Media Research Center: ABC, CBS and NBC were uninterested in Obama’s Rev. Wright connection, but have gotten religion and are using it to target conservative candidates. With the 2012 elections less than a year away, the liberal media are attacking
– The other day the New Wonkette was salivating over hidden meanings in Gingrich’s office gewgaws; now the NYT is poring over Gingrich’s 1971 dissertation. Yes, really. Mr. Gingrich would be our first president with a Ph.D. since Woodrow Wilson.
– Lee Enterprises goes belly up. – Fox says it was left off of Facebook’s Most Shared Stories for 2011. In May, FoxNews.com wrote about a quirky page on the Centers for Disease Control’s website that advises viewers how to
[youtube jJ39EAQHiCQ nolink] The last thing I heard about Herman Cain was that he’s considering getting out of the race. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire — and there’s generally two media people rubbing sticks together to create the smoke.” Some
Meghan McCain is turning into the female Al Sharpton. MSNBC must feel proud, the same pride a father feels when he first realizes that his son sucks at sports. Keep in mind, this is the same interview in which McCain
Tingles asks. The man who helped tank the housing market is critiquing the morality of another. To Frank’s credit, he defines evil to Chris Matthews by saying that Hitler and the like were evil. What exactly defines Gingrich as “evil?”
Oh my. “I famously said a statement earlier where I said Michele Bachmann was the poor man’s Sarah Palin. I am completely wrong. This is the thinking man’s Sarah Palin.” Yes, Meghan McCain “said a statement” earlier which was given
– Another media group calls on US mayors to end journalist arrests. Sure, just so long as we can tell them apart from the actual protesters. – Adam Carolla delivers and epic rant on OWS. – Twitter may classify for
– Apparently, calling your viewers “bastards” may affect your ratings. – The DNC attacks Jake Tapper for not being a lapdog. – Mitt Romney complains to Bret Baier that Baier’s questions were “overlyaggressive.” If Romney thinks Baier is “too aggressive,”
I can’t shake the feeling that while she’s talking about Obama, she’s thinking of hastily Photoshopping Lady Di heads onto model bodies for more creepy Newsweek covers. Tina Brown was asked her opinion on the President’s tenure on “Morning Joe.”
Whoa. “I reject the premise of that …” I love how Jay Carney spends five minutes attempting to package up a rambly pseudo-answer into sound bite form for Jake Tapper. Tapper is one of few journalists in the White House
– Logo test: Which newspaper brands do consumers trust most? Yikes. Not USA Today! Despite having the second-highest circulation of any U.S. newspaper, the USA Today was the least trusted brand among both consumers and local service professionals, actually –
Obama & Co. waited until the Thanksgiving weekend to unload their White House visitor logs. Bloggers are still crowd sourcing their contents, but Michelle Malkin uncovered this gem in the meantime: Rachel Maddow visits the White House with seven friends.
– Jonah Goldberg: “Making the Klan Boring.” Kevin Boyle, who teaches history at Ohio State University reviewed a couple books on the Klan in the New York Times yesterday. The KKK of the 1920s is a fascinating story. But it
L.A. Times: Why did you want to go from the top of the men’s magazine world to Fox News? I loved Fox News. I’d been on a couple of times, and I found it refreshing. Before Fox News, what was
The Daily Caller pulled a Politico last night and published opposition material from a disgruntled candidate as a legitimate story, replete with “anonymous sources.” The story was to be a hit on Missouri 2nd congressional candidate Ann Wagner and the
How weird is it to note such a thing? Weird but also necessary. Chris Matthews even acknowledges the left-leaning aesthetic of the media, so to get a fair report on a tea party protest is worth nothing. Watch and see
– The New Hampshire Union Leader endorses Gingrich. – Sponsorships verses failing banner ads: an interesting discussion on the future of digital news advertising: I simply cannot believe that there isn’t a way to tell people about new products and
“The national media, which lens a little to the left I could argue …” That explains these polls: Pew: Public opinion of media never worse The Hill Poll: Most voters see media as biased and unethical Poll: By 2-to-1, Nets
Remember the Russian broadcaster we told you of who flipped the bird when she mentioned Obama’s name in a live television broadcast? [youtube E6qq1a8yx20 nolink] She’s been pulled off the air. REN TV, a privately owned channel controlled by associates
