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NBC Begins 'Green Week' With Energy Double Standard; Ironically Favors
On any other day, NBC "Nightly News" would be attacking coal for being a dirty pollutant and advocating reliance on other forms of energy. But on Nov. 15, as it began the first of its "Our Planet" segments for green week, the network used coal power as part of the argument in favor of destroying manmade dams. "This is what the dams harness: the power of the Elwha to generate electricity…
NBC Begins 'Green Week' With Energy Double Standard
Anne Thompson advocates bringing rivers back to 'natural state,' ironically favors coal power in dam tear-down story.
ABC Touts NYT ‘Conservative’ David Brooks to Bash Palin, Features
Good Morning America on Monday began a week of coverage on Sarah Palin’s new book by repeatedly fact checking claims from the Republican and highlighting a attack by the liberals’ favorite "conservative," New York Times columnist David Brooks. Reporter Kate Snow asserted that "even conservatives are on the attack" against Palin. She then played a clip of Brooks, who has previously gone after Rush…
ABC Omits Critics of Obama’s ‘Jarring and Inappropriate’ Bow to
ABC’s Good Morning America finally picked up on the deep bow President Obama performed for the Emperor of Japan over the weekend. Co-host Diane Sawyer ran through how other U.S. Presidents have greeted either Emperor Akhito or his father, the late Emperor Hirohito over the years — some bowing, some not. Sawyer claimed that Americans are “not trained to greet royalty” and “it’s just too confusing…
CBS’s Schieffer: Sarah Palin ‘An Amusement;’ No Political Future
Appearing on Monday’s CBS Early Show to discuss Sarah Palin’s upcoming book tour, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer dismissed the former vice presidential candidate’s political ambitions: “I think she’s going to sell a lot of books. I think she’ll be a great attraction out, you know, as an amusement....But I can’t imagine that she has much future in politics. I really don’t.”Early Show co-host…
Shep Smith Is Objective Because He Agrees With Left
Too often "objectivity in journalism" is code for agreeing with the left. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz demonstrated this sentiment in his profile of Fox News Channel's Shep Smith.Kurtz lauded Smith as an "outspoken newsman at the network defined by high-decibel conservatives, a stance that has earned him respect even from some Fox-hating liberals." But was it really his "newsman" status…
CNN Features Boy Who Won't Say Pledge Till Gays Have Equal Rights
CNN on Monday featured a fifth grade student who is refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance in his classroom until gays and lesbians have equal rights.Not surprisingly, he was treated with far greater respect by the cable news network than Tea Party and town hall meeting protesters were earlier in the year. The boy and his father appeared on CNN's "American Morning," and John Roberts began the…
Fox ‘News Watch’ Focuses on CMI’s Ft. Hood Report
The Culture & Media Institute’s report on network coverage of Major Nidal Hasan and the Ft. Hood murders continues to gain media attention. On Nov. 14, Fox’s “News Watch” program led off with CMI’s findings.“The Culture & Media Institute noticed something about the news coverage,” said host John Scott said of the Ft. Hood shooting. “Until President Obama spoke on Tuesday at a memorial…
Scarborough: Comparing Palin To Howard Dean 'Insult To Dean's Intellig
Joe Scarborough was surely right about one thing . . . when he warned that his pronouncement would "enrage conservatives."The Morning Joe host today proclaimed that comparing Sarah Palin to Howard Dean was an insult . . . to Dean's intelligence.Joe's jab came in response to an analogy Time's Mark Halperin drew between the excitement Palin creates and that drummed up by Dean's presidential…
Palin Regrets – 'Dang It' – Journalists Didn't Get 'Fish-Slimed
Looking at Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, NBC's Andrea Mitchell caught a passage about herself in which Palin recalled that when she invited some reporters to go fishing with her this past July that “I wanted to see Andrea and her colleagues sporting fish-slimed waders, banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud,” but, she regretted, the weather was too good so “dang it…
Levin and Beck Take Second and Third in Amazon's 2009 Bestsellers
Amazon has announced its 2009 best selling books, and Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" and Glenn Beck's "Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government" are number two and three respectively.This will certainly ruin Chris Matthews' day, as the MSNBCer back in September agonized over there being "so much right-wing crap on the best seller list these days."…
Ed Schultz Says Hasan is a Terrorist -- And Blames Bush/Cheney for Ft
Liberal radio host and MSNBC bobblehead Ed Schultz deserves credit -- he's that rare left-winger willing to throw political correctness to the wind and describe accused Ft. Hood killer Nidal Hasan as a terrorist.After finding such clarity unsettling, however, Schultz quickly reverts to form.Here's what Schultz told his radio listeners on Thursday (click here for audio) -- SCHULTZ: We've gotta…
