Stimulus Bill Attempts to Impose Once-Moribund 'Net Neutrality': CNet

If you haven't figured it out yet, the fact that lawmakers in Washington who voted for the mislabeled "stimulus" bill championed by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid did so without reading it, let alone understanding it, means that in the coming weeks (or months?) we'll be learning about all manner of items in the legislation that "nobody" knew about. But that didn't stop House and…
Tom Blumer

Conservatives Need Not Apply To Shuster's New Blog Segment

So much for any pretense of balance. Looks like David Shuster has taken a page from Keith Olbermann's playbook: play exclusively to your crowd; exclude any alternative voices.Announcing this evening a new regular feature focusing on the blogosphere on his 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue show, Shuster made it clear that conservatives need not apply.DAVID SHUSTER: Every day at this time, we're going to…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC Giddy Over 'Presidential Whirlwind' & 'Remarkable' Photos of Obama

Get Diane Sawyer together with George Stephanopoulos on World News and they can't contain their giddiness over President Obama. Back on Friday, January 23, when Sawyer last anchored, Stephanopoulos hailed Obama's first three days as “disciplined and strategic,” thus enabling “sweeping change,” while Sawyer gushed over “change...at warp speed.” Monday night, Sawyer returned to the anchor chair…
Brent Baker

CBS Plugs Moderate Republicans Voting with Obama

On Saturday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Kimberly Dozier filed a report profiling moderate Republican Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both from Maine, in light of their vote in favor of President Obama's economic plan, and relayed their criticisms that other Republicans should show more willingness to "compromise." Dozier also likened Collins to another former Republican Senator…
Brad Wilmouth

Rick Sanchez, CNN's 'Chief Twit

Earlier today, medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen accidentally insulted colleague Rick "I play it down the middle" Sanchez as "CNN's chief twit" for his frequent use of microblogging application Twitter.As veteran users of the service know, "tweep" is the preferred term to refer to registered users of Twitter. Likewise, a posting to one's Twitter account is often referred to as a "tweet."…
Ken Shepherd

Diane Sawyer and 20/20 Suggest PepsiCo Responsible for Tooth Loss

In special on poverty in the Appalachians, the native Kentuckian blames soda for widespread dental problems.
Edward Schatz

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Recalls Hillary's Heroic, Yet Giggly China Trip

Tim Graham

Here Come the Brides: CNN Promotes a Social Engineering Soap Opera

In a bizarre leap of logic, CNN's John Roberts proposed same-sex marriage as "perhaps another path [that] needs to be taken" in response to high divorce rates. Roberts' comment during the Feb. 16 "American Morning." followed a segment in which entertainment correspondent Lola Ogunnaike promoted daytime television's first lesbian wedding, which is scheduled to air this week on ABC's "All My…
Colleen Raezler

Lack of Business Acumen Among House Finance Dems Too Much Even for Lef

Jack Coleman

CEO Vilifies Wal-Mart as 'Antichrist' on 'Cavuto on Business

DC Nelson Asset Management CEO David Nelson depicts Wal-Mart as an exploitive 'parasite;' accuses company of attacking 'forbidden prey.'
Lauren O'Reilly

ABC Shortchanges Christians on Sunday

ABC World News Sunday gave face time to supporters of divisive spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, but brushed over those “Christians” who say Tolle is ‘dangerous.’”The Feb. 15th broadcast of ABC’s Sunday evening news featured Eckhart Tolle, a widely touted spiritual leader to stars such as Cher and Paris Hilton. While his books have, with Oprah’s help, sold more than 10 million copies, many…
Erin R. Brown

'The International' Shoots at Banking Industry, Scores $10 Million Ope

With so much populist outrage at bankers and other corporate types these days, Hollywood is predictably trying to capitalize on it (TNT's "Leverage" is just one example.) "The International," from Relativity Media was just the latest to hit theaters with its Feb. 13 opening. In the slow-moving thriller "The International," the executives of the fictional International Bank of Business and…
Julia A. Seymour

Ifill & Carlson on HuffPost Question to Obama: 'Perfectly Reasonable

During a segment on the “Reliable Sources” hour of CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, PBS’s Gwen Ifill and Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson agreed that it was fine for President Obama to call on Sam Stein of the Huffington Post at his first press conference, and that the correspondent’s left-wing question on a proposed “truth committee” investigation into the Bush administration was “perfectly…
Matthew Balan

Flashback: In 2004, Donaldson Yukked It Up at MRC's 'DisHonors Awards

After 41 years with ABC News, next week Sam Donaldson will retire from the network, though he will continue to appear monthly on This Week, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported Monday. Often seen by conservatives as the embodiment of liberal media bias -- especially during the Reagan years -- Donaldson was an open-minded guy who respected conservatives and was willing to make fun of…
Brent Baker