MRC's Bozell Analyzes the Debate Coverage on Fox News Channel
September 29th, 2008 12:19 PM
Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher L. Brent Bozell, III appeared this morning on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends to discuss the media's nearly unanimous acclamation of Illinois Senator Barack Obama as the winner of last Friday's Presidential debate.Mr. Bozell noted one of the few press exceptions, Newsweek, who gave the nod to Arizona Senator John McCain, but…
FNC Features Kissinger Responding to Obama's Debate Claims on Iran
September 28th, 2008 1:53 AM
During a phone interview with FNC anchor Megyn Kelly, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who already voiced disapproval of Barack Obama's attempt to suggest that Kissinger would agree with his intention to meet personally with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, on Saturday elaborated on his disagreement with Obama, and clarified his views on how America should negotiate with Iran. The segment…
Knight on Fox News: CMI Debate Study Shows that Character Counts
September 26th, 2008 2:40 PM
CMI Director Robert Knight appeared on Fox News Live on Friday morning to discuss the key role that character played in the presidential primary debates, a major finding from CMI's latest report, "‘Character,' the Most Important Issue in the Presidential Debate." Knight stated: "Character was the big factor. A third of the questions were directed at trying to find out whether the candidates had…
Fox News Blames Democrats for Financial Crisis, Bill Clinton Agrees
September 25th, 2008 11:25 AM
Going very much against the media meme that the current financial crisis is all George W. Bush and the Republicans' fault, Bill Clinton on Thursday told ABC's Chris Cuomo that Democrats for years have been "resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" (video available here, relevant…
MRC/NB's Bozell: Media Covered Enron More This Year than Fannie Mae, F
September 25th, 2008 10:56 AM
Networks have given more coverage this year to the 6-year-old collapse of Enron than the role of federal government-sponsored mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the present financial crisis, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell noted in a September 25 interview with the hosts of Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends." The NewsBusters publisher argued that the media's lack of…
Bloomberg Columnist Explains PDS, Uses Vulgarity
September 18th, 2008 5:15 PM
To explain the high level of hatred for Governor Sarah Palin, the September 18 edition of "Fox and Friends" invited Bloomberg News columnist Caroline Baum. Ms. Baum, who claims to have studied it extensively, later used a vulgar term to describe which direction women voters will lean.The Bloomberg columnist explained that Governor Palin "made the Democrats’ road to the White House less inevitable…
Olbermann Uses False Information From Daily Kos To Smear Palin
September 18th, 2008 10:23 AM
After apparently taking erroneous information from the far-left-leaning website ThinkProgress on Tuesday to falsely accuse Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of slashing her state's Special Olympics budget, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday called the governor a liar in a rant with potential ties to a Daily Kos posting hours earlier.During his truly tasteless "Bushed" segment,…
Media Report Re-Warmed Obama Campaign Talking Points as Fact
September 17th, 2008 10:31 PM
As Culture and Media Institute Director Robert Knight has noted, the media are still presenting Obama campaign spin on the McCain sex ed ad as hard facts. Last week the McCain campaign released an ad charging Senator Obama with supporting sex education for kindergarten children when he was an Illinois state senator. According to the Obama campaign and the media the legislation in question "was…
MRC's Bozell on 'Fox & Friends' Discussing Media Bias, Negative Advert
September 16th, 2008 12:43 PM
MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared live in the New York studio on the September 16 "Fox & Friends" to discuss negative campaigning this presidential season, as well as the media's bias.Bozell noted that the bias in the media often manifests as a bias by omission and/or a double standard: STEVE DOOCY, co-host: Because everybody in the mainstream media seems to be…
Atlantic Magazine Might Sue McCain-Smearing Photographer
September 15th, 2008 3:46 PM
The photographer that viciously smeared John McCain at her website might be facing a lawsuit for violating the terms of agreement in her contract with The Atlantic magazine.As NewsBusters reported Saturday, Jill Greenberg not only admitted to taking a rather sinister picture of the Republican presidential candidate that she hoped The Atlantic would use on its October cover, but she also generated…
'Fox & Friends' Covers NewsBusters' 'NYT Palin Panic' Piece
September 15th, 2008 11:23 AM
The good folks at "Fox & Friends" Monday morning credited NewsBusters for exposing the four hit pieces the New York Times published Sunday about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.With the words "Palin Panic? NYT Puts Out 4 Hit Pieces In One Day" on the screen, co-host Gretchen Carlson teased (video embedded right):In the meantime, we should talk a little New York Times, and…
Greta Says Media a No-Show in Wasilla, 'Where is Everybody
September 15th, 2008 10:35 AM
One would assume that the Old Media would have a phalanx of intrepid mushing, journos swarming about Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin's hometown. One would think that every single person that lives within 100 miles of Wasilla would have been contacted by at least one journalist by now. That the media's due diligence would have been dilagenced to death at this point. I mean, it's been two weeks! Well…
Friday Funnies: Geraldo Rivera Gets Knocked Over By Hurricane Ike
September 12th, 2008 2:38 PM
Moments ago, Geraldo Rivera, reporting live from Galveston, Texas, was knocked over by the storm surge ahead of Hurricane Ike. This delicious example of poetic justice needs no further introduction (h/t Johnny Dollar):
O’Reilly: Michelle Obama Is ‘Patriot,’ Hasselbeck May Be ‘Pinh
September 12th, 2008 12:02 PM
While FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor this week has been featuring portions of Bill O’Reilly’s interview with Barack Obama which stands out as being more challenging to the Democratic candidate than those interviews conducted by the more liberal mainstream media, it is noteworthy that on Tuesday’s show, during the "Pinheads and Patriots" segment, O’Reilly awarded Michelle Obama the "Patriot"…