Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney appeared on CBS, CNN, and FNC on Wednesday morning to address charges she hit a Capitol Police officer in the chest with her cell phone when he tried to stop her as …
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April 6th, 2006 6:18 AM | Tim Graham
April 5th, 2006 10:31 AM | Noel Sheppard
Tuesday’s “The Situation Room” on CNN featured another in a long line of media attacks on Sen. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), this one by Jack Cafferty (hat tip to Crooks and Liars). In his “Cafferty File”…
April 3rd, 2006 2:00 PM | Amy Menefee
It was dj vu on ABC News as World News Tonight
repeated
a February 24 New York Times attempt to discredit philanthropist
Boone…
April 3rd, 2006 6:53 AM | Tim Graham
Howard Kurtz profiled Keith Olbermann for his Monday "Media Notes" column in The Washington Post with the headline "A Gadfly With Buzz: MSNBC's Olbermann Exercising The Right." For his part, Keith…
April 2nd, 2006 5:24 PM | Tim Graham
Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explained that there's a media angle in the war on terrorism: fighting terrorist media channels.
Slowly and with difficulty, are we…
April 2nd, 2006 7:22 AM | Mark Finkelstein
In a week in which immigration has unquestionably been the big story, how did Newsweek choose to frame the issue? The national security implications of a porous border, perhaps? The impact on our…
March 31st, 2006 11:04 AM | Greg Sheffield
In case you're wondering, the postings today are a little light as the MRC staff recover from hangovers from last night's party.
The annual DisHonors Awards were held yesterday, an event "…
March 31st, 2006 8:48 AM | Greg Sheffield
Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley writes:
CNN says it is just thrilled by the transformation of Lou Dobbs—formerly a mild-mannered news anchor noted for his palsy-walsy interviews with corporate…
March 30th, 2006 3:33 PM | Rich Noyes
On Comedy Central's South Park cartoon Wednesday, the world's environment is threatened by the impossible smugness of those driving hybrid cars. (The smug clouds are biggest over San Francisco,…
March 30th, 2006 12:28 PM | Tim Graham
When Hillary Clinton charged that the House Republican immigration bill would "criminalize...Jesus himself," there was national-media notice – if not criticism. Even Hillary’s "hometown" newspaper…
March 30th, 2006 11:43 AM | Matthew Sheffield
The LA Times reports the "folks at third-place MSNBC have something to smile about."
For the first time in almost five years, the third-place cable news channel had a prime-time victory to crow…
March 30th, 2006 12:25 AM | Brent Baker
Kudos to CBS News and Lara Logan for undermining a widely reported incident in which U.S. soldiers supposedly killed innocent Iraqis inside a mosque. On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Logan, who just…
March 29th, 2006 2:30 PM | Tim Graham
On Tuesday, National Public Radio's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" interviewed Fred Barnes of FNC and the Weekly Standard on his new book "Rebel In Chief." Gross began by asking Barnes if after the…
March 29th, 2006 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
Its Time for the end of the world.
Its also ABC, CNN, CBS and Newsweek, all promoting a climate
disaster that would end the world as we…
March 29th, 2006 10:00 AM | Greg Sheffield
The New York Times reports that CNN's Lou Dobbs is gaining viewers with his unceasing crusade against illegal immigration.
The nation's most prominent opponent of current immigration policy began…
March 28th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
CNNs Lou Dobbs is always pontificating about national security,
especially when it comes to international trade but on March 27 he
was frowning on an…
March 28th, 2006 8:03 AM | Mark Finkelstein
In all its cacophony and moments of absurdity, this morning's Today show segment on immigration was a supremely edifying example of the confusion, high emotion and complexity of the immigration…
March 27th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
I hope gas prices go as high as they have to go to get the rest of
these morons off the road in these big Hummers, CNNs Jack Cafferty
exploded on the March…
March 26th, 2006 9:04 PM | Noel Sheppard
Howard Kurtz of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” (hat tip to Crooks and Liars) spent a lot of time Sunday addressing the firestorm started this week by radio host Laura Ingraham over negative media…
March 24th, 2006 6:58 PM | Noel Sheppard
For those of you that missed it, there was a fabulous exchange that occurred during a Pentagon press conference between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CNN’s Jamie McIntyre aired on “The…
March 24th, 2006 4:10 PM | Tim Graham
Washington Post.com conservative blogger Ben Domenech has resigned. Editor Jim Brady sounds more than deferential to the left-wing bloggers that swarm around his site like angry killer bees:
…March 24th, 2006 2:26 PM | Tom Johnson
Earlier this week, Media Bistro's TVNewser blog reported that Lucia Newman, who's reported from Latin America for CNN for twenty years and has run the network's Havana bureau since 1997,…
March 24th, 2006 5:00 AM | Greg Sheffield
Reporters for rival networks of Fox News had unkind things to say about Dick Cheney's preference for Fox when staying at hotels.
MSNBC's "The Abrams Report":
"And he wants brewed decaf…
March 24th, 2006 12:03 AM | Brent Baker
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann charged on Thursday night's Countdown that the e-mail, in which ABC News producer John Green complained that “Bush makes me sick,” was “leaked to the infamous, deplorable Matt…
March 23rd, 2006 5:56 PM | Megan McCormack
Count CNN’s Jack Cafferty among the growing number of reporters who have expressed disdain towards those who criticize the mainstream media. During his 4pm EST "Cafferty File" segment on Thursday'…