NBC's Curry: GOP Hopes to Avoid 'Offending Women and Hispanics

NBC's Ann Curry, on Tuesday's "Today" show depicted a political minefield for those Republicans who dare to challenge Sonia Sotomayor during her hearings. The co-anchor, in a 9am half-hour news brief sketched out the arduous task the GOP senators have in front of them as they attempt to avoid "offending women and Hispanics," in their questioning of the Supreme Court nominee.The following was…
Geoffrey Dickens

NBC vs. Goldman Sachs

Catherine Maggio

Left-Wing Blog Talking Points Memo Now Hiring 'News Veterans

At least one media outlet is bucking the field's bleak economic outlook: The left-wing blog Talking Points Memo. On Monday, Noam Cohen reported in the New York Times that TPM has received funding from outside investors that will result in a doubling of staff, and may include some veteran mainstream journalists. The political news Web site Talking Points Memo this weekend completed a round of…
Clay Waters

Networks Barely Cover 'Jane Roe's' Arrest

Sarah Knoploh

CBS’s Smith: Is Sotomayor Confirmation ‘All Theater

While discussing the Sotomayor confirmation hearings with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, CBS Early Show co-host Harry Smith wondered: "Senator Lindsey Graham said, ‘unless you have a meltdown, you're going to get confirmed.’ So is this all theater then, or is this a process that should literally be paid attention to?"Gonzales responded by describing the importance of a Supreme Court…
Kyle Drennen

Sex Toy Advertised During Prime Time -- What's Next

It's hard enough watching television with your kids these days given all the Viagra and Cialis commercials, but are we now going to have to put up with ads for sex toys?Trojan's vibrating fingertip massager for women has been around for over a year, as has the commercial for it.However, I didn't expect it to appear in the middle of CMT's prime time airing of "Field of Dreams" Monday night.Take a…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Sotomayor Hearings Serving as a Distraction for Tax Hikes

BMI adviser Dan Mitchell explains how Dems are using SCOTUS hearings as camouflage for higher taxes to pay for public health care plan.
Jeff Poor

'World News' Charges Goldman Sachs with Making Too Much Profit

ABC segment suggests investment bank took 'too much risk' in effort to show positive returns in recessionary economy.
Jeff Poor

'Hardball' Promotes Ted Kennedy HBO History, But Completely Leaves Out

Tim Graham

CBS’ Rodriguez ‘Proud’ of Jackson Coverage

Maggie Rodriguez wants us to know that she's a real journalist. "If I were to program a show for my viewing pleasure, I would make it all news," she told Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post in a July 13 article. But the host of CBS's "Early Show" also insisted, "I'm not a journalistic snob." Good thing too, because when you work for a network that dedicated 37 percent of its nightly news…
Zoe Ortiz

WaPo Publishes Glowing Article About Incoming AFL-CIO Leader; Ignores

The Washington Post has published a glowing article about likely incoming AFL-CIO president, Richard Trumka (photo), titled "Trumka Hopes to Mend the AFL-CIO." Writer Chris Cillizza asks in the very first sentence of his Monday Fix story, "Can Richard Trumka reunite the labor movement?" Cillizza portrays Trumka as genuinely puzzled over the reason for the big split in the labor movement: With…
P.J. Gladnick

CNN's Analysis, Sotomayor a ‘Cautious and Careful Liberal,’ is Lef

**Video Below the Fold** If you want to see how liberals in the media “do” their thing, nothing has been a better example than the analysis by CNN’s Jeffery Toobin. We’ve highlighted some on-air work of his Sotomayor coverage, but he also has a written piece on CNN.com that is a perfect example of how the left spins rhetoric to legitimize leftist precepts. In his July 13 piece, for instance,…
Warner Todd Huston

ABC Relays Concerns National Security Threatened by Dem Attacks on CIA

On the July 12 World News Sunday, ABC correspondent John Hendren filed a report relaying concerns by a former CIA agent that recent attacks on the CIA has hurt the agency’s morale and will weaken its ability to protect America. Hendren even ran clips of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky accusing the CIA of lying as examples of "harsh accusations"…
Brad Wilmouth