBS discounted the scientific relevance of the admissions and obfuscations displayed in the ClimateGate e-mails, but on Wednesday night they finally devoted full stories to the controversy and quoted the “most-damning” of the e-mails, the ones referring to a “trick” to “hide the decline” in a temperature measurement and in which a scientist fretted “we can't account for the lack of…
Nets Panic: Clock at Zero in 'Life and Death' Effort to Avoid 'Global
December 7th, 2009 11:59 PM
“Facing a clock some say has ticked down to zero, today 192 nations came together to take on a potential global catastrophe,” a dire ABC reporter Bob Woodruff ominously intoned from Copenhagen on Monday’s World News with “Saving the Planet?” on screen. Those attending the conference on climate change “where an official said today the clock has ticked down to zero and it's time to act,” NBC anchor…
ABC and NBC Acknowledge 'ClimateGate,' But Remain Undeterred: 'Science
December 7th, 2009 12:23 AM
More than two weeks after ClimateGate broke, ABC's World News finally got around to mentioning it on Sunday evening, but not to explore how the e-mails discredited leading scientists who insist mankind is causing global warming as, instead, ABC declared “the science is solid” and NBC assured viewers “the evidence is overwhelming that man is behind climate change.”ABC reporter Clayton Sandell…
ClimateGate Held Hostage: Day
December 4th, 2009 10:56 AM
Yet again the Thursday network evening newscasts on NBC, ABC, and CBS failed to cover the ClimateGate scandal. However, ABC World News did manage to devote a two minute story to the release of singer Susan Boyle’s first album.[Editor's Note: Call and write the networks about this. Click here to sign the petition at our MRCAction.org Web site]On Thursday afternoon, ABC White House correspondent…
NBC: Fighting Global Warming ‘Requires Balancing the World’s Needs
November 27th, 2009 11:43 AM
The the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Wednesday informed viewers that President Obama has decided to attend the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen – while ignoring news of Climategate – but the NBC Nightly News uniquely devoted a full story to Obama’s intention to take part in the conference, and the prospects that America will bend to pressure from other countries in…
ClimateGate Ignored, Again -- Broadcast Nets Go with State Dinner Menu
November 25th, 2009 12:46 PM
It probably won't come as any surprise, but coverage of the ClimateGate scandal, which involved the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia in Britain suffering a breach of data, was nowhere to be found. Allegedly a hacker broke into the University's computer system and posted thousands of emails and documents showing an effort by scientists, some on the United Nation's…
CBS Catches Up with Conservatives and Realizes Obama Has 'Credibility
November 24th, 2009 2:29 AM
Long after conservatives and the American people figured it out, CBS on Monday night came to the realization President Barack Obama has a “credibility” problem fueled by the “disconnect” between Obama's promise to reduce the deficit as he pushes for massive new spending. Back in August, the CBS Evening News denigrated the town hall questioners as “unruly protests,” but on Monday reporter Chip…
ABC's Johnson Recites Canard Lack of Health Insurance Kills 45,000 Ann
November 21st, 2009 4:06 PM
In contending America already has health care rationing, ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson, a universal coverage advocate, on Friday night's World News asserted “we have a lot of rationing, based on income, the kind of insurance you have, the way you can navigate the health system” and “a recent Harvard study estimated that 45,000 people died each year in this country because of lack of health insurance. If…
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…
No Party ID on ABC for Imprisoned Jefferson; CBS Skips Sentencing
November 14th, 2009 5:32 PM
Former Congressman William Jefferson, the New Orleans Democrat with bribery cash hidden in his freezer, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison, the longest-ever for a Member of Congress on a corruption charge -- yet the CBS Evening News didn't utter a word about it, just as that newscast ignored his August conviction, while ABC's World News didn't bother to mention his party affiliation. NBC…
CBS: Obama 'So Thoroughly Researching Critical' Afghanistan Decision
November 12th, 2009 9:52 PM
News that President Barack Obama is demanding new Afghanistan options and answers, after months and eight meetings with top officials on General Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops, led ABC anchor Charles Gibson to express exasperation Thursday night: “What new questions are there to be asked after all this time?” CBS and NBC, however, weren't so dubious. Though Katie Couric painted “a…
