Diane Dishes But Can't Take: Sawyer Accuses Larry Elder of 'Attacking
Touchy, touchy! Diane Sawyer is in the business of dishing out tough questions and challenging people's answers. But when a guest on today's "Good Morning America" politely corrected her on a First Amendment matter, the GMA host was quick to accuse him of "attacking" her.Los Angeles-based radio talk show host Larry Elder was Diane's guest, in to discuss the Imus matter. Sawyer introduced him…
CBS Advertising for Interns on Facebook
It seems CBS is expanding its search for interns by placing not just ads on its Web site, but sponsored "news feed" items on Facebook, a social networking site popular among college students and recent college graduates:Attention aspiring journalists. SponsoredShareLaunch your journalism career with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work directly with Katie Couric and CBS News.NB's Tim…
60 Minutes Ignores Warnings, Broadcasts Faulty Left-Wing Data on Drug
The National Center for Public Policy Research's health care senior policy analyst, David Hogberg, contacted the CBS television show "60 Minutes" five times last week -- by telephone, fax and e-mail -- to warn the show's producers that a report by the leftie big-government health care lobby group Families USA, which "60 Minutes" planned to highlight in Sunday's show, rested on faulty data.
The…
Law Firm Dems Hired to Probe Attorney Firings Gave Heavily to Dem Camp
This is a developing story, so there's room for it to play out a bit, but the law firm congressional Democrats are hiring to help plow through the U.S. attorney firings, Arnold & Porter, has a history of heavy donations towards Democrats.From the last two paragraphs of a March 28 Associated Press story:[House Judiciary Committee Chairman John] Conyers , meanwhile, has signed
a contract…
Vieira to McCain About War Opponents: 'What Are We Missing
From the moment she participated in an anti-war march in NYC at the time of the 2004 GOP convention, there's been little doubt as to where Meredith Vieira stands on Iraq. Even so, it was something of a shock to hear the "Today" co-host express her opposition in the first person plural this morning.Discussing the war with Sen. John McCain [R-AZ] at about 7:05 AM ET this morning, she said:"Six…
