Wall Street Journal: Forget product placement, NBC Universal is trying “behavior placement” with some of its shows. Characters from programs such as “30 Rock” and “The Office” are acting out eco-friendly behaviors that advertisers hope will sway viewers. WSJ’s Amy
While the media did their best to expose the rampant stupidity and racism lurking in the ranks of the tea party protestors at tax day rallies last week, a couple of obstacles usually referred to as facts stood in their
[youtube 6Eib2di9bq4 nolink] A Navy Chief once told me that close only counts in three things: horseshoes, hand grenades and area-effect weapons. Now, when it comes down to how the mainstream media tried to portray members of the Tea Party
The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes joins us to discuss his latest report — “TV’s Tea Party Travesty: How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Tea Party Movement.”
Think there’s been a media campaign to disparage and marginalize the grassroots Tea Party movement, almost from its inception, especially by the major networks? Think the coverage has been blatantly slanted and made to fit the liberal narrative? Well, maybe
So Ted Koppel was on the BBC to discuss a survey that finds roughly 60 percent of news executives thinks journalism is headed in the wrong direction. Here’s a surprise. He, and his hair, agree. Listen up, up-listeners. So there
MSNBC: U.S. military officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be “illegal.” Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes
So says Paul Bedard writing in U.S. News and World Report: Big media, especially the TV networks, seem to be going out of their way to diss the conservative-leaning Tea Party movement as they work overtime to cheer on the
Tina Fey returned to SNL last night to reprise her Sarah Palin character. Watch it here: Fey and SNL’s caricature of the former VP candidate did some serious damage to Palin’s reputation and thus the McCain campaign in 2008, but
For three years now the autism community has declared April Autism Awareness Month and Friday, April 2nd was World Autism Day. I turned on the TV to see how the mainstream media would advance the autism conversation. To my disappointment
Success in Hollywood is, for the most part, random. Now, there are certain projects that even a Bedouin nomad knows will be a monster hit. Lord of The Rings is one. It also happened to be executed with near perfection.
The other day on his local radio program, RedState.com blogger and CNN Contributor Erick Erickson delivered a 13 minute segment on the census and the lengthier, American Community Survey (ACS). It was a solid bit of talk-radio monologue, including extensive
John Malone and Greg Maffei must put the brakes on selling Overture Studios. They don’t need to sell it. They need to restructure it. It’s too valuable an asset to let go, especially when combined with Liberty Media’s other properties.
[Note: This is Part II in an ongoing series about the Clinton Redux, the Obama Administration and their political wars against Americans. Click here for Part I] With the passage of Obamacare, Democrats, assisted by the media, have been claiming
I wonder if MSNBC can get its money back on that special “Watergate Jr.” graphic and the ominous theme music they used when throwing their resources (and reputations) at James O’Keefe? The charges against O’Keefe and three other men have
NBC New York: Law enforcement officials say a package with white powder was sent to Congressman Weiner’s Queens office today. A preliminary review shows the letter in part complained about the historic health care legislation passed by Congress this week,
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message, I’ll get back to you. Here’s the message: You can’t remake “The Rockford Files.” You can call a television show “The Rockford Files.” Hell, you can call your
How do critics stay employed? Next to Weathermen and Wall Street Analysts, only critics are more incompetent forecasters. In fact, it would seem that critics are so bad at analysis, that if the critics loathe a movie, play, or television
In June 2007 Castro’s Stalinist regime held a “tourism fair” in Havana to kick-off an ambitious plan to boost the Cuban military’s tourist booty. By some peculiar coincidence NBC’s Today Show decided to broadcast from Havana that very week. Amidst
From a speech by Jimmy Carter at the University of Havana on May 14, 2002 which was broadcast throughout Castro’s islandwide fiefdom and trumpeted worldwide by all “news” agencies with Havana bureaus: My nation is hardly perfect in human rights.
