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Glenn Beck Wins Wednesday's Cable News Ratings Battle
Fox New's Glenn Beck might be losing advertisers, but he continues to remain popular with the public.In fact, on Wednesday evening, with conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh as his guest -- not to mention NewsBusters' own Seton Motley! -- Beck stole the cable news night.As reported by TVbytheNumbers.com moments ago:
NY Times Vet, Now Politics Site Chief at AOL: 'Kennedy Has Been a Huge
Melinda Henneberger, Editor-in-Chief of AOL's PoliticsDaily.com site where her bio touts how her “son’s first utterance beyond ma-ma and da-da really was 'algore,'” boasted on Thursday's Hardball of her infatuation with the late Senator Edward Kennedy and admiration for his left-wing policies, declaring: Ted Kennedy has been a huge inspiration to me and just listening to the coverage over the…
Douglas Brinkley on Ted Kennedy's Life: 'He Did a Kind of a Redemptive
Douglas Brinkley continued his use of religious imagery to gush about the legacy of Ted Kennedy and his apparent Catholicism on CNN’s Newsroom on Thursday. Brinkley did his best to paper over the many moral downfalls of the senator: “He’s asked to be forgiven by people. He did a kind of a redemptive work throughout his whole career. He would fall off the wagon....But he constantly said, I can do…
NYT: Ted Kennedy 'Attended Mass Every Day in the Year After His Mother
Thursday's front-page New York Times tribute to the last days of Sen. Ted Kennedy was penned by the paper's political profiler Mark Leibovich. Leibovich reliably showers love on liberal Democrats, as shown in his profiles of "happy warrior" Sen. Chris Dodd and "compelling pop-culture icon" Al Gore, but doesn't care much for Republicans like the "cantankerous" Rep. James Sensenbrenner or Sen.…
NBC's Curry Pushes McCain: Will 'Catalyst' of Kennedy Death Cause You
NBC's Ann Curry, on Thursday's "Today" show, asked Senator John McCain if "the death of Senator Kennedy" would "be the catalyst" to pass health care reform, but when the Arizona senator responded that it may change the partisan way in which the Democrats have had "no real negotiations" with the GOP to get it passed, Curry demanded that McCain and the Republicans should be the ones to relent as…
ABC Buries Harsh Kennedy Obit, One That Labels Him a ‘Failure,’ in
In the early hours of Wednesday, reporter John Donvan narrated a tough, comprehensive look at the life of Ted Kennedy, one that went so far as to assert that the Senator was sometimes "a let down, an embarrassment to his family, to his party, to himself." However, this eight and a half minute segment, which looked into Chappaquiddick, Kennedy’s cheating at Harvard and other scandals, aired at 2:…
Cash For Clunkers A 'Success' At Exposing Continued Decay at Bailed-Ou
Julia Seymour, Kyle Drennen, and several others at NewsBusters have done a great job (here and here, here, and here, just for starters) exposing the establishment media's rush to characterize the government's Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program, commonly known as "Cash for Clunkers" program, a success. This media meme has persisted despite processing snafus, slow payments to dealers,…
Portfolio Editor, HuffPo Contributor Matt Cooper Compares Kennedy Deat
"It feels a bit like 9/11 on Martha's Vineyard. End-of-summer weather is achingly beautiful but the mood is melancholy because of Teddy." [click image at right to see larger image of screen capture]Thus wrote Matt Cooper, editor of Conde Nast Portfolio on his Twitter page a few hours ago. The former Time magazine White House correspondent, who also writes for Huffington Post, walked back his…
CBS: Kennedy’s Death ‘Gives New Life’ to Health Care Reform
At the top of the 8AM ET hour of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Russ Mitchell wondered if Ted Kennedy’s death could "spur Congress to pass a health care reform bill?" Correspondent Nancy Cordes answered that question: "Kennedy’s death, in a way, gives new life to health care legislation, which has really taken a beating the past few weeks at town halls across the country."Cordes went on to…
CBS’s Rodriguez Fondly Remembers ‘Uncle Teddy
Sounding like a close friend or relative of Senator Ted Kennedy, at the top of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez proclaimed: "A life that was able to bring friends and enemies together....We’ll hear from one of those foes who became a friend as we broadcast from the John f. Kennedy Presidential Library where the body of Uncle Teddy will arrive today and lie in repose."Moments…
Bozell to FTC: Keep Your Paws Out of the News Media
Today Media Research Center (MRC) president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell denounced the Obama administration for its plans to delve into the private sector for the purposes of researching and regulating the national news media. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced plans for a two-day workshop in December to examine the state of the news industry - which could lead to…
MRC's Motley, FNC's Glenn Beck Inform Viewers About Policy Aims of FCC
Appearing on his program yesterday, Media Research Center's Seton Motley talked with Glenn Beck about the various regulations the FCC's new diversity czar Mark Lloyd wants to bring upon the terrestrial radio industry, particularly conservative-dominated talk radio.GLENN BECK: When you read the new diversity officer, what is the most disturbing thing that you have seen? What are the things that he…
Newsweek's Fineman Cites Awkward Truth: Obama Paying Now for 'Playing
Law of averages being what it is, only a matter of time before a moment of candor eluded the thought police on left-wing radio.Appearing on Ed Schultz's top-rated liberal radio show this past Monday, Newsweek chief political correspondent Howard Fineman provided an example of this when he traced Obama's difficulties in overhauling health care to his vague promises about reform during the '08…