ABC News: Conservatives Are Biggest Porn Consumers
February 28th, 2009 10:20 AM
ABC News is excited about porn. At least excited by the "fact" that conservative and religious states have the highest levels of porn usage in the country. This, ABC says, is according to a study by Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. Yes, it's another one of those dime-a-dozen studies.
ABC trumpets the bare "facts" in its February 28 piece titled, "Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are…
CNN'S Pilgrim Debunks Hate Group Hysteria Peddled by CNN's Sanchez
February 27th, 2009 4:58 PM
Within hours of CNN Newsroom anchor Rick Sanchez bemoaning a purported increase in the number of hate groups, CNN correspondent Kitty Pilgrim provided some much needed network balance by reporting - get ready here - facts. On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Rick Sanchez asked a question and then, as usual, provided his own answer:SANCHEZ: Since the administration of Barack Obama began in this country,…
CBS: Michelle Obama ‘Feeling Right At Home’ In White House
February 27th, 2009 12:57 PM
Teasing a fawning segment on First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric declared: "And the lady of the house feeling right at home." Couric later introduced the segment: "And finally tonight, ever since Abigail Adams moved into the White House in 1800, every First Lady has brought her own personal touch to the executive mansion, and the city of Washington. As…
CNN'S Kyra Phillips to Stevie Wonder: 'Come Back and See Us Again, OK
February 27th, 2009 12:54 AM
It admittedly doesn't come close to her ladies' room rant about her sister-in-law, but CNN Newsroom anchor Kyra Phillips experienced another oops moment Wednesday. She devoted almost seven minutes to interviewing singer Stevie Wonder. The musician was awarded the Gershwin Prize, and Wednesday evening would be honored in the White House. So she let Stevie enthusiastically speak of someone she…
NY Times Got Pranked By the 'Dating a Banker Anonymous' Girls
February 25th, 2009 4:57 PM
It's official: The New York Times got pranked by the girls of "Dating a Banker Anonymous," referred to in a fizzy Times profile last month as a "support group" dedicated to women whose "monthly Bergdorf's allowance has been halved."Linda Holmes, blogging at National Public Radio, was dubious from the start: "Isn't it totally obvious that this is a put-on?" She dismissed the idea of a "support…
'Access Hollywood' Acts Holier Than Thou
February 25th, 2009 4:28 PM
“Access Hollywood,” NBC’s nightly entertainment show, reports salacious celebrity gossip as “news.” It gets ratings and ad dollars for dishing about sex, drugs, violence, rehab and any other misbehavior by people in the public eye. But when it comes to the mother of the octuplets, well, Access Hollywood is suddenly above reporting that story.Entertainment reporter Billy Bush told viewers on the…
On That Story of Chinese Mistress Driving Lover and 4 Rivals off a Cli
February 24th, 2009 9:27 AM
Remember that juicy story last week of the Chinese mistress that convinced her rivals and her lover to go for a drive? The mistress that then drove them all off a cliff in revenge for being dumped for one of the rivals by the lover?
Great story. It had pathos, humor, revenge and... apparently it never happened. The U.S. media picked this story up from the Chinese speaking media and ran with it…
So. Fla. Sun-Sentinel: Slams Hysterics Over Gun Banning While Advocati
February 24th, 2009 3:35 AM
Seriously, do the kindly folks at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's editorial board even know what the definition of the word logic is? Their headline read, "Hysteria fuels sales of guns and ammo," the Sun-Sentinel takes Floridians to task for being so stupid as to be afraid of Obama's gun banning plans, claiming that Obama "didn't do it." But, even after telling readers no one wants to ban guns,…
CBS’s Smith ‘Wept Openly’ Over Sean Penn’s Milk Performance
February 23rd, 2009 11:30 AM
On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith played a clip of himself talking to left-wing actor Sean Penn following the Oscars Sunday night: "In a night full of first-time winners, Sean Penn took home his second Oscar as best actor for his emotional performance as slain gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk in Milk. I caught up with him and other big winners at the Governor's Ball." During…
In Harris Hero Poll, Obama First, Jesus Second
February 20th, 2009 8:04 PM
This made my weekend. Yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times reported "Obama beats out Jesus as America's hero." The article starts:ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Americans named President Obama as their No. 1 hero, followed by Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, in a new Harris poll.Others in the top 10, in descending order, were Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, John McCain, John F. Kennedy, Chesley…
MSNBC: Oil Wealth To Blame For Sexism in Middle East
February 20th, 2009 5:51 PM
During the 3:00PM EST hour of MSNBC news coverage, anchor Norah O’Donnell discovered the source of sexism in the Middle East was not Islamic fundamentalism, but rather, capitalism: "And to another big story, is oil behind sexism in the Middle East? It's a provocative new theory out there today, suggesting the real culprit of the lower status of women in the Middle East is because of the region's…
Networks Ignore Condom Ad That Offends Christians
February 20th, 2009 3:33 PM
It’s not a cartoon of a turban-shaped bomb, and probably nobody will threaten violence over it, but members of a religion are outraged over a depiction, and the networks aren’t interested. Only Fox News covered the story about a blasphemous condom advertisement.Catholics and Protestants alike are furious over a flier that appeared on the University of Georgia campus displaying the famous…
