CNN: New Orleans Levee Problems Might Not be a Federal Issue After All
In the weeks that have followed Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, much of the mainstream media have been pointing a finger of blame at the federal government for not properly funding that city’s levee system. This morning, CNN did a report that tears some holes in this premise.On “American Morning,” John King visited South Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, a coastal community just thirty-five…
CNN: Lower Quality Levees in the Poorer Sections of New Orleans
CNN this morning did a series of reports from New Orleans focusing on the problems with that city’s levees. “American Morning’s” Soledad O’Brien first interviewed Joey DIFatta, chairman of St. Bernard Parish, along with New Orleans city council president Oliver Thomas. Later, O’Brien questioned an Army Corps of Engineers colonel. During these discussions, it was suggested that lower quality…
Media Ignorant of IQ Facts
Media reports on scientific findings are often misunderstood, misrepresented or overblown. One such example is a study by Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at King's College London. CNN and others claimed "workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana."Of course, that is not even what the study found. The first clue should…
CNN on Paying for Katrina: Raise Taxes, Cut Iraq Funding
CNN’s Joe Johns patrolled the halls of Congress this morning asking senators and representatives how America was going to pay for the reconstruction of New Orleans. His questions normally revolved around two themes: raising taxes, and cutting funding for the Iraq war (video to follow):To Sen. Cornyn (R–Tex): Are we talking about scaling back tax cuts to pay for Katrina?Lead-in to Sen. Reid (D–…
CNN’s O’Brien Presses Chertoff About Katrina Failures
On CNN’s “American Morning” today, Soledad O’Brien spent much of her interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff focusing on what happened in New Orleans three weeks ago when Katrina hit rather than questioning the secretary about how prepared the Gulf coast is for the looming Hurricane Rita (video link and full transcript to follow):SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Lots of officials have told…
Don't Put All Your Limousine Liberals in One Basket
The NY Times is thrilled with the idea of reporters being red carpet walking stars. Much has been written in the news media as of late about the news media and how all of a sudden they've been acting like the news media. Well, color us nostalgic, but it was with great delight that we went to the 26th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony at the Marriott Marquis on Monday night and…
CNN’s Bill Schneider Equates Hurricane Katrina to Monica Lewinsky
Last week, Brent Baker reported here that Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” joked about Hurricane Katrina being George Bush’s Monica Lewinsky. Today, CNN’s political analyst Bill Schneider said virtually the same thing on “Lou Dobbs Tonight”…but HE wasn’t kidding (video to follow):“Sooner or later, every leader gets in trouble. President Reagan had Iran-Contra, President Clinton had Monica Lewinsky…
Is Ex-FEMA Boss Brown’s Hiring Bush’s Fault or Democrats
In the week leading up to former FEMA director Mike Brown’s exodus, the media spent a lot of time castigating the president for hiring someone with such poor qualifications. Yet, a video report (to follow) from CNN of all places states that the Democrats had a large hand in this appointment. Of course, that hasn’t been the media’s position up to this point. Here is an article from…
CNN's Cafferty Derides 'F-Word Network
Reading viewer email at the bottom of 4:00 hour of CNN's "Situation Room," Jack Cafferty dismissed a call from a viewer "try to be 'fair and balanced'" in his commentary segments, deriding the audience member's suggestion as a "thinly veiled reference to the F-word network."Full transcript:And finally, John writes: Cafferty, your liberal opinions are not appreciated by a majority of the viewers…
