YouTube or ABC? Internet Star's Question the Same as Barbara Walters
All three networks on Friday morning promoted Barack Obama's "interesting," "unconventional" interviews with YouTube personalities, including one who is famous for taking a bath in milk and Fruit Loops. One question was very similar a query from ABC journalist Barbara Walters in 2011.
January 23rd, 2015 12:10 PM
200,000 March for Life – Networks Give Them 15 Seconds
On Jan 22, 200,000 people descended on Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life, commemorating the 57 million babies destroyed since 1973’s Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. Of the three broadcast networks, only CBS mentioned the 2015 March for Life, allotting it just 15 seconds. That’s one second for every 13,000 people who put work and school aside and traveled from as far away as…
January 23rd, 2015 11:37 AM
Univision’s Jorge Ramos Goes 'Full Gutierrez'
There was much outrage and strong reaction upon release of the 2016 GOP presidential debate schedule and its exclusion of Univision. However, anchor Jorge Ramos’ recent concurrent articles on immigration prove the GOP’s point precisely, and render any further debate on the matter to little more than sound and fury that signifies nothing.
January 23rd, 2015 11:12 AM
WashPost Buries Large March of 'Abortion Opponents'
On December 28 and 29, The Washington Post highlighted a tiny rally of leftists opposing the name of the Washington Redskins – on the front page of the Metro section twice – both before and after the march, which turned out only about 100 activists.
On Friday, after the March for Life brought tens of thousands of pro-life activists to Capitol Hill, the Post buried it on A-6. The headline skipped…
January 23rd, 2015 10:06 AM
Not News: Fewer Than 0.5% Live in Fully Recovered Counties
In his State of the Union address — perhaps, based on the recommendations for government involvement and control he made therein, better described as his Statist of the Union address — President Obama referenced the "growing" U.S. economy at least three times, but "recovery" only once. Specifically, he claimed that "thanks to a growing economy, the recovery is touching more and more lives."
The…
January 23rd, 2015 9:44 AM
Steve Rattner: Silver's 100G+ Assembly Pay Wasn't 'Full-Time' Salary
On today's Morning Joe, commenting on the arrest of Dem NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges, Rattner claimed that "they don't pay these guys full-time salaries. They pay them, I think, $112,000 a year."
January 23rd, 2015 8:18 AM
As Homelessness Rises in Seattle and Elsewhere, National Press Snoozes
A week ago, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, a Democrat, called homelessness in his city and the rest of King County a "full-blown crisis."
Based on the numbers presented in coverage of the area's situation, we can certainly add the Emerald City to the list of areas where homelessness has been on the rise. Odds are that many readers here didn't know that, because the national press hardly ever pays…
January 22nd, 2015 11:53 PM
Nets Spend 2 Mins on Fall of Yemen's Gov't, But 11 Mins on Deflategate
On Thursday night, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC each covered the news that the United States-backed government in Yemen had fallen after rebels stormed the capital city of Sana’a and surrounded the presidential palace on Tuesday.
While the networks gave this story airtime, they only gave it to the tune of one minute and 59 seconds and avoided any mention of how President Obama had, just…
January 22nd, 2015 11:01 PM
Will Media Show Wild Pro-Abortion Protestors Blocking Pro-Life March?
Left-wing activists arrested, say poor woman 'should get a f---ing abortion.'
It’s hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers versus 75 pro-abortion protesters – but whose message will the abortion-fawning media choose to focus on?
Protesters calling for abortion on demand blocked the pathway of the Washington, D.C. 42ndannual March for Life on January 22. In front of the Supreme Court, they yelled…
January 22nd, 2015 10:00 PM
Salon: Obama’s SOTU Message Was ‘Bye-Bye, Reagan Conservatism’
Elias Isquith contends that “after eight years of George W. Bush,” America “was in such rotten shape that Obama had little time to do more than stave off the next crisis,” but that by this past Tuesday night, favorable economic developments gave Obama “an opportunity to boast of changing the ‘trajectory’ of the country like few presidents before him and none since Ronald Reagan.”
January 22nd, 2015 9:46 PM
Matthews Whines of Boehner/Netanyahu 'Sabotage' of Obama Iran Policy
In a segment on his January 22 Hardball program, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews made perfectly clear his disdain for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and for House Speaker John Boehner for inviting him to address a joint session of Congress on March 3.
January 22nd, 2015 9:31 PM
Obama Apparently Unaware of Past Mockery by Comedian Interviewing Him
Barack Obama chose three YouTube stars to interview him at the White House following his State of the Union Address. One of those chosen was comedian Glozell Green. What makes this choice especially hilarious is that the White House vetters were apparently unawaware that Glozell performed some dead on mockery of faithful Obama supporters as well as Obama programs in the past.
January 22nd, 2015 9:19 PM
MSNBC's Melvin to Roe Attorney: 'I Do Appreciate You'
When a cable-news host concludes an interview, it's customary to thank his or her guest by saying something along the lines of "I appreciate you being here" or "Thank you for your time."
But when MSNBC fill-in host Craig Melvin wrapped his January 22 Reid Report interview with Sarah Weddington, the pro-abortion rights counsel for "Jane Roe" in 1973, he not only thanked the former Texas state…
January 22nd, 2015 6:58 PM
ABC’s David Muir Continues Network Fawning Over Clinton Baby
On Wednesday night, ABC’s World News Tonight and anchor David Muir restarted the media promotion of Chelsea Clinton’s new baby with Bill and Hillary Clinton as grandparents by spending 24 seconds informing viewers of the competition between Bill and Hillary for “who gets to read to Charlotte.”
Muir also took particular interest in how Hillary spends her time with the newest member of the Clinton…
January 22nd, 2015 5:44 PM