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CBS Face-Plante: Reporter Claims White Men Helped Obama Win, When They
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, Bill Plante pointed out that "a new poll shows President Obama's support slipping in one key demographic that helped him win in 2008: white men." However, Pew Research Center's presidential exit poll from that year found that Obama actually lost 57 to 41 percent to Republican candidate John McCain.
Plante noted "concern in Mr. Obama's own party that his…
June 14th, 2012 3:43 PM
NYT Puts Catholic Church on Defensive Again: 'Lightning Rod for Critic
New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein, in Atlanta to cover the annual meeting of Roman Catholic bishops, "Bishops Defend Fight Against Obama's Policy on Birth Control Coverage," portrayed the church as on the defensive over its fight for religious freedom, as did the story's text box ("Acknowledging criticism, even from some Catholics"). It was embellished with a photo not of the…
June 14th, 2012 1:37 PM
Soledad O'Brien Welcomes Dem Mayor But Belittles Romney Advisor
While CNN's Soledad O'Brien tossed softballs at Democratic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, she was not so kind to her Republican guest during the next hour, on Thursday's Starting Point. O'Brien reported poor poll numbers for both the Romney and Obama campaigns, but went after only the Romney campaign's economic message in detail.
O'Brien teed up the Democratic mayor to respond to…
June 14th, 2012 12:38 PM
Time's Illegal Immigration Cover Story: 'We Are Americans - Just Not L
Time magazine waded into the illegal immigration debate Thursday with a preview of next Monday's cover and featured article guaranteed to generate heated discussion on both sides of the aisle.
In front of a picture of unknown immigrants save the story's controversial author Jose Antonio Vargas was the bold headline "We Are Americans*"; somewhat below it read "*Just not legally."
June 14th, 2012 11:38 AM
ABC Shills for Poor Eric Holder: 'Demonized' and 'Victimized' By the G
According to ABC News' Matt Negrin, Republicans are "victimizing" and "demonizing" Attorney General Eric Holder. The ABC network has almost completely ignored the growing Fast and Furious scandal, but an online article written by Mr. Negrin put the blame on the GOP. (Negrin mocks the concept of media bias on his Facebook page. See screen cap below.)
In fact, it seems Negrin's ABCNews.com…
June 14th, 2012 11:17 AM
Media Coverage of ‘Fast and Furious’ Scandal Rare and Spurious
Nobody's talking about Holder's gun walking.
June 14th, 2012 11:11 AM
NBC Gives More Time to 'Obama Boy' Than to Fast & Furious Scandal
NBC provided its first coverage of the Fast & Furious gun running scandal on Tuesday, providing a scant 30 seconds on Nightly News. In contrast, Thursday's NBC Today devoted a 37-second report to a video of "Obama Boy," a gay activist singing over his support for the President in 2012. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Today news anchor Natalie Morales proclaimed: "…
June 14th, 2012 11:08 AM
‘Game of Thrones’ Severed Bush Head a Giggle for Media
We hardly needed more proof of the cesspool that is original programming on the pay cable networks. But just in case: “Game of Thrones” producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have willingly admitted to using a gruesome image of former president George W. Bush’s head impaled on a stake during the HBO drama’s season one finale, “Fire and Blood.”
Bush’s decapitated likeness appeared as one…
June 14th, 2012 11:01 AM
Michelle Malkin Takes Juan Williams to Woodshed for Saying 'I'm a Real
A fight broke out between New Media and Old Media on Fox News's Hannity program Wednesday that has the entire blogosphere abuzz.
When Fox News's Juan Williams, in the midst of a discussion about the national security leaks controversy, arrogantly told syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, "I'm a real reporter, I am not a blogger," all hell broke loose (video follows with transcript and…
June 14th, 2012 10:40 AM
Open Thread: Greeks in Private Sector vs. Public Sector
With its early retirement age and perpetually striking unions, the idea that the average Greek is lazy has a lot of truth to it. But things are not quite as simple as that. In fact, Greeks are a lot more hardworking than you would think. The stereotype is partially true, however:
June 14th, 2012 10:38 AM
Networks Barely Discuss ‘Hidden’ Jobless, That Even WaPo, CNN Noti
ABC, CBS and NBC ignore lower labor force in 82 percent of stories.
June 14th, 2012 10:25 AM
AP Says Higher State Tax Collections 'Could' Reduce Public-Sector Layo
Maybe the answer to eliminating much of the annoying bias in establishment press business reporting is to have the reporters involved eliminate the could-might-maybe statements which almost inevitably follow the initial relay of the primary news.
Take the first paragraph of Christopher Rugaber's report Tuesday on recent increases in state tax collections (bolds are mine throughout this post):
June 14th, 2012 9:14 AM
Donny Deutsch: My Support Of Obama Is 'Wavering
Might the man who once said of himself "there's been nobody who's a bigger Obama supporter" vote for Mitt Romney? Maybe. On today's Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch—ad exec, man-about-the-Hamptons and quintessential wealthy NYC liberal—declared that his support for President Obama is "wavering."
Deutsch said that it was the bad jobs numbers of a couple weeks ago that "changed everything for me…
June 14th, 2012 8:14 AM
'Fracking' Attack: NYTimes Won't Give Up Fighting Natural Gas Extracti
Even after being embarrassed by a series of misleading reports from reporter Ian Urbina in June 2011, the New York Times continues to lash out against hydro-fracking, the process of pumping chemicals and water into shale to extract gas.
Metro reporter Mireya Navarro pumped up on Tuesday a controversy manufactured by environmental opponents of fracking in upstate New York: "Institute’s Gas…
June 14th, 2012 7:52 AM