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Report: Vanity Fair Kills Annual 'Green Issue
Publisher will add eco-reporting to all issues; admits financial crisis has taken focus off environment.
CBS Blasts Palin in Ridiculous ‘Scandal’ Segment
Recent earthquake activity in Alaska provided “CBS Early Show” co-hosts with a ready-made metaphor for a segment on the personal lives of some of the those surrounding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. But their quake turned out to be barely a ripple. Hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez couldn’t contain their smirks as they introduced the piece. “There's been an earthquake rumbling outside…
ABC Touts Gun Control Group; Hypes Special on Firearms
On Monday's "Good Morning America," reporter David Muir highlighted a rabidly pro-gun control group as an expert on weapons, without referencing the organization's political stance. The journalist also promoted "If I Only Had a Gun," an ABC special to air Friday night that seems to argue for tighter restrictions on firearms. During a segment on the tragic shootings in Pittsburgh and New York,…
CNN's Obama Fan Roland Martin Claims He's Really Religious and Moderat
Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz treaded on dangerous ground Monday, covering a CNN personality (when Kurtz is also a CNN personality.) His profile of Roland Martin acknowledges that Martin was brought on CNN routinely as a liberal Obama supporter during the last campaign, which makes it a little silly for him to be the fill-in host of a show called "No Bias, No Bull." But then we learn that…
Huffington Calls Suspension of Mark-to-Market Accounting 'Absolutely T
She's been popping up in a lot of places lately to chime in on the economy. This time Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington appeared on ABC's April 5 "This Week," where she voiced her disapproval of the March 30 decision by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) relaxing mark-to-market accounting rules. "This week, we saw so many concessions to the banks," Huffington…
Full Disclosure Fail: WaPo Writer Gushes Glories of 'Guerrilla Queer B
All parties, no matter how rip-roaringly fun, must eventually come to an end. Hardly any of them get a newspaper obituary. But Washington Post's Monica Hesse was on hand to offer a parting toast to the "Guerrilla Queer Bar", wherein gay and lesbian revelers would "invade" a "straight bar" to dance and drink the night away, all in the name of promoting "tolerance" of alternative lifestyles.Alas,…
FSA Member Org ACRU Pens Great Essay for WashTimes on Freedom to Liste
As has been mentioned here before, the Media Research Center is heading up the Free Speech Alliance (FSA). Made up thus far of sixty-five organizations, the FSA is dedicated to protecting the freedom of speech of all practitioners of conservative and Christian talk radio from any and all government regulatory censorship.Well here is an excellent piece by Peter Ferrara of the American Civil…
On CNN, Obama Advisor Hits Cheney: Not a 'Statesman' (Skips Gore's Att
Video Below FoldIt is always interesting to see the Democratic pot calling the Republican kettle black and here we have only the latest example of that with Obama's top advisor attacking former Vice President Dick Cheney for his outspoken position on the failures of the Obama administration's early efforts in office. But, as advisor David Axelrod was attacking Cheney, there doesn't seem to be any…
CBS Plugs McCarthy’s Call for Gun Control as She Frets: ‘All They
On Sunday's CBS Evening News, without providing a pro-gun rights view for balance, correspondent Randall Pinkston filed a report which featured the views of two public figures who support an assault weapons ban, including a clip of Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat and leading supporter of gun control in Congress, as she complained about her efforts being thwarted by the NRA.…
'Progressive' Talk Host Stephanie Miller Blames Liberal Radio Struggle
Everywhere it's been tried - liberal, or progressive as it's sometimes described as, talk radio hasn't taken off with the success conservative talk radio has. Case and point - the top six of March 2009 Talkers magazine "Heavy Hundred" talk show hosts are conservative. The top liberal host, Thom Hartmann, come in at number 10. However, liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller appeared on CNN's…
ABC Hosts ‘Controversial’ Guest Debunking Gun Control’s Effectiv
On Sunday's Good Morning America, ABC co-anchor Kate Snow interviewed New York University Professor Jim Jacobs, author of Can Gun Control Work?, as the show gave attention to the view that gun control has little effect in stopping criminals from obtaining guns. While it is to the show's credit that they allowed him to make his case as Snow presented a contrarian point-of-view, Snow did seem…