'Imus' Radio Producer Debates Al Sharpton on 'Hannity & Colmes
For those that missed it, Friday night’s debate on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” between “Imus in the Morning” producer Bernard McGuirk and Rev. Al Sharpton was a fireworks-filled extravaganza (video in three parts available here, here, and here; full transcript follows).Without question, McGuirk came prepared to take on the man conceivably most responsible for his termination by CBS Radio, as…
UMd. Study: RSS Feeds Poorly Designed by Media Outlets, NY Times Among
A new study by my alma mater, the University of Maryland, looked at the online divisions of 19 major traditional print and broadcast media:... to see
which ones gave the users of their RSS feeds the same number of
stories, the same range of news sources, in as timely a fashion as
could be gotten if those users went to the individual website. The Los Angeles Times, ABCNews.com, and Foxnews.com…
The Importance of Being Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch, founder of the Fox network and Fox News Channel and CEO of media giant News Corp has the ability to make grown journalists cry. A quick survey of liberal media blogger Jim Romenesko's Media News page shows an industry in a panic over Murdoch's $5 billion offer to purchase Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones.Why all the fear and loathing?To put it simply, Rupert Murdoch is…
Salon’s Walsh and Greenwald Attack AP’s 'Hit Job' on Olbermann
Has the king of Bush Derangement Syndrome, Keith Olbermann, created a new liberal malady characterized by an almost incomprehensible inability to tolerate any criticism of the MSNBC host?After reading Joan Walsh and Glenn Greenwald’s articles at Salon Monday, one could certainly come to the conclusion that such an affliction exists, and that the two are suffering from this little known…
Cindy Sheehan Calls for Boycott of ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Sponsors at
The Kos Kidz must be so happy to have a diarist named Cindy Sheehan in their company. Of course, oddly enough, many of them are actually to her left politically.Regardless, Sheehan’s most recent post at Daily Kos displayed her usual reverence for the office of the President of the United States and all things conservative…NOT!Her real hatred was directed at Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, culminating…
Sean Hannity Exposes Democrat Party Held Hostage by Left-Wing Blogosph
It goes without saying that Fox News’s Sean Hannity is never one to mince words, especially when the subject matter is something he feels passionately about.In such instances, one better strap oneself in tightly, for you're in for a bumpy, no holds barred ride.Such was certainly the case Sunday evening when the outspoken conservative did a ten minute segment on “Hannity’s America” (h/t Tim Graham…
