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Public Radio Judges 'Green' Products Guilty of 'Greenwashing
NPR broadcast lays out sins committed by companies with eco-friendly products.
CBS ‘Early Show’: Religious Right Turns Left for Hillary
Furthering the media’s love affair with Hillary Clinton, Friday’s CBS "Early Show" featured a segment on her recent speech at Saddleback Church in Southern California and how Evangelical Christians may be moving to the left in 2008. As co-host Harry Smith wondered at the top of the show, "Hillary Clinton addresses an Evangelical megachurch in California. Is it really possible that the Christian…
CNN Covers, ‘Big 3' Networks Ignore Murtha ‘Surge is Working’ St
The "Big Three" networks’ morning shows all ignored Representative John Murtha’s "the surge [in Iraq] is working" comments during a recent video conference. On the other hand, CNN’s "American Morning," during its 6 am Eastern hour "Political Ticker" segment, covered the Pennsylvania Congressman’s apparent shift in opinion. Murtha, who became a bit of a media darling for his anti-Iraq war stance,…
ABC Reporter Kate Snow Continues to Smile and Spin for Hillary
On Friday's "Good Morning America," reporter Kate Snow continued her habit of happily spinning Hillary Clinton's campaign maneuvering as nothing less than brilliant politics by the presidential candidate. She parroted talking points from the '08 contender's campaign about how smart it would be to target South Carolina voters who frequent hair salons. Sitting in a sylist booth, a smiling Snow…
Economy Grew More than We Knew, but Networks Barely Notice
CBS, NBC do find time to report Bush administration's reduced growth forecast.
Erin Burnett Calls Bush AND Angela Merkel a 'Monkey' on Morning Joe
With embedded video below the fold On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a "monkey" during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China. During the news piece, Burnett said that she couldn't see how anyone couldn't have a "man-crush on that man," in an apparent…
ChiTrib Blogger Asks if Sudan Teddy Bear Case Sent 'Fair Message' to B
"Should all have been forgiven or does the teacher's sentence send a fair message that foreigners sholud [sic] be more sensitive when it comes to religion?"Thus concludes Manya Brachear's November 29 post to the Chicago Tribune's "The Seeker" religion news blog. Brachear was opening discussion up in her comments thread to the case of British subject Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old private school…
Countries Missing Kyoto Targets, Taxpayers to Foot the Bill
As climate alarmists around the world head to a tropical paradise on Bali next week to discuss how developed nations should pay to solve global warming, an inconvenient truth has emerged: many countries that are part of the Kyoto Protocol are going to dramatically overshoot their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits. While it seems a metaphysical certitude that America's green media will…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Will there be any fallout from CNN's debate debacles, or will they go largely ignored by the mainstream media and get swept under the rug?
Work Nights, Eat Salt and Die
So that's why they call it "the graveyard shift."There's little the MSM likes more than to report the latest thing that's bad for us. Today's news brings a double-header of doom: night shifts and salt.First, the AP reports that the UN's World Health Organization will soon list working the night shift "as a 'probable' cause of cancer."Then Reuters informs us that the Center for Science in the…
'Knight Rider' Rides Again-- This Time Fights Military Contractors
UPDATE BELOW: See the the new KITTWho's Hollywood's latest Big Bad Villain? Private military contractors--giving rise to a new version of Derangement Syndrome: Blackwater Derangement Syndrome or BwDS.Echoing lefty rage at Blackwater, TV shows from “Boston Legal” to “Jericho” have turned contractors into the bad guys.NBC's upcoming two-hour movie/backdoor pilot “Knight Rider” is no different, but…