Monday’s Morning Joe featured a discussion with Richard Stengel, the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. What proceeded was a discussion of the administration for securing the Iran Deal, without any effort to release Journalist Jason Rezaian, or the other three hostages of the government in Iran. Stengel would try to defend the lack of action, by highlighting that other governments do the same, but the Morning Joe crew was not having any of it.
Journalistic Issues
By Michael McKinney | October 30, 2015 | 12:01 PM EDT
Friday's Morning Joe featured a discussion by the roundtable on the subject of the debates and the fairness needed for them. While Newsbusters previously discussed Morning Joe's discussion on the bias of moderators, Morning Joe also discussed their surprise and support of Dr. Ben Carson, who has come out leading the change to reform these debates.
By Michael McKinney | October 27, 2015 | 12:39 PM EDT
In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, the cover story by Daniel Engber focused on the recent criminal proceedings involving Anna Stubblefield. Stubblefield has been charged of sexually assaulting a African-American disabled man. Anna Stubblefield, a philosophy professor at Rutgers, was accused of assaulting D.J., a severely disabled man she assisted with “facilitated communication.”
By Michael McKinney | October 26, 2015 | 4:03 PM EDT
On Thursday, October 22, 2015, President Barack Obama signed a veto message of the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA establishes budgets and policies for the Defense Department, and in the last 53 years it has only been vetoed four times. Coverage of the veto signing and its significance has been rather dismal despite Obama summoning the White House press for a public signing. ABC and NBC aired nothing. Here are the brief mentions the other networks offered on the funding for our troops and their salaries, as well as benefits and training. CNN, PBS, and CBS provided brief statements on the NDAA and its planned veto by the President. Meanwhile, Fox News devoted a portion of time greater than the other networks combined.
By Michael McKinney | October 16, 2015 | 2:06 PM EDT
On Friday, Salon featured two articles taking fire to presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Authored by Heather Digby Parton, one piece was titled, “Paranoid Rise of the Militant Right: Inside the Growing Threat of Domestic Extremism” and examined the Department of Justice’s new focus on domestic extremists, and the author zeroed in on right-wing extremism. The second was written by Simon Maloy, who offered the slippery-slope argument against Cruz under the title, "Ted Cruz's Crazy 'Jackboot' Talk: When Inflammatory Rhetoric Starts Getting Dangerous."
By Michael McKinney | October 15, 2015 | 5:31 PM EDT
Thursday, Venkatesh Rao wrote in the Atlantic that "Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for War." Rao examined multiple points in history where businesses and scientific experts worked together to overcome barriers and change society through innovation. However, he then declared Climate Change to be too big for those forces after the recent Volkswagen Scandal of rigging technology to misrepresent the fuel emissions. Seeing this deception as a threat to civilization, Rao suggested totalitarian options to fix the problem, eventually accepting international governance and reliance on bureaucrats to be "professional" in their job to save us from Climate Change.
By Jorge Bonilla | October 14, 2015 | 4:45 PM EDT
En anticipación del primer debate entre los aspirantes a la candidatura presidencial del partido Demócrata, la puntera Hillary Clinton se sentó con la presentadora de Telemundo María Celeste Arrarás para una entrevista severa, punzante... ¡ah! ¿a quien se engaña? Toda la cosa fue prácticamente un aviso comercial de la campaña de Hillary.
By Michael McKinney | October 14, 2015 | 3:56 PM EDT
The "mainstream media" came under attack at Salon.com on Tuesday. Paul Rosenberg raged against the Associated Press for refusing to use the term ‘climate denier’ after activists on the Left demanded that. Rosenberg argued that denier was more appropriate than skeptic or doubter, and gave undeserved legitimacy to the skeptic movement. Rosenberg would continue on to describe how Climate Change, or in this case, Global Warming, would lead to more fatalities than the Holocaust, claiming that Climate Denial is worse than Holocaust Denial.
By Jorge Bonilla | October 14, 2015 | 3:52 PM EDT
En las semanas transcurridas desde su desgraciada confrontación con Donald Trump, el presentador de Univisión/Fusion Jorge Ramos ha hecho todo lo posible para asegurar que su relato de lo ocurrido permanezca fresco en la mente de los medios de prensa dominantes. Pero las declaraciones que hace mientras sigue sacándole el jugo al incidente revelan inconsistencias que no se pueden dejar de examinar.
By Seton Motley | October 13, 2015 | 8:42 AM EDT
We’ve time and again seen the media receive their messaging orders - and then march off all mouthing the Leftist talking point(s) of the day. Washington, D.C.-based talk radio host Chris Plante quotes a military friend of his describing the media not as a gaggle, but as a centipede. Multitudinous legs in coordinated movement - all headed in the same direction.
Talk radio impresario Rush Limbaugh has long made audio cavalcades of this media mal-practice a routine feature of his show. He strings together “media montages” - innumerable examples of “reporters” magically all arriving at the exact same Leftist term(s) to describe the news of the day.
Jorge Ramos Called Trump Expulsion ‘Attack on Freedom of the Press’ But Ignored Actual Attacks On Press
By Jorge Bonilla | October 12, 2015 | 2:24 PM EDT In the weeks since his infamous confrontation with Donald Trump, Univision/Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos has been doing his best to make sure his grievance narrative remains fresh in the minds of the mainstream media. However, the statements he makes while continuing to milk the incident reveal inconsistencies that cannot go unexamined.
By Jorge Bonilla | October 5, 2015 | 9:58 AM EDT
Los noticieros de toda la nación (incluidos Univisión y Telemundo) encabezaron sus programas con la noticia del horrendo tiroteo en el Colegio Comunitario Umpqua, en Roseburg, Oregón. El tono de la cobertura de las cadenas de habla hispana no debería sorprender a nadie.