Media Madness and Bizarre Booking
February 1st, 2007 12:56 PM
Occasionally I'm contacted by media
organizations who want to tape an interview, usually when events occur
which will impact military families. Right before the President's
speech on the way forward in Iraq, I received some media requests. The
aim was to come to my home, film me watching the speech and then
interview me about my reaction to what was said. I have never done a
television…
LATimes: US Reaction to 9/11 Just a 'Massive Overreaction
January 31st, 2007 7:37 AM
Nearly 3,000 Americans killed in a series of attacks on one single day -- the most American civilians ever killed in a single day with coordinated attacks -- was no big deal as far as David Bell writing for the L.A. Times is concerned.
The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we're overreacting.
See, they know this because Russia had a bad time of it during WWII.
...…
‘Fox and Friends’ Anchors Mock CNN's Anderson Cooper
January 30th, 2007 6:54 PM
The cable news war is certainly getting hotter. After a Fox News spokesperson was quoted last week by the New York Times as calling CNN’s Anderson Cooper “the Paris Hilton of television news,” the “Fox & Friends” morning crew took the baton and really ran with it.The following video posted Monday at YouTube shows “F&F” personalities having fun with a new Fox News print ad depicting Cooper…
The Most Connected Man in News Is Back
January 30th, 2007 4:06 PM
The dust-up
over where Anderson Cooper hangs his hat is heating up again with
ex-Fox News "whistleblower" Charlie Reina going back to the MSM gossip
boards to drop unverified bombs.
You've probably never heard of Charlie Reina. He made news by his report in a MSM forum claiming to have witnessed bias first-hand at Fox News. This was swallowed by all the usual
co-conspirators
and parroted…
NYTimes Reveals Distrust of 'Law Abiding' Citizens
January 30th, 2007 4:42 AM
The New York Times thinks you are a criminal if you own a gun. The editorial writers at the Times simply don't believe that you could possibly be a law abiding citizen if you are interested in self defense, their most recent anti-gun piece reveals.
Their January 30th piece, incongruously titled "A Day Without Guns ..." -- incongruous because the piece itself does not address any such subject as…
NBC’s ‘Crossing Jordan’ Attacks Ann Coulter With Mental Afflicti
January 29th, 2007 10:30 AM
Bill O’Reilly’s war on liberal bias at NBC took an interesting turn Sunday evening when one of the network’s hit dramas decided to attack Ann Coulter for no apparent reason (h/t Hot Air with video available here).As Dr. Nigel Townsend (Steve Valentine) attended to a whiny blonde woman, he asked, “So, how long have you suffered from “ACS”? When she gives him a blank stare, he responded: “Ann…
CBS Report Uses al Qaeda Propaganda Film, Claims It's 'CBS Obtained
January 29th, 2007 3:31 AM
So, here is a question: Why is CBS using propaganda film originally posted on an al Qaeda website and claiming it is merely "CBS obtained" with no mention of the actual source for Lara Logan's report on The "Battle of Haifa Street"? The anti-Iraq website called Iraqslogger posted a story about how CBS reporter Lara Logan is crying that CBS seems to have spiked her "Haifa Street" story. Logan has…
DKos’s Stark and NB’s Sheppard Debate Liberal Blog Protests of Con
January 28th, 2007 11:59 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting for the past couple of weeks, a battle is being waged between liberal bloggers and a conservative radio station in San Francisco. Those that are unfamiliar with this issue should read articles covering both sides of the matter here and here.Two of the most outspoken voices on the Internet regarding this subject have been Mike Stark, who writes for Daily Kos and…
