Last week, Brent Baker reported here that Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” joked about Hurricane Katrina being George Bush’s Monica Lewinsky. Today,…
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September 16th, 2005 12:40 AM | Noel Sheppard
September 15th, 2005 12:58 PM | Tim Graham
Romenesko has highlighted for journalists across the country today a Washington City Paper article pounding for more attention to be paid to an article on Socialist Worker online. Contributors…
September 15th, 2005 12:40 AM | Noel Sheppard
In the week leading up to former FEMA director Mike Brown’s exodus, the media spent a lot of time castigating the president for hiring someone…
September 14th, 2005 4:05 PM | Megan McCormack
In a report on the United Nations summit during the 1pm hour of CNN’s Live From, anchor Kyra Phillips confused the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, with another well-known Bolton:
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September 14th, 2005 2:52 AM | Mike Russell
Call me idealistic, but I somehow always expect that correspondents, videographers, and editors -- especially those on network shows -- will learn to hold themselves to higher reporting and…
September 14th, 2005 1:20 AM | Brent Bozell
[Brent Baker posted this item on behalf of MRC President Brent Bozell to provide for a discussion on his blog page about his TV appearance.] On Tuesday's NewsNight, CNN anchor Aaron Brown set up an…
September 13th, 2005 11:46 AM | Greg Sheffield
As predicted, the new blog for CBS News, Public Eye, whose stated purpose was to "bring transparency to the editorial operations of CBS News," has instead turned into a spin machine, a way to counter…
September 12th, 2005 11:04 AM | Greg Sheffield
The Kellino Zone notes:
After 9-11, the media self-imposed a restriction preventing the display of dead bodies, because it might be too offensive and disturbing.
4 years later, CNN wants…
September 11th, 2005 12:03 PM | Noel Sheppard
On September 3, a question was asked here: “How Will Hurricane-Related Halliburton Contract Be Reported?” Yesterday, Reuters answered this with an…
September 10th, 2005 2:20 PM | Noel Sheppard
On CNN’s The Situation Room last evening, Wolf Blitzer adroitly set up Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean with questions surrounding…
September 9th, 2005 5:10 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Reading viewer email at the bottom of 4:00 hour of CNN's "Situation Room," Jack Cafferty dismissed a call from a viewer "try to be 'fair and balanced'" in his commentary segments, deriding the…
September 9th, 2005 12:17 AM | Rick Moore
For two days now Fox News' Major Garrett has reported on first the Red Cross, and then the Salvation Army, being denied entrance to New Orleans by Louisiana State authorities. According to Garrett…
September 8th, 2005 11:34 PM | Noel Sheppard
On this evening’s The Situation Room, CNN’s Jack Cafferty ran a poll asking the following question concerning ongoing rescue efforts in New Orleans: …
September 8th, 2005 6:14 PM | Dan Gainor
Tax cuts have been the latest craze in gas price management, but CNN’s Miles O’Brien suggested on the September 8 “American Morning” that raising taxes might be the way to go. “I think…
September 8th, 2005 2:34 PM | Ken Shepherd
A day after CNN reported poll numbers which show a small minority of Americans blame President Bush for a slow response to the disaster in New Orleans, CBS News today reported their new polling data…
September 8th, 2005 1:17 AM | Noel Sheppard
On last evening’s The Situation Room, CNN’s Ed Henry did a report on the politicization of Hurricane Katrina. One of the first segments was House…
September 7th, 2005 12:51 PM | Brent Bozell
A major news event follows a very routine pattern. First, we get the hard news phase, where reporters relate the unfolding dramatic facts. In the second phase, those same reporters become analysts,…
September 7th, 2005 10:58 AM | Greg Sheffield
According to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, in response to a question of who is to blame for New Orleans' problems after the hurricane:
"13 percent said Bush, 18 percent said federal agencies, 25…
September 6th, 2005 11:57 PM | Noel Sheppard
Our friend at Bare Knuckle Politics has found a fabulous video for us.
…September 5th, 2005 4:23 PM | Noel Sheppard
In a harried, fast-moving interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien this morning, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had many words of praise for President Bush,…
September 5th, 2005 8:39 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Aaron Broussard, a Democrat who is the President of Jefferson Parish, Lousiana, was just interviewed on CNN.
The essence of his rant was that the federal government in general and FEMA in…
September 3rd, 2005 4:14 AM | Brent Baker
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday afternoon repeatedly prodded reluctant Congressional Black Caucus member Elijah Cummings to blame racism for delays in rescuing hurricane victims in New Orleans. Blitzer…
September 2nd, 2005 9:49 PM | Tim Graham
People sometimes call MRC HQ and tell us that a cable network has mysteriously dumped out of live coverage in a way that seems suspiciously political. My first impulse is to think that sometime…
September 2nd, 2005 7:34 PM | Greg Sheffield
Today during CNN's "Situation Room," anchor Jack Cafferty suspected the Bush administration had turned the timing of the help sent to New Orleans into a political stunt.
CAFFERTY: Do you suppose…
September 2nd, 2005 2:05 PM | Dave Pierre
From CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Thursday, September 1, 2005, covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: (audiotape on file, emphasis mine)
BLITZER: "You…