Live Earth: Last in the Ratings

Pam Meister
 

Al Gore Thanks NBC For Its 'Live Earth' Coverage

Geoffrey Dickens
 

ABC Minimizes Bush Court Victory; Speculated on Impeachment for Last R

Last August, a federal judge ruled that it was unconstitutional to monitor overseas conversations with suspected terrorists. On August 18, 2006, ABC’s "Good Morning America" treated the decision as a monumental event. However, Saturday’s GMA greeted the overturning of that decision by a federal appeals judge with a solitary 13 second news brief. In contrast, reporter Jessica Yellin described the…
Scott Whitlock
 

Hillary Forgives Republicans of Their Sins

"Her Methodist faith, Mrs. Clinton says, has guided her as she sought to repair her marriage, forgiven some critics who once vilified her and struggled in the bare-knuckles world of politics to fulfill the biblical commandment to love thy neighbor."
Clay Waters
 

ABC Promotes Kicking the Bottled Water

Jeff Poor
 

NY Times: Hillary Forgives Republicans of Their Sins

Clay Waters
 

Bravo Network: So Long Blue Skies

Michael Lanza
 

Former IPCC Member Slams UN Scientists' Lack of Geologic Knowledge

With each passing day, more and more current and former members of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are stepping out of the shadows to suggest that this group’s alarmist conclusions concerning global warming are more based in myth than science.Another member of this growing list of skeptics is Tom V. Segalstad who was an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC’s third assessment…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chastity Pollutes? NY Times Website Hosts Idea That Social Conservatis

On Sunday, New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt reviewed the new book "More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" by Steven Landsburg, a regular contributor to the liberal site Slate.com. Leonhardt panned the book as too cute and too far afield from the "dismal science" of economics, but the Times book editors gave the Landsburg thesis an excerpt on the Times…
Tim Graham
 

CNN Reporter: 'I Don't Want to Hear About Environmental Causes from Pu

Here's another sign that Al Gore's Live Earth was probably a bust. CNN entertainment correspondent Lola Ogunnaike (pictured at right) gave a great one-liner with regards to the celebrity component of Live Earth: "Frankly, I don't want to hear about environmental causes from the Pussycat Dolls."Co-host John Roberts and Ogunnaike discussed the concert's lackluster ratings in the first hour of…
Matthew Balan
 

Is Live Earth’s Fizzle Beginning of the End of Global Warming Alarmi

The reviews are in for Saturday’s international effort to save the planet from global warming, and the news isn’t good for folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry sycophants.From boring acts, to poor attendance, and folks actually leaving early out of sheer frustration, the concerts appear to have failed miserably.Is this a sign that Al Gore is as poor an event planner as…
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

Can we talk?
NB Staff
 

Slap-Happy Katie Abuses Male Producer, Whines About 'Primal' Couric-Ha

Tim Graham
 

NBC VP Claims Live Earth Doesn't Promote a 'Political Issue

At the end of his Monday "Media Notes" column -- which mostly focused on the Huffington Post, in which former WashPost reporter/new HuffPost hire Tom Edsall acknowledges its audience is "very liberal" -- Howard Kurtz asked NBC about the perception of imbalance created by their massive promotion of the Live Earth concerts:[UPDATED BELOW with Kurtz's discussion on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN…
Tim Graham