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ABC Offers Skeptical Take on Obama's Stimulus Claims; CBS, NBC Uncriti
On Friday's "Good Morning America," ABC White House correspondent Jake Tapper provided a skeptical, challenging analysis of the Obama administration's claims about the economic stimulus bill. NBC's "Today" and CBS's "Early Show" on Thursday simply regurgitated White House statements that the "economy is looking much healthier these days" and that the President is "taking credit for writing the…
CBS’s Rodriguez: Catholic Church Too ‘Stringent,’ Should Be ‘M
While reporting on disgraced priest Alberto Cutie leaving the Catholic Church in the wake of a sex scandal, on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked CBS News analyst Father Thomas Williams about the Church’s celibacy rule: "It seems to me that the Catholic Church, at least in south Florida, is not necessarily being introspective and considering whether Father Cutie and others…
'Nightly News' Praises 'Hope,' Jobs 'Saved or Created' by Stimulus
NBC correspondent Lisa Myers touts how $8.5-million stimulus 'bridge-to-the-middle-of-nowhere' save a Missouri community.
Unprofessionalism at the Boston Herald: White Men Attacked
Margery Eagan of the Boston Herald has done it again. She's unleashed her deathless prose filled with soaring rhetoric and high concepts all revealing her infinite sagacity. OK, that was just sarcasm. In truth, Eagan has given us another example of the sort of low-end, guttural, sputterings that we have become so used to seeing drip like sour milk from her pen. Her latest Boston Herald piece is a…
WH Press Secretary Goes After British Press; Can Clintonian Conspiracy
Those of us seeking truth in reporting, especially the inconvenient truths about a Democratic presidential administration, are re-learning the lessons of the Clinton Era: First, that the "newspapers of record," the Associated Press, and the major TV networks (except Fox) are usually the last places you want to go to learn what's really going on, and the first place to visit if you want a…
Big Gay Chip, Matchbox-Sized Argument
Singer Rob Thomas fails to get his facts straight in advocating same-sex marriage.
Love Dies in a TV Bubble
Family unity or sanity be damned. TLC has a hit on its hands with 'Jon and Kate Plus 8.'
Cloaked as 'Both Sides,' Nets Push 'Abortion Rights' Advocates' Concer
NBC and ABC on Thursday night framed stories around concerns of “abortion rights” advocates who want proof Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is on their side, but both cloaked their pieces around the proposition “both sides” of the debate are equally worried. With “Where Does She Stand?” as the on-screen heading, as if there is genuine belief Obama would have selected the judge without…
Media Myth: Networks Ignore Trillion-Dollar Price Tag of Climate Cap B
Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill leaves committee while ABC, CBS, NBC remain silent.
Media Myth: Networks Ignore Trillion-Dollar Price Tag of Climate Cap B
Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill leaves committee while ABC, CBS, NBC remain silent.
NYT: Sonia Sotomayor Has a 'Compelling Life Story' -- Clarence Thomas
Judge Sonia Sotomayor and Judge Clarence Thomas both had compelling life stories when they were nominated for the Supreme Court. But only Sotomayor's story has been celebrated that way by the New York Times. Sotomayor's rise from a housing project in the East Bronx to Supreme Court nominee was "a compelling life story" in Thursday's lead article by Peter Baker and Adam Nagourney. And Scott Shane…
CNN Panel Overwhelmingly Argues in Favor of Same-Sex 'Marriage
CNN’s Roland Martin on Wednesday’s “No Bias, No Bull” program featured another panel which leaned overwhelmingly to the left, during a discussion about the California Supreme Court upholding Proposition 8. Four of the five participants -- CNN correspondent Erica Hill, Lisa Bloom of TruTv, New York Observer columnist Steve Kornacki, and the Reverend Byron Williams of Resurrection Community Church…