Howard Kurtz Accuses Fox News of Flip-flopping on Protesters
August 23rd, 2009 7:26 PM
As Americans flood to town hall meetings and Tea Parties to express their opposition to ObamaCare, media members find it somewhat hypocritical that these same people might have looked upon anti-Bush protests with contempt.This seeming contradiction was addressed on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday when host Howard Kurtz asked his guests, "[H]asn't Fox, in fact, flipped -- some Fox hosts, I should…
Bill O'Reilly Takes On Jon Stewart's Critique of Fox News
August 22nd, 2009 2:39 PM
Is there a new cable battle brewing between Fox News's Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart?Such appeared to be the case last week when Stewart on Wednesday's "Daily Show" harshly criticized O'Reilly and FNC for suddenly coming out in support of protesters, and O'Reilly struck back on Thursday's "Factor."Who's right?We report, you decide (videos embedded below the fold, Stewart first…
MRC's Motley on FNC's Beck to Discuss FCC's New Chief Diversity 'Czar
August 14th, 2009 10:55 PM
Seton Motley, the Media Research Center's Director of Communications, was on the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck to discuss the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s new "Chief Diversity Officer," Mark Lloyd.Chief Diversity Officer Lloyd is virulently anti-capitalist, almost myopically racially fixated and exuberantly pro-regulation. He is a frightening guy to have having any power at the…
MRC-TV Alert: Motley On Glenn Beck Program Discussing FCC Diversity Cz
August 14th, 2009 5:28 PM
Media Research Center Director of Communications and NewsBusters contributor Seton Motley is scheduled to appear on today's Glenn Beck program on Fox News Channel. His segment should air around 5:45 p.m. EDT.Motley will discuss the views of FCC's new "chief diversity officer" Mark Lloyd and how his influence on regulatory policy could prove detrimental to free speech on America's radio airwaves.…
Company on Decision to Pull Ads from Beck TV Show: 'We Do Not Want to
August 14th, 2009 2:55 PM
UPDATE: Sargento says Colors of Change did not influence company's decision (at bottom)What constitutes "hateful speech?" It depends on the views of the individual, or in this case the advocacy group propagating the claim. Earlier this week, Plymouth, Wisc.-based Sargento Food, Inc., along with several other companies, pulled their advertising from the Fox News Channel's "Glenn Beck" program,…
Race-Baiting Group Hitting TV's Glenn Beck Was Founded By Obama's Comm
August 12th, 2009 11:34 AM
President Obama's controversial green jobs czar --a self-described “rowdy black nationalist” and "communist"-- is a co-founder of the same unsavory left-wing pressure group that is urging an advertiser boycott of Glenn Beck's TV show after Beck did several unflattering news packages on the czar. Not surprisingly, Big Media haven't noticed the connection.The czar in question is Van Jones, a…
FNC Interviews 'Angry Democrat' Who Challenged Hoyer on ObamaCare
August 10th, 2009 2:44 PM
On Friday's Glenn Beck Program on FNC, substitute host Eric Bolling interviewed the now-famous "angry Democrat," Don Jeror, who confronted House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at a recent public event as he challenged the Democratic push for universal health insurance. At the event, Jeror famously contended that while President Obama took six months to choose a dog for his family, Congress is "…
FNC Notes Media Obsessing Over Conservative Protest Origins, But Not L
August 10th, 2009 11:24 AM
On Thursday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O'Reilly hosted a discussion with FNC analyst and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg, as the two pointed out the mainstream media's double standard in "obsessing" over how protesters who have been challenging ObamaCare were organized, but have shown no interest in the organization of protesters by left-wing groups. After O'Reilly's "…
Victim of Alleged SEIU Town Hall Assault in St. Louis Interviewed on C
August 7th, 2009 7:19 PM
On Friday’s Your World program, Fox News Channel’s interviewed Kenneth Gladney, the victim of an assault outside a health care town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6, along with his lawyer David Brown. A video of the immediate aftermath of the attack (posted earlier on NewsBusters by Seton Motley) showed some of the suspects wearing t-shirts bearing the logo of the SEIU union, which is a…
Will Murdoch's Switch to Subscription-Based Web Content Work
August 6th, 2009 6:26 PM
Rupert Murdoch has become the first media mogul to make bold changes to his company’s newspaper monetization strategy that may reshape the way people receive their news--by paying for it. Up to this point, web publications have primarily relied on advertising alone for revenues but this has had problems because online advertising rates are so much lower than those in print. Murdoch and others…
Bill Press Thinks Recess Protests Will HELP Dems Pass ObamaCare
August 4th, 2009 6:33 PM
For Congress, the August recess almost always means a round of town hall meetings and other gatherings at which our elected officials get to hear from the citizenry on what they have done thus far in session. This summer, for those Congressman and Senators voting for or supporting government-run ObamaCare, the cap-and-trade tax and regulatory regime, the $787 billion alleged "stimulus" package…
