Unbelievable Media Hypocrisy
October 6th, 2005 12:39 AM
The double-standards in today’s news coverage defy belief.For most of September, Americans were bombarded almost 24 hours a day with declarations by media representatives and Democratic leaders as to the incompetence of President Bush. During this time, we watched our president and members of his administration such as Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff and former Federal Emergency…
MSNBC Reporter David Shuster Bashes His Old Employer, Fox News
October 5th, 2005 4:30 PM
MSNBC's Hardball correspondent David Shuster revealed he is a lot more comfortable at MSNBC than he was at Fox News. In an interview for the Herald Times the Bloomington, Indiana bred Shuster told his hometown paper he feels more at home with the liberal MSNBC. The following is from the October 2nd interview with the Times' Mike Leonard. I've bolded the more illuminating portions:"The NBC and…
Business As Usual For Big Media
October 5th, 2005 1:44 PM
At a citizen journalism conference organized by The Media Center, Big Media institutions are quickly coming to the realization that they are no longer in control. Some are taking it better than others. Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC World Service and Global News Division, told a conference the broadcaster's prominent use of video and other material contributed by ordinary citizens signaled…
Editor & Publisher's Wishful Thinking
October 5th, 2005 1:40 AM
Once upon a time, Editor and Publisher, as "America’s Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry," had a certain degree of respectability. These days, conspiratorial speculation and advocacy are every bit as important as fact, and the byline "By E&P Staff" means that anything to follow needs to be parsed very carefully to distill facts from wishful, often overtly partisan projection. A…
Koppel and MSNBC Chief Kaplan Heap Praise on Rather, Denigrate His Cri
October 4th, 2005 6:06 AM
Dan Rather's national media colleagues rallied around him, and denigrated his critics, at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards presented by the National Television Academy at a September 19 ceremony, where Rather was honored with a lifetime achievement award, which C-SPAN aired Saturday night. ABC's Ted Koppel praised Rather as “a man of honesty and integrity and decency.” Referring to Rather's…
CBS Evening News Never Touched Durbin, But Leads with Bennett
September 30th, 2005 8:38 PM
The CBS Evening News, which in June never uttered a syllable about Democratic Senator Dick Durbin's incendiary comments, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, equating U.S. servicemens' treatment of detainees at Guantanamo with the Nazi regime and the Soviet gulags, on Friday led with remarks made by Bill Bennett, just two days earlier, on his morning radio show. With “Bennett Blunder” on screen,…
