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Katie’s Ratings Plummet
It appears the early fascination with Katie Couric as an evening anchor has fallen quicker than temperatures in the Northeast. Drudge is reporting the perky one's ratings for Monday, Oct. 16, 2006:NEW YORK CITYWABC 7.1WNBC 5.3 WCBS 3.7LOS ANGELESKABC 5.9KNBC 3.1KCBS 1.5WASHINGTON, DCNBC 9.3ABC 7.8CBS 2.5 Yikes. This certainly coincides with views expressed by Variety’s Brian Lowry on October 15 (…
Guest: Moyers Said He'd Help Democrats (Updated: Moyers Denies, Guest
PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers asked "Is God Green?" in his liberal campaign trilogy "Moyers in America" last week. Over at Businessandmedia.org, Rachel Waters noted that Moyers insisted that conservatives were only "mildly joking" with the hang-em-high bumper sticker "Support Environmentalists With a Rope." Catholic blogger Jimmy Akin tipped me off to another angle. One Christian expert Moyers…
CBS Evening News Takes Seriously Conspiracy About Bush Manipulating Ga
Although a Monday CBS Evening News story included a soundbite from an expert dismissing the idea as “preposterous,” the newscast treated a far-left conspiracy theory -- about how the Bush administration is somehow manipulating the pump price for gas to help in the election -- as credible and worthy enough to deserve a broadcast network story. Citing how the price of a gallon of gas has fallen to…
Matthews Tells Baker 'Democrats Not My Party Anymore
Doth Chris Matthews protest too much?On this afternoon's 'Hardball,' interviewing James Baker about his new book on a life in politics, Matthews alluded to the risk of a political party fracturing in the course of a presidential primary campaign: "How do you hold your party together when you have people, secular candidates like John McCain who's often in that [guest] chair, and Rudy Giuliani…
ABC Begins Weeklong 'Prescription' for Government Health Care
But USA Today noted public opposition when people learned of high costs.
NB on TV: Brent Bozell on CNBC
NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center, appeared Monday on CNBC's "Kudlow and Company" where he discussed how the media are misreporting the economy.The segment, in which Bozell appeared with Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, was prompted by a new Special Report study from the MRC's Business & Media Institute, "Bad News Bears:…
Has Yahoo Caught the Liberal Bias Virus
Has another Internet giant gotten the Liberal Bias Virus? Well, the Associated Press is reporting that Yahoo is extending its relationship with CBS to offer more of its news clips beginning Tuesday:Yahoo already shows national and international news from CBS' "60 Minutes" as well as Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and Time Warner Inc.'s CNN. The latest deal will allow Yahoo to post 10 to 20 local news…