'World News' Hits the Bottle Again

Julia A. Seymour

'World News' Hits the (Water) Bottle Again

For the second night, ABC targets the bottled water industry's impact on the environment.
Jeff Poor

Olbermann Guffaws at Vitter's 'Serious Sin', Hints Hypocrisy with FRC

Ken Shepherd

CNN Uses Screen Shot of NB Blog on 'Slap Happy Katie' Couric

NB Staff

ABC, CBS Ignore Drug Angle of Gore Son; Stephanopoulos Gushes Over Nov

Kristin Gore, daughter of former Vice President Al Gore and author of a new political satire set in Washington, appeared on the Tuesday editions of "Good Morning America" and "The Early Show." Both shows only gingerly addressed the subject of Kristin’s brother, Albert Gore III., and his arrest for marijuana and prescription-drug possession after being pulled over last week in California. GMA…
Scott Whitlock

Former Weather Channel Bigwig Debunks IPCC and Global Warming Hysteria

Joseph D’Aleo is likely not a household name. However his bona fides when it comes to meteorology are such that when he suggests that “a [small] cadre of agenda-driven scientists and statesmen” inside the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provided a “more alarmist interpretation” of the facts concerning manmade global warming, and “the media took the most extreme of the…
Noel Sheppard

Wolf Gets Blitzed by Michael Moore

Pity the journalist who dares accuse Michael Moore of “fudging” facts. Dr. Sanjay Gupta offered a “SiCKO” reality check for CNN viewers, and CNN brought Michael Moore on “The Situation Room” to rebut the segment.“That report was so biased, I can’t imagine what pharmaceutical company ads coming up right after our break here,” Moore lashed out against Wolf Blitzer on July 9.Apparently in Moore’s…
Julia A. Seymour

Moore Blitzes Blitzer, Demands Apology from CNN

Filmmaker attacks network for corporate funding, and 'fudging' facts on the 'Situation Room.'
Jeff Poor

Army Recruiting Goals: Another Example of the Media's Management of th

Of late, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been arguing that the mainstream media persistently exercise the "management" of the news. That is to say, aside from slanted and biased reporting on the news of the day, they frame news developments in a way that manage events to fit a preconceived meme or storyline.The media's coverage of Army recruiting numbers is no exception.Bear in mind these…
Ken Shepherd

Big Three Nets' Evening News Viewership Falls to Under 20 Million

From Media Bistro: That's less than 20 million (19,940,000) for all three combined, and a 5.4% drop from the low-water mark of a year ago. The 25-54 demo for all three nets was under 6 million (5,920,000), and their combined 25-54 demo ratings of 4.9/21 are down 14% and 19% from last year's 5.7/26. Ouch. You don't suppose that almost 20 years of Media Research Center truth-telling about…
Tom Blumer

ABC Bashes Bottled Water Companies, Ignores the One RFK Jr. Owns

As the Business and Media Institute reported, ABC’s “World News” on Sunday castigated people for drinking bottled water.Yet, it seems the folks at ABC weren’t aware that environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., actually owns a – wait for it! – bottled water company (h/t to NBers lumberjack and dscott).As BMI’s Jeff Poor reported Monday:“With every sip are you actually hurting the…
Noel Sheppard

Buenos Aires Snow First in 89 Years, Will Media Care

As the American northeast swelters in the summer heat, it seems a metaphysical certitude that press representatives will use the occasion to increase hysteria over manmade global warming.Yet, these media minions will completely ignore extreme cold conditions and record snowstorms occurring at the same time in the southern hemisphere.For instance, last week’s freak snows in South Africa went…
Noel Sheppard

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NB Staff

On Troop Withdrawal, Matt Lauer Demands: 'If Not Now, When

Geoffrey Dickens