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WashPost's Dramatic Bias By Omission on Behalf of Rick Kaplan, Bill Ma
Does the Washington Post practice bias by omission out of sensitivity to fellow liberals? Open to Friday's Style section, and the bias by omission (and delay) is, at least to a conservative, utterly mind-boggling. As Howard Kurtz covered the story of Rick Kaplan arriving at what seems like his 26th appointment at the top of a liberal network or show, when did Kurtz explain that then-ABC producer…
Rundown of New 'CBS Evening News' Executive Producer Kaplan's Clinton
As noted Thursday morning on NewsBusters, CBS News has hired Rick Kaplan, a former Executive Producer of ABC's World News Tonight and Nightline who later ran both CNN and MSNBC, to serve as Executive Producer of the ratings-challenged CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. As documented in a Thursday MRC CyberAlert posting reprinted here, Kaplan has had a long record of friendly relations with…
The Numbers on Moral Decline
Americans look into their television sets, and are getting a high-definition dose of Hollywood's take on values. Fully 68 percent of Americans in the survey said the media are having a detrimental effect on moral values in America.
CNN's John Roberts Defends His 'Very Narrowly Sliced' Cheney Attack Pi
CNN put together a story featuring reporter John Roberts that absolutely hammered Vice President Cheney on Wednesday night’s Paula Zahn Now, concluding with an anonymous Republican suggesting the party needed an "exorcism" to rid itself of all its missteps and corruption.When the Laura Ingraham show played clips, Ingraham suggested reporter John Roberts should call in – and he did. Roberts…
MSNBC and CNN Jump to Showcase Time Mag Cover with Cheney Under Dark C
Time magazine's cover story image as reality? Displaying a mini-instance of pack journalism, MSNBC and CNN shows on Thursday afternoon and night pounced on Time magazine's cover story, “The Verdict on Cheney” beside a picture of Cheney under some dark clouds, as evidence Cheney's influence is declining in the White House in the wake of the Scooter Libby verdict. It may be, but the graphics on a…
Reuters Counts 9/11 Hijackers as 9/11 Victims
From the March 8 edition of James Taranto's Best of the Web. (H/t: Nathan Burchfiel):Another Man's Victim?Reuters has a cute little human interest story about funny people from Vermont holding "town meetings" where they call for President Bush's impeachment. What caught our eye was not the darling little Vermonters, though, but something in this paragraph:
Horror Story-time: Networks Bash Credit Cards
NBC had some "horror stories" to share with its audience on March 7, according to "Nightly News" anchor Campbell Brown. Brown introduced the report by Lisa Myers that told the story of Wesley Wannemacher, a man who's $3,200 credit card debt ballooned to $10,700 after interest and penalties.Wannemacher's plight also featured prominently in similar segments on ABC "World News with Charles Gibson"…
Networks Hype Credit Companies Abuse
Evening newscasts use 'horror stories' but leave out personal responsibility.
Shock: 'Less Regulation' Praised by CBS
"Dozens of American companies have come here to London and the alternate investment market where less regulation means raising capital is cheaper and easier," declared reporter Sheila MacVicar.The atypical remark was made in a segment of "Global Warming, Cool Solutions" during the March 7 CBS "Evening News."MacVicar's words are less surprising when you know that the companies in the CBS story are…