Nets: Specter 'Driven Out' of GOP by 'Right Wing' and 'Fringe of Party

The evening newscasts on Tuesday night attributed Senator Arlen Specter's motivation for changing parties to how he realized he wouldn't win the Republican primary in Pennsylvania, but they also, just as they did with Senator Jim Jeffords in 2001, eagerly relayed -- without any challenge -- Specter's spin that, in the words of the TV journalists, he “had been driven out by the right-wing of the…
Brent Baker
 

As Specter Switches, the Ira Einhorn Saga Deserves Wider Mention

Ira who?The establishment media is saying almost nothing about the man who co-founded Earth Day, and who also happens to be in jail for life for murder. Arlen Specter's involvement with the Ira Einhorn case is an important event in the party-switching Senator's career that curious readers would want to know about -- if the establishment media cared to note it.You know they would be bringing out…
Tom Blumer
 

Media Hails Senate Confirmation of Health Secretary to Combat Swine Fl

Media ignores Homeland Security's lead role responding to virus, maintains Sebelius needed combat it.
Iris Somberg
 

A Hundred Days of Love

Three months have made zero difference in the major media's ardor.
L. Brent Bozell III
 

'Torturing' Terrorists for National Security? Bad. Torturing Teenagers

The networks are shocked about dubious 'torture' for security information but refuse to discuss why Hollywood promotes its use.
Colleen Raezler
 

Bozell Column: A Hundred Days of Love

Brent Bozell
 

LAT Minimizes Child Abuse, More Bothered By 'Conservatives' Exposing I

On Sunday (4/26/09), the Los Angeles Times finally got around to looking into the issue of Planned Parenthood workers caught on hidden camera appearing to violate the law. Workers at numerous clinics around the country appear to be illegally advising girls they believe to be underage to conceal statutory rape. The Times profiled the hero of these undercover busts, Lila Rose, a 20-year-old student…
Dave Pierre
 

CNN on Specter Switch: GOP 'Far to the Right;' Democrats in 'Center

During the first hour and a half following Senator Arlen Specter’s announcement that he was switching from the Republican Party to the Democratic, CNN pushed the “big message” behind the defection, that “the Republican Party has moved so far to the right, that it is making itself uncompetitive in significant parts of the country, like the Northeast,” as the network’s senior political analyst Bill…
Matthew Balan
 

Morning Shows, NYT, USA Today Ignore Mary Ann Glendon/Notre Dame Devel

Imagine that former Vice President Dick Cheney was set to be honored next month at a Catholic university's commencement ceremony and news came down that another person to be honored at the same ceremony with a different award declined the honor, stating that she felt it inappropriate for the university to honor a man who believes in and furthered the use of torture by condoning waterboarding of…
Ken Shepherd
 

N.Y. Times on Hezbollah: Terrorists or 'Resilient Pragmatists

Tim Graham
 

CNN’s Sanchez on the Concept of Freedom in Specter Aftermath: 'What

Leave it to CNN host Rick Sanchez to unintentionally give us a moment of comedy in an afternoon cable news broadcast. On "CNN Newsroom" on April 28, Sanchez interviewed Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., about the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter, Pa., from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party. He asked the senator from South Carolina if Specter was correct in his analysis that the conservative…
Jeff Poor
 

Newspaper Circs: Another Serious Drop; NYT's Small Decline a Short-Ter

From Editor & Publisher yesterday (bold is mine):The Audit Bureau of Circulations released this morning the spring figures for the six months ending March 31, 2009, showing that the largest metros continue to shed daily and Sunday circulation -- now at a record rate.According to ABC, for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, compared with the…
Tom Blumer
 

WND: U.S. Regulatory Czar Nominee Wanted Net 'Fairness Doctrine

Here's Hoping - or - Wishful Thinking There are those who hang their First Amendment hats on President Barack Obama's statement that he isn't for reinstating the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine.  These people are ignoring ever mounting examples of the censorious intent of this Administration on all things information.They…
Seton Motley
 

Environmentalism Defines Virtue Down

Matt Philbin, managing editor of the Culture and Media Institute and the Business and Media Institute, wrote the following op-ed: Forget courage, thrift, fidelity or industry. Generosity? Humility? Fortitude? Honesty? Those are so 19th Century. According to Master Card, today's virtue resides in being eco-conscious. The latest in MasterCard's successful "priceless" series of ads features a…
Colleen Raezler