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Brian Williams Worships Cronkite: I 'Was Able to Breathe the Air He Ex
It’s one thing to honor the deceased, but it’s another to suggest a mere human anchorman seemed like a god, whose set would be the site of a "pilgrimage" to the "center of the universe." On Friday night’s Larry King Live, NBC anchor Brian Williams oozed that he loved the anchor since childhood: "I have lived such a charmed life that I got the chance to explain that to Walter and tell him that and…
CBS Analyst: Taliban Treats Prisoners Better Than U.S
In reaction to a propaganda video of the Taliban holding an American soldier hostage in Afghanistan, on Monday’s CBS Early Show, terrorism analyst Jere Van Dyk argued: “What they [the Taliban] are saying is that ‘we can treat American soldiers, we can treat prisoners, better than Americans are treating them.’”Speaking to co-host Maggie Rodriguez about the capture of Private First Class Bowe…
MRC's Bozell Discusses Health Care, Card Check, Announces MRC Bailout
"The more these things are made public, the more the American people run like hell from them," Media Research Center President Brent Bozell told the hosts of "Fox & Friends", referring to an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that shows Democratic health care proposals will balloon in costs over their implementation. [audio available here]Indeed, as the Washington Post…
Bozell: The Media Need to Acknowledge There is No Health Care Crisis
Spreading the Word Media Research Center President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell today responded to a poll conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Zogby International that finds that 84 percent of Americans, including 46 percent of Americans without health insurance, are "very…
White House Delays Budget Update, Will Media Smell a Rat
The Associated Press Monday suggested that the White House's delay in releasing an update about the budget might be tied to the administration's desire to get controversial bills on healthcare reform and cap and trade passed before Congress and Americans know just how large the deficit really is.With this currently a featured link at the Drudge Report, and it coming from the leading wire service…
BBC: Anti-Gay Attitudes to Blame for High African HIV Rate
The BBC is reporting on the findings of a Lancet Medical Journal report regarding high HIV rates among gay men in some African countries. The conclusions? Blame anti-gay attitudes. HIV rates among gay men in some African countries are 10 times higher than among the general male population, says research in medical journal the Lancet.The report said prejudice towards gay people was leading to…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Rasmussen's 2012 presidential preview --Obama 45% Romney 45% Obama 48% Palin 42% Thoughts?
Paper Reports on Itself
I think this is an example of the distraction that the Internet and the New Media have driven the Old Media to, but it seems that the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia was so amazed that someone finally paid attention to its work that it had to write a whole story about itself to brag about how many webpage hits it got on a recent story by staffer Lily Gordon.
The L-E was all excited that it…
Couric: Like Cronkite, I Get 'Grief From Both Sides Of Aisle
Katie Couric provided some comic relief on this morning's Early Show, preaching the importance of objectivity in reporting. As evidence of her impartiality, the CBS Evening News anchor cited the fact that, as did Cronkite, she has gotten "grief from both sides of the aisle."Now I suppose some of the more radical elements of the Red Army Faction might have found something to quibble with in…
Just How Much Do Washington Post Readers (and Editors) Hate Dick Chene
Is there any doubt The Washington Post is a liberal paper? Three weeks back, the Post announced a contest asking readers to write an amusing first paragraph of Dick Cheney’s memoirs, since he was signed by the conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster. (This game wasn't played with Bill or Hillary Clinton.) On Sunday, the Post published 28 phony introductions: "we challenged readers to propose…
Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberal
In 2006 the MRC put together a compilation outlining how, since his retirement in 1981 after nineteen years as anchor of the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite had made clear his liberal views on a range of issues. For the full collection of Cronkite's liberal pronouncements, and denunciations of conservatives, since the late 1980s check the MRC's “Walter Cronkite: Liberal Media Icon.” Categories…
AP Report on 'Card Check' Status Laden With Biased-Charged Words and A
No one can finish Saturday's report by Sam Hananel of the Associated Press without knowing the side of the political aisle on which he resides (surprise -- not -- it's decidedly on the left), and that he is more sympathetic to the interests of organized labor than he is to those of management at non-union firms.Additionally, no one can doubt that Hananel, and perhaps his editor(s), have little…
Nets Plug Kennedy's 'Dramatic' and 'Emotional Pitch for Health Care Re
Newsweek engaged itself deeper in the battle for nationalized health care by turning over its cover story -- “We're Almost There” -- to Senator Ted Kennedy for his lengthy personal recitation of “the cause of my life.” ABC and NBC on Sunday night dutifully championed his cause as World News anchor Dan Harris highlighted how “Kennedy is using his own battle against brain cancer to make an…