WE REPORTED THIS STORY LAST SEPTEMBER. IN LIGHT OF RECENT EVENTS IN WISCONSIN AND THE WAY THE MEDIA HAS REPORTED ON IT, IT SEEMED RELEVENT TO RE-VISIT IT. John-david Morgan, a lobbyist and spokesman for the Service Employees International Union
Posted on Breitbart.tv at the time: John-david Morgan, a lobbyist and spokesman for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1, was caught on tape bragging about how his union works with local news outlets to push stories that make
Seems in this weekend’s House deficit-cutting exercise, public media got a haircut – federal subsidies for PBS will end if the House budget holds sway. Not surprisingly, PBS (and all its supporters in the media, blogosphere, twittersphere and on Capitol
Last Sunday, while most of us were feasting on chips, seven-layer dip and the latest Super Bowl commercials, Arianna Huffington was announcing that progressive “news” site Huffington Post was purchased by AOL for $315 million dollars. When announcing the deal
Though Free Press outwardly expressed condemnation at the approval of the Comcast-NBC Merger earlier this month, they really got a lot of what they bargained for. After their extensive lobbying blitz – with approximately 35 different FCC communiqués, including over
So much for objectivity. One of the FCC stipulations of the Comcast – NBCU merger was the incorporation of non-profit journalism centers into NBC newsrooms. They are charged with maintaining and increasing local news coverage, the regulation based on the
On Friday, police arrested a radical forty-something male for attempting to murder dozens of state employees. Hardly a hot-headed gun wielding teenager, this man. Over the last year and a half, Martin Calvin Yarbrough, Jr. allegedly plotted and planned to
Listening to the local news on the radio recently, I heard a report about how newly elected Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz plans to save $8 million by, among other things, merging the “Office of Sustainability” with the Department of
At the end of this video montage featuring network, cable and local news anchors all repeating the exact same talking point, you will discover where they heard it first.
Is it a coincidence when reporters and anchors all use the exact same words when describing the 111th Congress in such flattering and historic language? From network anchors in New York to local news across the country, where do they
Illinois Democratic State Senator Ricky Hendon said that Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady wanted to kill homosexuals and that women should have no rights. Hendon also called Brady idiotic, racist, sexist, and homophobic. But, if you watched the Fox channel
Local news stations in Philadelphia and the Metro New York/New Jersey markets were buzzing with stories about James O’Keefe’s latest video featuring members of the New Jersey Education Association. Each newscast provided ample time for a spokesperson from the teachers’
I’m committing the unforgivable sin with my media friends here. I’m saying government should not be in the media business. I have worked for 30 years in the activist old media and I’ve always found it odd that we had
Making its way across Facebook, this parody featuring local news reporters attempts to lampoon all avenues of social media platforms.
Democratic State Senator Ricky Hendon called GOP Gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady “idiotic, racist, sexist, homophobic” and that he thought “gay and lesbian people need to be locked up and shot in the head”. But you wouldn’t know that by watching
Maurice Hinchey, the progressive Democrat from NY’s 22 Congressional district is acting as if the campaign pressure is getting to him. This Thursday night, he debated opponent George Phillips, before the debate, he had a nasty verbal duel with William
Here is a local news report showing how his opponent, 9-term Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott is concerned about re-election for the first time in his career. Mr. Smith wants to go to Washington. His opponent, Congressman Bobby Scott, has been
South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene (D) made a surprise campaign appearance in the middle of a local news broadcast. In the video clip, the candidate is the man in a green hat with an “A” on it and
The City of Los Angeles is so deep in red ink, they are flagrantly violating state law in an effort to generate revenue, and have been for 12 years. As I reported in an earlier column, officers from the Parking
I’m not sure which number is worse, the fact that a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll reports that MSNBC is not a very popular source for political news, or that same poll reporting that many of MSNBC’s key talking
Last Tuesday August 17, 2010, Rep. Russ Carnahan’s office was reportedly vandalized and “firebombed” at 2 AM in the morning. Hours later police arrested a suspect for the crime and held him for several hours. Of course, when the “firebombing”
Al Sharpton is a professional bigot. During his long career the Reverend has incited two anti-Semitic pogroms: the Crown Heights riot and the firebombing of the Jewish-owned Freddy’a Fashion Mart in Harlem. Each of the Sharpton-incited pogroms resulted in deaths,
Here’s what Fox local news in Chicago reports: Jurors who have been interviewed so far will not identify the juror, other than to say the juror was a female. FOX Chicago News reported that speculation is centering on juror Jo
How quickly it all happened: five years ago, and certainly ten, the idea that the daily newspaper would no longer be part of our morning routine would have seemed unthinkable to the majority of Americans. And yet, in retrospect, it
After more than a decade of sports with no score kept as not to hurt the feelings of the defeated, the banning of Tag and Dodgeball during recess, “Do Something!” state legislatures are now poised to outlaw bullying because young