If Katie Couric is preparing to square off against Diane Sawyer over Sawyer’s anchor spot my money is on Sawyer. Ambitious news presenter Katie Couric is said to be eyeing up Diane Sawyer’s hot seat on ABC World News. The
Politico has published a Thanksgiving list for both Democrats and Republicans, naming five things for which each party should be thankful. Andrew Breitbart and Big Government make the Republican list for Weinergate. However, it turns out that two of the
From Fishbowl DC: From JournoList to activist, it appears that WaPo‘s liberal blogger Ezra Kleinis once again blurring the lines between being a journalist and trying to sway politics. In what appears to be at a minimum a breach of
CJR: Eleven seconds. That’s how long the exchange lasted between Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and Miami Herald political reporter Marc Caputo during a campaign swing through South Florida last week. During a multi-city visit that took Cain to a
Fareed Zakaria showcased what some are calling a questionable report from the EU on terror attacks. From Breitbart.tv: The European Union released a report documenting what groups in Europe were responsible for terror attacks on the continent. He points out
– NYT under fire from its readers for the casual use of both “rape” and “sex” in their Penn State stories: Times Ombudsman Arthur Brisbane said the word “rape” is in flux, and that the Times’ Stylebook says it should
I emailed my Ukrainian friend (I don’t have any Russian ones) to see if there is some sort of Russian gesture that looks exactly like flipping someone the one gun salute. There isn’t apparently; they give the finger in a
– Blowing apart the meme that free speech is being suppressed due to journalist arrests: Put together by Josh Stearns, this document has been a great resource to track journalists working on Occupy Wall Street stories around the country who’ve
Monday night’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, the number one show in cable news, features an unusual collaboration between FOX and CBS as Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes joins Throw Them All Out author and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer to
– Wonder if this occupier will get the Scott Olsen treatment from the media. – Regis Philbin says goodbye. – Fox hires two Democrat contributors, Ed Rollins. – Hillary Clinton surprised by daughter’s new high profile job with NBC. –
There’s so much going on these days. The Occupy movement, a man arrested for attempting to assassinate our president, the never-ending drama behind the GOP primary, and–as always–we have to fight the corrupt mainstream media. There are so many dragons
– AP scolds reporters for Tweeting about OWS arrests. – Did the Newspaper Guild just endorse #OWS? Sure sounds like it. Guild launches online forum for journalists covering protests 09 Nov 2011 Covering the Occupation Movement can be hazardous. A
At least one hit job fell flat this week. From the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs: LIEBERMAN, COLLINS TO HOLD HEARING ON INSIDER TRADING LAWS AND CONGRESS 60 Minutes Story Sparks Examination WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and
MSNBC’s newest show host Alex Wagner is eager to make her mark on the world of punditry. Twice this week Wagner has made mention of how much she detests the Second Amendment. The other evening while on a political panel
How long has Baghdad Bob been writing at Politico? [youtube CXl1GkWWGmA nolink]
– Google chief: Internet keeps government honest. Broader adoption of the Internet will keep governments on their toes as wired-up citizens exercise their newfound power to check rights abuses, Google chief Eric Schmidt said on Saturday. “In nations and communities
Sunday night, CBS aired an edition of “60 Minutes” that took a rare look at corruption in Washington on both sides of the aisle. It even took a book by a conservative journalist and Big Peace editor, Peter Schweizer’s Throw
—– NBC and MSNBC (and MSNBC’s new live-in lovers Politico) might be ignoring the story along with much of mainstream media, but CNBC is not only doing a good job of covering what our colleague Peter Schweizer uncovered in his
Faced with a groundbreaking investigation by investigative journalist and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer that reveals corrupt self-dealing on both sides of the aisle in Congress, the mainstream media had two options: Criticize both sides in proportion to their involvement. Defend
– Heavy fallout from the “60 Minute” piece based on the book by Big Peace editor Peter Schweizer. – Watch the original report here. – Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch appears on ABC’s “This Week.” – John Dickerson is named as