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Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper on Friday addressed the fact that Barack Obama's New press secretary, Jay Carney, is the husband of ABC reporter Claire Shipman. Stephanopoulos, discussing the couple, declared, "He and Claire actually appeared many times on This Week when I was the anchor. And, of course, Claire will now not be covering the White House."…

Reporting on the creation of a Senate Tea Party Caucus on Thursday's CBS Evening News, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes declared that while "Conservative crusader Jim Demint, and the freshmen Senators he worked to elect, planted their Tea Party flag," the movement's "assertiveness has caused some heartburn for GOP leaders." As evidence of the supposed indigestion, Cordes cited…

The situation in Egypt has reached a boiling point. There have been reports of protesters storming government buildings in Cairo and setting them on fire. The goverment is cracking down and has virtually shut down the country's Internet access. You can find a live feed of events in Cairo below the fold, courtesy of CNNi.

In picking Mark Whitaker, Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News, as its new Executive Vice President and Managing Editor (TVNewser post), CNN has selected someone with a liberal outlook who presumes not raising taxes can be blamed for an increase in the deficit. On election night last year, Whitaker channeled a liberal argument in favor of hiking taxes, declaring during live NBC News…

NBC's Today show never covered Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen comparing Republicans to Nazis, but on Friday co-anchor Meredith Vieira determined Sarah Palin's mocking of Barack Obama's Winning the Future slogan as the precise moment when the new era of "civility" in Washington, came to an end. After Vieira opened this morning's show announcing: "End of civility? Sarah Palin takes a shot at…

Good Morning America's Robin Roberts conducted yet another fawning interview with Michelle Obama on Friday, offering 11 minutes and two segments to such important topics as whether the First Lady will attend Prince William's wedding. Not exactly grilling Mrs. Obama, the co-anchor mused, "We understand that Prince William and Kate, they sent out the save the date kind of notifications. Have…

Chris Matthews on Thursday attacked Sarah Palin for making what appeared to be a hip double entendre concerning President Obama's oft-used State of the Union slogan "Winning the Future." Even less surprising, the "Hardball" host also went after Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) slavery remarks - for the third night in a row (video follows with transcript and commentary):

At the top of Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge cheered President Obama's recent Q & A on YouTube: "Obama opens up. The President answers YouTube questions on everything from the war in Afghanistan to the Super Bowl. We'll go live to the White House for the latest on his version of the Fireside Chat." While Frankin Roosevelt used his famous radio 'Fireside Chats' to keep the…

So, the Academy Award nominations have been announced, and you know what that means: another article about lack of diversity in Academy Award nominations. CNN.com points out that even Javier Bardem, up for best actor, doesn’t count, because he’s “European.” Making him white – and of course, a monster.

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner recently hosted a dinner for the man who’s holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison. The Hollywood community and their human rights lobby were oddly silent on this event. Could it be because Hope and Change has been placed over all those “Free Tibet” bumper stickers in Hollywood?

"Can you hear the White House communications department giggling right now? Because they're saying this has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." That's how NewsBusters publisher and Media Reseearch Center (MRC) founder Brent Bozell responded on Thursday night's "Hannity" to a montage of mainstream media analysts insisting President Obama is shifting to the center politically. [Embedded…

Over at his digs at Pajamas Media, Ed Driscoll has a new episode of "Silicon Graffiti" posted, in which he examines media attempts to, in the words of New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane, "steer the coverage" - in a single direction, of course. Those efforts manifested most recently in attempts to pin responsibility for the Tucson massacre - in one form or another - on conservative…

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi dug deep into the Juan Williams firing investigation at National Public Radio on Friday, and found that the woman who fired him, senior vice president Ellen Weiss (who later was also dismissed), drew resentment inside NPR for a set of layoffs in 2008, including the man who started her NPR career, Alex Chadwick. He says she laid him off as he was in the…

How much of a liberal and Democratic partisan was new White House press secretary James Carney at Time magazine? Digging through the MRC archives provides a dossier of clues. Here's one. After George W. Bush went jogging with him in 2000, Carney turned around on his fellow Yale alum and "reported" that "Bush tore into McCain like a pit bull let loose in a slaughterhouse." Balance and equanimity…