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Friday Night Fights III: Laura Ingraham Takes on Code Pink Co-Founder
After her stunning knockout of Fox News’s resident liberal Juan Williams last Friday night, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham was looking to defend her title this Friday against Medea Benjamin. For those unfamiliar, Benjamin is the co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink who heckled visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mouri al-Maliki during his address to Congress Wednesday (hat tip and video…
Olbermann Denies Liberal Bias, Insists in Politics He's 'Neutral' and
During an appearance on Friday's Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann acknowledged accusations of liberal bias, but denied they were true, preferring to describe himself politically as "correct" and "neutral," without a "rooting interest" in who wins elections. Ignoring criticism from the MRC that, among other instances of bias during the 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal…
Weekend Captionfest: Journalists Protest Israel
Original Reuters caption: "Pakistani members of the Journalist Association chant slogans during a
protest in Multan July 26, 2006 against Israel's air strikes on Lebanon
and Gaza."
CBS's Storm Ignores Liberal Congressman's Call for 100-Percent Tax on
Reporter echoed Rep. Dennis Kucinich's rhetoric later in the interview.
Walter Cronkite Created Fox News
Jeffrey Lord writes in the American Spectator that the extreme partisanship of CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite is what created Fox News. For decades, CBS led all the others in being the most actvist network, and the sheer brazenness of that activism is what spawned the Fox News Channel.
Physicist Fritjof Capra, in his bestseller The Tao of Physics, writes that "by the very act of…
Air America Continues Ratings Slide
After being plugged relentlessly by the New York Times and other "objective" media outlets, the ratings for Air America continue to drop. Brian Maloney has the details:Like an ice cream cone left in the hot July sun, Air America Radio's ratings are melting in some key (read: liberal) regions of the country.Based on fresh ratings data released Thursday evening, the "progressive" radio network has…