BaltSun Runs Obligatory Sad Old People Story About Digital TV Conversi

Did you know that elderly people are utterly hopeless sad sacks who can't adapt to change?That's what readers of the Baltimore Sun were basically greeted with in a February 17 story -- "Some left out in switch from analog to digital signal" -- which dutifully found two elderly women who are unprepared for a partial TV-less existence since two Baltimore stations ditched their analog signals at…
Ken Shepherd

Bill Press's Reason to Support Fairness Doctrine: 'I Want to be Heard

After getting smacked around by Fox News's Megyn Kelly Monday, liberal talker Bill Press went on WOR radio's Steve Malzberg Show and accidentally exposed his real goal in supporting a re-enactment of the Fairness Doctrine: he wants to be heard.In fact, he also wants the Fairness Doctrine back for his own financial gain:I know why I'm interested in it because I get up every morning at 3:45, I do…
Noel Sheppard

On 'Today': Rove Takes Obama to Task On Mortgage Mess

Karl Rove was invited on Tuesday's "Today" show to discuss Obama's stimulus plan and NBC's Matt Lauer pressed the former Bush senior adviser about the one-sidedness of the vote on the bill by the GOP as he pressed Rove: "219, if you add up the House and the Senate we have what, 219 Republicans. All but three of them voted against this plan...do those 216 Republicans run the risk of being on the…
Geoffrey Dickens

Fox's Megyn Kelly Debates Bill Press About Fairness Doctrine

Fox News's Megyn Kelly debated liberal talk radio host Bill Press on Monday's "America's Newsroom," and the sparks were flying from the opening bell.Kelly deliciously began the segment:Hi, Bill. You have a little self-interest on this one perhaps?Yah think? But that was just the beginning (video embedded below the fold):
Noel Sheppard

How the Networks Promoted the Biggest Spending Bill in History: Execut

ABC, CBS, NBC put positive spin on huge growth of government.
Dan Gainor

Fox-Phobic NPR Veep Ellen Weiss Has Husband On Obama Faith Council

News broke Thursday that Ellen Weiss, senior vice president for news at National Public Radio, insisted that Juan Williams must tell Fox News that his NPR affiliation should not be mentioned or pictured on The O’Reilly Factor. (Weiss also banished a Williams interview with President Bush from the airwaves of NPR in 2007, so it just aired on Fox News.) But what about Ellen Weiss’s potential…
Tim Graham

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Alexandra Pelosi Oozes Elitism in Interview About Her 'Angry Conservat

The Alexandra Pelosi (daughter of Nancy) documentary, "Right America: Feeling Wronged," premiered on HBO last night. One word perfectly describes it: "tedious." Over and over and over again, Pelosi tries to hammer home the point that conservatives are angry because they just don't know what is best for them. And what is best is Obama...at least in Pelosi's opinion. Overall, her documentary offers…
P.J. Gladnick

Unheroic Superheroes, Watch Out for the Watchmen

If you thought the last Batman movie, The Dark Knight, was dark and cynical, wait until you see Watchmen, arriving in theaters on March 6, 2009. Brooding Bruce Wayne will have nothing on a "hero" that rapes his sidekick, another one that has no interest in mankind at all, one that is a megalomaniac, one that is psychotic, and one that is overweight and sexually impotent all set against a backdrop…
Warner Todd Huston

The New Yorker: Obama Like Gandhi

We've seen the Obamacized media call President Obama Lincoln, we've heard him called FDR and Kennedy, we've been informed that he gives newsers a thrill up their leg. The media has even ridiculously called Barack Obama a "light worker." He is The One, their Obammessiah. Well, we can now add another undue adulation to the media's obsession of finding great figures to compare Obama to: Mahatma…
Warner Todd Huston

Rep. Waxman Wants to Apply Censorship Doctrine to Internet

 If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is not trying to investigate conservatives, he is trying to squelch their voices.  Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late.  Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue...the internet (h/t The Prowler). Media Research Center's Jeff Poor spoke with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell last year about the internet and…
Kerry Picket

Stimulus Bill Attempts to Impose Once-Moribund 'Net Neutrality': CNet

If you haven't figured it out yet, the fact that lawmakers in Washington who voted for the mislabeled "stimulus" bill championed by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid did so without reading it, let alone understanding it, means that in the coming weeks (or months?) we'll be learning about all manner of items in the legislation that "nobody" knew about. But that didn't stop House and…
Tom Blumer

Conservatives Need Not Apply To Shuster's New Blog Segment

So much for any pretense of balance. Looks like David Shuster has taken a page from Keith Olbermann's playbook: play exclusively to your crowd; exclude any alternative voices.Announcing this evening a new regular feature focusing on the blogosphere on his 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue show, Shuster made it clear that conservatives need not apply.DAVID SHUSTER: Every day at this time, we're going to…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC Giddy Over 'Presidential Whirlwind' & 'Remarkable' Photos of Obama

Get Diane Sawyer together with George Stephanopoulos on World News and they can't contain their giddiness over President Obama. Back on Friday, January 23, when Sawyer last anchored, Stephanopoulos hailed Obama's first three days as “disciplined and strategic,” thus enabling “sweeping change,” while Sawyer gushed over “change...at warp speed.” Monday night, Sawyer returned to the anchor chair…
Brent Baker