ABC and NBC Punt on News Two Hillary E-Mails Are 'Top Secret'

On Tuesday night, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News ignored a new development in the growing Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal with news just prior to the newscasts that two of Clinton’s e-mails were found to have been “top secret” by the intelligence community’s inspector general. Meanwhile, the CBS Evening News was only able to scour together a 27-second news brief on the story while…
Curtis Houck
August 11th, 2015 9:07 PM

Unauthorized Immigrants Take Government Posts, Telemundo Cheers

If there was ever any doubt about whether unauthorized immigrants take positions away from U.S. citizens, it was just dispelled when the City Council of Huntington Park, California decided to appoint two unauthorized immigrants to serve on two separate city commissions.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
August 11th, 2015 6:07 PM

NYT Hates 'Cait,' Jenner's 'Infuriatingly Heartless' View of Welfare

It's fine for a biological man to self-identify as a woman, but as a conservative? That's taking things a bit too far for liberal outlets. Add the New York Times to the long list of those offended by the right-leaning politics of the former Bruce Jenner, who now identifies as a female Caitlyn. The Times' activism has trickled down in heavy-handed fashion to the Artsbeat section, which is running…
Clay Waters
August 11th, 2015 5:45 PM

Only CBS Evening News Noted Close of Iranian Show Trial

Of the Big Three evening newscasts last night, only the CBS Evening News devoted a brief story to the close of the show trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
Ken Shepherd
August 11th, 2015 5:32 PM

MSNBC's NewsNation: The Police Have Weaponized Blackness

In her show NewsNation, MSNBC host Tamron Hall continued the day’s one-sided coverage by hosting, along with others, “Black Lives Matter” activists Deray McKesson and Marissa Johnson in separate full-length segments. Both segments blasted America’s law enforcement officers and labeled America as a generally anti-black society.
Spencer Raley
August 11th, 2015 4:51 PM

MSNBC: ‘Opportunities’ for Hillary With GOP in ‘Complete Chaos’

On MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Tuesday, The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty saw a big advantage for Hillary Clinton in the midst of the Republican primary campaign: “But the fact is this complete chaos on the Republican side is presenting a lot of opportunities for Hillary Clinton, not only to, again, paint them as extremists, but also to actually put some policy points on the board, which…
Kyle Drennen
August 11th, 2015 3:42 PM

Halperin & Heilemann Hail: 'Fiery' Hillary Has Found Her 'Passion!'

Bloomberg’s political team of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann seem excited that Hillary Clinton has finally found her “passion” in this campaign. Invited on Monday’s edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show to discuss the campaign, the With All Due Respect hosts hailed that Marco Rubio’s stance on abortion had shaken Clinton out of her stupor. John Heilemann began the Hillary hype: “You saw her today…
Geoffrey Dickens
August 11th, 2015 3:40 PM

AP, Reuters Ignore Likely Impact of Bloated Inventories on Growth

Two wire service dispatches covering the government's June Wholesale Sales and Inventories release either glossed over or completely ignored what others are saying about the report's impact on near-term economic growth. The final sentence of an unbylined Reuters report vaguely referred to future impact by indicating that current inventory balances, which are bloated by historical standards, "…
Tom Blumer
August 11th, 2015 3:31 PM

Vice Investigates: Why Do Women Have Sex with Animals?

After glorifying armpit-hair-dying women and transgendered teens, what taboo will the media try to break next? Bestiality, if Vice has any say in the matter. "I mean, what's so wrong about desiring a reindeer?" asks writer Mish Way in her article "Animal Urges: Woman and Bestiality." Way admitted she was initially confounded at the idea of women having sex with animals. “Why would anyone want to…
Kristine Marsh
August 11th, 2015 3:18 PM

MSNBC.com: O'Malley Slams DNC's Debate Rules As Legally Dubious

While Chris Matthews's Hardball program thus far has failed to cover Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley's critiques of the DNC's debate schedule and its ground rules, the Lean Forward network's website today has a front page article, "Martin O’Malley raises legal questions with Democratic debate plan" addressing the controversy.
Ken Shepherd
August 11th, 2015 3:10 PM

CNN's Chris Cuomo Pushes Donald Trump to Support Abortion

For the second time in less than a week, CNN's Chris Cuomo on Tuesday pushed a Republican presidential candidate to be more supportive of abortion. This time, it was Donald Trump. The New Day anchor lectured the businessman: "...Many women believe you protect them by protecting their right to choose and that's something that Planned Parenthood allows." 
Scott Whitlock
August 11th, 2015 2:07 PM

NBC Insider: Chelsea Clinton Tops NBC’s Worst Decisions

NBC’s relationship with the Clintons hasn’t always been cushy. For Vanity Fair’s September issue, contributing editor Evgenia Peretz profiled Chelsea Clinton’s life in a piece entitled, “A Clinton to the Core.” In it, Peretz researched Chelsea’s background as an NBC special correspondent by interviewing an NBC veteran as well as an NBC insider, who dubbed Chelsea as NBC’s “highest-paid ghost”…
Katie Yoder
August 11th, 2015 1:08 PM

Readers School Politico Writer on Real Reason for Sanders BLM Problem

Sigh! Once again we are going to have to apply the Koch brothers test when it comes to journalists covering "grass-roots" protests. Here's how it goes: if the Koch brothers were financing an organization that was loudly protesting against candidates opposed by the Koch brothers, wouldn't that fact be highlighted in any story about such protests? Therefore, how can Politico's Daniel Strauss write…
P.J. Gladnick
August 11th, 2015 12:51 PM

Wash Post’s Gearan: GOP Debate ‘Played Into Hands’ of Hillary Clinton

On MSNBC’s The Rundown on Tuesday, fill-in host Frances Rivera touted Hillary Clinton slamming Florida Senator Marco Rubio for having “offensive and troubling” views on abortion and asked The Washington Post’s Anne Gearan: “So when you hear Hillary Clinton talk about that...how is this new war on women narrative, if that's what it's going to be called, play into Hillary Clinton's hands?”
Kyle Drennen
August 11th, 2015 12:10 PM