Nets Paint Results as Slap at Bush, But in '97 Saw No Rebuke of Clinto
November 9th, 2005 9:17 PM
Eight years ago, when a Democrat was President and Republicans won the governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather gave the results a piddling 12 seconds, didn't even utter the names of the winners and made clear that local issues -- “the high cost of automobile insurance and a tax on car ownership” -- were “the key issues.” But on Wednesday night, the same…
Borger on Yesterday's Elections: This Was Not A Great Night For Presid
November 9th, 2005 8:58 PM
On tonight’s “CBS Evening News,” Gloria Borger said yesterday’s election “Was not a great night for President Bush.” Moreover, in the aftermath, Republicans are now “worried about losing the House, and maybe the Senate.” In addition, she claimed Republicans want the president to establish an agenda. Failing that, “just get out of our way for the 2006 election.”Similar to other mainstream media…
CBS Producer Peddles 'Jesus Juice' Wine Label
November 6th, 2005 10:43 PM
A CBS producer who led the network's coverage of the recent
Michael Jackson trial has been marketing a brand of wine under the label "Jesus
Juice," complete with a logo of a Christ figure sporting a Jacksonesque
red glove, fedora hat, white socks, and penny loafers
NewsBusters.org has learned that Bruce Rheins, a high-level producer for
such shows as the "CBS Evening News", and his wife,…
Nets Hype Bush “Dogged” in Argentina by Scandal -- But Media Impos
November 4th, 2005 9:03 PM
Hoisted on their own petard? Washington journalists have formulated outrage over how “Scooter” Libby fed information to New York Times reporter Judy Miller which ended up on the paper's front page one Sunday, and then Vice President Cheney appeared on a Sunday talk TV interview show where he insidiously cited the story as proof of the potential nuclear threat from Saddam Hussein. On Friday…
CBS Again Cites Negative Bush Numbers in Poll Which Under-Represented
November 3rd, 2005 8:05 PM
In a Thursday CBS Evening News story on how Karl Rove is a “distraction” in the West Wing, Gloria Borger cited how “a new CBS News poll shows that only 39 percent of Americans say that President Bush has more honesty and integrity than most people in public life, down eleven points since early last year.” But that number comes from the same poll, it turns out, that CBS News skewed by weighing it…
CBS News Demonstrates How to Properly Skew a Poll
November 3rd, 2005 11:00 AM
As NewsBusters reported Wednesday evening, a new CBS News poll pegged President Bush’s job approval rating at 35 percent. Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics posted an analysis of this poll’s methodology at his blog last evening (hat tip from a NewsBusters reader named “Jsemby.”) What his figures show is that CBS polled 46% more Democrats in its weighted sample than Republicans: New CBS News poll…
CBS Highlights How Only Nixon Had Lower Approval in Second Term
November 2nd, 2005 8:12 PM
Wednesday's CBS Evening News touted a new poll by the network which found, as anchor Bob Schieffer relayed, that “the President's job approval has reached the lowest level yet” at “only 35 percent” with Congress “rated even lower” at a mere “34 percent,” but Bush and Congress are doing a lot better than Vice President Cheney whose “favorable rating is down nine points this year to just 19…
Evening Shows Distort Alito’s Abortion Role, Peg Him as “Hardline
October 31st, 2005 9:39 PM
In covering on Monday night the nomination of appellate court judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, ABC and CBS distorted his role and position on the husband-notification abortion case and pegged him as a “staunch” or “hardline” conservative, but NBC managed to correctly describe his role in the abortion case and depicted him as “dependably conservative, though with an independent streak."…
