NAACP’s Double Standard Concerning Don Imus and Isaiah Washington Fi
June 14th, 2007 6:55 PM
The Associated Press reported Thursday that the executive director of the NAACP’s Hollywood bureau is displeased with “Grey’s Anatomy” star Isaiah Washington being fired for making anti-gay slurs.Yet, the NAACP was strongly in favor of Don Imus being terminated by CBS and MSNBC in April for his statements concerning the Rutgers women’s basketball team.Double standard? You be the judge.This is…
ABC Gives Michael Moore a Platform to Tout ‘Artistic Freedom’ of C
June 14th, 2007 4:39 PM
Filmmaker Michael Moore’s appearance on Wednesday’s edition of "Nightline" wrapped up a two day, two show tour of various ABC programs. Between "Nightline and "Good Morning America," the network gave the outspoken leftist almost 21 and a half minutes of air time to promote his new health care documentary, "Sicko." In addition to looking at the softer side of Moore and asking about his faith, co-…
Is ABC’s ‘The View’ Anti-Catholic
June 13th, 2007 3:22 PM
An interesting discussion ensued on Tuesday’s “Scarborough Country” surrounding ABC’s “The View” and some of the anti-Catholic positions taken by the various co-hosts.MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, sitting in for Joe Scarborough, had Catholic League president Bill Donohue on to discuss his ad placed in Tuesday’s New York Times complaining about the behavior of folks like Rosie O’Donnell and…
Masochistic ABC Touts Moore Attack: ‘Media Is Complicit’ in Troop
June 13th, 2007 12:40 PM
Does "Good Morning America" have a masochistic streak? On Wednesday, GMA host Chris Cuomo allowed liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to claim that due to the failure of journalists in challenging President Bush’s claims about pre-war Iraq intelligence, ABC and other networks are "complicit" in the deaths of American soldiers: Video (2:22): Real (1.73 MB) or Windows (1.46 MB), plus MP3 audio (686 kB)
Nets Ignore 20th Anniversary of President Reagan’s 'Tear Down This W
June 13th, 2007 12:16 AM
Was it the most important speech of President Reagan’s life? Who knows? But, on the 20th anniversary of the moment many historians believe signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War, none of the broadcast evening news programs bothered to even mention it.Not one.Instead of covering the anniversary of President Reagan’s demands in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany, for…
'Today' Tags W's Warm Welcome in Eastern Europe 'Over the Top
June 11th, 2007 7:54 AM
Can you remember the last time you heard "Today" or other MSM outlets describe, in terms such as "over the top," rabid anti-Bush protests by the likes of the Cindy Sheehan crowd, the Code Pink girls, or the folks pictured below ? Neither can I. Conversely, when Bill Clinton receives enthusiastic receptions overseas, the MSM breaks out the "rock-star" analogies, with no sarcasm in sight.But let…
Katie Couric Contradicts College Commencement Address Four Days Later
June 10th, 2007 1:42 PM
Are you sick and tired of Paris Hilton and all the attention given to this wealthy debutant when there are so many more important issues facing the nation?Well, if so, you’re in good company, for in a commencement address at Williams College last Sunday, CBS “Evening News” anchor Katie Couric accurately stated that this “fluff…can rot your mind and distort your values.”Yet, just four days later,…
Media Miss Mark Concerning President Bush and the G-8's Climate Change
June 9th, 2007 1:40 PM
On Thursday, a NewsBusters headline asked “G-8 Statement Regarding Climate Change: Will Media Use It to Bash Bush?”The answer: Most definitely.From print to television, the formal declaration published by the group of eight most developed nations emanating from their summit in Germany was depicted as a winner for the host country’s chancellor Angela Merkel, while George W. Bush was the big meanie…
Left-Wing Voices Fuel ABC's MPG Report
June 8th, 2007 5:13 PM
While past ABC reports have mourned the hardship facing the American auto industry, ABC aired liberal support for higher fuel efficiency standards that would make competition more difficult and manufacturing more expensive. But reporter Dean Reynolds gave almost no time to the auto industry in his June 7 “World News with Charles Gibson” story. Reynolds cited left-wing Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)…