FNC Hosts Play Class Warfare Card: Discuss "Outrageous" Perks

The lure of class warfare has now seduced even the Fox News Channel. The network, often derided by liberal critics as overly conservative, featured a segment on the May 2 edition of Fox & Friends about the "outrageous" perks that CEOs receive. Co-host E.D. Hill cynically teased the piece by asking, "You know, if you go to work, you get your paycheck, but don't you wish you got a plane too?"…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Claims Old People Skipping Food, Medicine Due to High Gas Prices

Monday’s CBS Evening News inaugurated a new series, “Eye on the Road,” the network’s latest gimmick to keep people outraged at the high cost of gasoline. Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi is driving from Florida to Boston to find people to complain about the high prices, and last night she highlighted senior citizens who are ostensibly sacrificing food and medicine because of Big Oil’s greediness.Alfonsi…
Rich Noyes

‘Hardball’ Declares Plamegate Has Worsened Iranian Nuclear Standof

On Monday’s 5PM EST version of “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews and MSNBC correspondent David Shuster made a number of factual misrepresentations and suppositions involving Valerie Plame/Wilson and the Bush administration (video link to follow). The most absurd part of this segment was Shuster’s suggestion that the current stalemate with Iran over its nuclear ambitions was exacerbated by the…
Noel Sheppard

Bush Outshines Comedian at WH Correspondents' Dinner

Greg Sheffield

CBS Kicks Off Another Road Trip on Gas Prices

Competitor ABC notes that prices are nowhere near record highs
Ken Shepherd

ABC Medical Journalist Has a Fever

And the only prescription is more regulation.
Ken Shepherd

NYT: US Soldiers "Daily Insults" Against Iraqi Civilians

Clay Waters

Philly Inquirer Has Tom Tancredo As "Short, Stocky, Italian

Jack Engelhard

When It Comes to Leaks, Media Know Best

Last week, I linked to a Wall Street Journal editorial about the elite media's double standard on leaks, especially how leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post that damaged the Bush admin's anti-terrorism efforts are awarded prizes while syndicated columnist Robert Novak is condemned for revealing the occupation of an outspoken Bush critic. Today, the Journal prints a letter from NYT…
Matthew Sheffield

Let The Media Makeover of Hillary Clinton Begin

When most women want a makeover, they spend a few hours at the beauty salon. If it’s for their prom, or their wedding, maybe they spend the better part of a day there.In the case of Sen. Hillary Clinton, the media must figure it’s going to take at least 30 months to makeover the lifetime, power-seeking politician into just a regular, apple pie-lovin' gal from Illinois that the average American…
Noel Sheppard

Tom Brokaw: Media, Military Both Like Nailing "Bad Guys" And Pointing

Tim Graham

USA Today's Duke Lacrosse Report is Blatantly Biased

While researching media coverage of the Duke lacrosse story, I came across a March 29 USA Today story, “Rape allegations cast pall at Duke.”Let’s look at USA Today's story which ran just five days after the media began reporting on the rape allegation and its fallout. I think even those of you with a low opinion of MSM will be shocked by the story’s blatant bias.USA Today reporter Sal Ruibal’s…
John Matthews

Al Qaeda Wields Press as a Terror Weapon

Greg Sheffield

Touchy, Touchy: Couric Claims "I Don't Have a Position" on ANWR Drilli

Mark Finkelstein