What's With 'Fair and Balanced' Fox's One-Sided Global Warming Special
November 14th, 2005 12:20 PM
The Free Market Project's Dan Gainor has critiqued the Fox News Channel special, "The Heat is On," a one-hour, one-sided special featuring environmental activists/celebrities Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Laurie David, wife of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David.Gainor noted in his review that Fox News coverage of global warming and climate change stories had heretofore been the most balanced of all…
Newspaper Apologizes for 'Lesbian' Photo Caption
November 14th, 2005 10:20 AM
The News-Times (Conn.) is no different from any other newspaper, except that they just got busted doing what journalists often do behind the curtain; make fun of the religious. News-Times ran a photo online of the Immaculate High School girls' soccer team after scoring a winning goal. Unfortunately for them, they forgot to change the caption from "celebrating a teammate's decision to come out of…
MSNBC Relies on Partisans to Distort What O'Reilly Said
November 11th, 2005 2:42 PM
You know you're reading an unfair attack article when they're too scared to even use a byline. Today someone at MSNBC relied on partisan activists Media Matters to go after Bill O'Reilly for saying "that it was A-OK for terrorists to wipe the city [San Francisco] off the map."That's not what he said at all. I was listening when he said it. The article reads:At issue are comments from O'Reilly's…
Mapes Insists She's Both Liberal & Conservative, Unaware If Registered
November 11th, 2005 12:31 AM
Asked by Bill O'Reilly Thursday night on FNC whether she's a liberal, Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer fired in January for her role in the forged National Guard memos and representations she made to her colleagues, first put up the usual avoidance device of a liberal -- “I'm not sure what a liberal is” -- before insisting that “like a lot of Americans, I'm all over the map.” In the taped…
Fox News Shelves "Fair and Balanced" Template For Global Warming Speci
November 10th, 2005 11:45 AM
Fox News Channel on Sunday will air, albeit with a disclaimer, a one-sided documentary on global warming featuring liberal environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. A Fox News Channel documentary on "global warming," set to air Sunday night, provides only the liberal take on the controversial issue and was approved after environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reportedly "dragged" Fox News…
Mapes Tells CNN's King She Had No Political Agenda, Charges Bloggers
November 9th, 2005 10:59 PM
Asked by Larry King Wednesday night live on CNN whether she had a personal agenda against President George W. Bush, Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer fired in January for her role in the forged National Guard memos and representations she made to her colleagues, shot back: "Oh my God no, no of course not.” She insisted that “Dan Rather and I did stories on Hillary Clinton, we did stories on the…
Nets Paint Results as Slap at Bush, But in '97 Saw No Rebuke of Clinto
November 9th, 2005 9:17 PM
Eight years ago, when a Democrat was President and Republicans won the governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather gave the results a piddling 12 seconds, didn't even utter the names of the winners and made clear that local issues -- “the high cost of automobile insurance and a tax on car ownership” -- were “the key issues.” But on Wednesday night, the same…
New CBS News President McManus: “I Don't See” Any Liberal Bias On
November 9th, 2005 5:51 PM
At a Tuesday meeting with CBS News staff, new CBS News President Sean McManus asserted that the people of CBS News “do a darned good job at” shutting out their political opinions and so “I don't see” any liberal bias in CBS News coverage. Vaughn Ververs recounted in a Tuesday evening posting for the “Public Eye” blog on CBSNews,com: “Asked if he feels the need to address perceptions that CBS has…
