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Daily Beast Reports Jihadists Are Flocking to Libya; Will Networks Rep
The Daily Beast on Tuesday drew attention to an important story that has been under-reported by the major broadcast networks. According to an article written by Eli Lake, Libya has become a hub for al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists since the September 2012 Benghazi attacks. This information came from various “current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials.”
Lake summarized the situation in…
May 7th, 2014 11:30 AM
The Burying of a Scandal: TV News Hides the Facts on the IRS’s Targe
Summary: After a partisan report last June absurdly suggested that progressive groups were just as likely to be scrutinized as conservative ones, ABC, CBS and NBC essentially abandoned their coverage of the IRS targeting scandal which broke one year ago this week. After producing 136 stories on their morning and evening news show during the first seven weeks of the scandal, broadcast news…
May 7th, 2014 11:14 AM
NPR Asks if Allowing Prayer at Government Meetings Is ‘Essentially O
On Monday May 5, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that government meetings can include an opening prayer without violating the United States Constitution and NPR did its best to spin the ruling as severely troubling for religious minorities.
On Monday’s All Things Considered program, reporter Carrie Johnson asked“The question before the Supreme Court, whether Greece did enough to…
May 7th, 2014 10:36 AM
Liberal Media Embrace ‘Rock Star’ Far-Left Economist Piketty
Thomas Piketty is enjoying his moment in the sun. The French economist who has spent his career studying income inequality, recently published “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” The book rose to the top of the Amazon best-seller list on April 22.
CBSNews.com said it got there “thanks to rave reviews and positive word of mouth.” “Beyond that, however, the book has something else going for…
May 7th, 2014 9:29 AM
WashPost Compares The Prospect of Gay Player Going Undrafted to Dolphi
The front of Wednesday’s Washington Post sports section worries “If Michael Sam goes undrafted, NFL might have a public-relations problem on its hands.” Sam announcing his homosexuality apparently makes it mandatory that he be drafted this week. That's a little insincere. The media are promising they'll give the NFL a PR problem is Sam goes undrafted.
For example, Post reporter Kent Babb…
May 7th, 2014 8:03 AM
WaPo's Costa: Boehner 'Swatted Away' Primary Opposition, Which Got a L
Robert Costa's disdain for Tea Party-sympathetic conservatives was quite evident tonight in his coverage of Republican House Speaker John Boehner's primary victory at the Washington Post. Costa, a former writer at National Review, even insulted the noble pursuits of justice and the truth regarding Benghazi and the IRS's targeting of conservative and other groups by calling them "red meat for…
May 7th, 2014 1:14 AM
CBS Champions Elizabeth Warren's New Student Loan Bill; Ignores Plan t
Tuesday's CBS Evening News ran a mushy feature on Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's liberal plan to let Americans refinance their student loans by hiking taxes on the wealthy.
Nowhere did CBS explain that Warren would pay for the refinancing through tax hikes. What also went unreported is that Warren's bill is a Democratic ploy to garner the youth vote in an election year. The network…
May 6th, 2014 11:10 PM
Polls Show ObamaCare Not Getting More Popular, Despite Their Happy Enr
During the past two months, most of what we've heard about the Affordable Care Act was the administration's announcement on March 31 that the target total of more than 7 million people had signed up for ObamaCare, and by May 1, that figure had grown to 8 million enrollees.
However, four polls were released during the past week that resulted in the same message: ObamaCare isn't getting any…
May 6th, 2014 10:27 PM
Column: Hollywood's Sexual Predator Problem Explodes
Hollywood is sick, sick, sick. Behind its curtain of holier-than-thou progressivism, the entertainment world's top A-list stars have engaged in the most depraved sexual abuse against vulnerable children and teens, according to a growing number of victims. After years of cover-up, the institutional scandal is exploding. Finally.
The latest alleged atrocities involve "X-Men" director Bryan…
May 6th, 2014 10:05 PM
Networks Tout White House Report on Global Warming; Hype the Perils of
The broadcast networks all took a climate change study released by the White House and ran with it on Tuesday evening, advancing the administration's narrative by hyping the threats of climate change while barely quoting any critics. ABC's coverage was so soft that correspondent Ginger Zee bragged like a groupie that President Obama asked a question of her: "And then something interesting…
May 6th, 2014 9:48 PM
NewsBusted: Dude, What Difference Does 92.5 Million Make
"A record 92.5 million Americans are not working. And that doesn’t even include the thousands of journalists not working on reporting all the relevant facts about Benghazi."
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May 6th, 2014 6:35 PM
My Granny's Advice for America (Part
A year ago, I wrote a two-part series titled "My Mom's Advice for America." There's no better time than now — between my mother's 93rd birthday (May 4) and Mother's Day (May 11) — to talk about her mother's advice, which my mother recorded in her autobiography, "Acts of Kindness: My Story."
Last week, I started by echoing what my mom said about my grandmother's family values. Both of their…
May 6th, 2014 6:35 PM
CBS Features Lynne Cheney to Talk James Madison, But Hectors on Hillar
The hosts of CBS This Morning on Tuesday featured Lynne Cheney to talk about her new book on James Madison. However, predictably, the topics drifted towards a grilling on gay marriage and her daughters' public spat over the subject. Additionally, Norah O'Donnell rather obviously quizzed Cheney on whether being a Secretary of State, like Madison, would still be a good path for the president in…
May 6th, 2014 5:46 PM
Irate Lady Gaga Fans Get WaPo Front Page; Angry Vets Calling for Shins
"The nation’s largest veterans group called Monday for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and two top administrators due over alleged issues with quality of care and cover-ups at some VA medical centers," staff writer Josh Hicks reported in the May 6 edition of the Washington Post. "His patriotism and sacrifice for this nation are above reproach....However, his record…
May 6th, 2014 4:30 PM