Leaving CBS, John Roberts Brings Biased Past to CNN
February 1st, 2006 1:06 PM
Once assumed to be the likely successor to Dan Rather, White House correspondent John Roberts is leaving CBS to become CNN's "senior national correspondent" starting February 20. At CBS, Roberts defined himself as part of that network's liberal spin machine -- castigating conservatives, adoring liberals -- highlights of which are documented in this 2004 Media Reality Check (obviously written…
Washington Post "Previews" State Of The Union Address With "Humor
January 31st, 2006 12:47 PM
The Washington Post has chosen to run on their opinion page this morning, in advance of tonight's State Of The Union Address, an apparent attempt at humor from someone named David Atkins. It's a mocking, snarky piece, that is, unfortunately for the Post, not close enough to reality to actually be funny. Written in the first person voice of President Bush, though strangely lacking in malaprop and…
NB Media Roundup: Liberal Infighting, Journo-Casulties and Our Old Fav
January 30th, 2006 12:41 AM
Democrats have figured out how to use the interwebs thingy. Staffers of Democrat representative Marty Meehan have gone into Wikipedia and removed all the (truthful) things they didn't like. Meanwhile, politicians wag a finger at Google for basically doing the exact same thing. You probably haven't heard anything about this story though because it was a Democrat and unless Karl Rove changes his…
Olbermann: FNC Just to the Left of Dracula, O'Reilly is "Bonkers
January 28th, 2006 1:44 AM
On his Countdown show Wednesday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann attacked the right-leaning media watchdog group Accuracy in Media for a piece by Cliff Kincaid criticizing Fox News Channel's recent "drifting to the left." Olbermann mocked the suggestion that liberal bias could exist on FNC and suggested that Fox News ideologically is just to the left of Vlad the Impaler, an infamous mass-murderer from…
LA Times Columnist Joel "I Don't Support Our Troops" Stein Defends His
January 25th, 2006 3:07 PM
A day after igniting furor over his Los Angeles Times column that began, "I don't support our troops," Joel Stein is still defending the piece and says he has no regrets about writing it.Reuters news service interviewed Stein,"Asked if he had regrets, [Stein] said: 'No, because I'm against the war. (I have no regrets) if this helps us get out of that war and bring our troops home safely'."The…
