Media Business
ABC, Michael Moore, and the Floating Bar Known as the First Amendment
September 7th, 2006 7:29 PM
Did you hear that sound Thursday afternoon? That was the Constitution weeping as one of the nation’s major political parties trampled all over the First Amendment. Remember what that is…that right bestowed upon us by our Founding Fathers guaranteeing freedom of speech?Well, if what was reported by NewsBusters here, and the Ostroy Report here (hat tip to Hot Air) are correct, and ABC really has…
Will Thoretz Watch, Day One
August 29th, 2006 2:24 PM
Will Thoretz is the company spokesman for VNU Media, the company that owns Editor & Publisher and employs Editor Greg Mitchell, a man that has something of a "truth problem" according to Michael Silence, and seems to be on the wrong side of an example of "journalistic malpractice" according to Stephen Spruiell.
Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall.com attempted to contact Mitchell at Editor…
CBS Gets in on the Fake News Business
August 29th, 2006 11:00 AM
Faking news photos isn't just for Islamic propagandists any more.A TVNewser reader has caught CBS in the act, altering a photo to make new anchor Katie Couric's waistline appear slimmer than it really is. Question: Is CBS doing better now that it's only faking news to make its anchor look skinny, or is it doing worse now that it's making phony pictures instead of relying on nutjobs to do it?…
Gore: 'Democracy is Under Attack
August 28th, 2006 1:10 PM
Former veep Al Gore continues to get slavishly great press (the kind
a Republican could only get by switching parties à la Jim Jeffords),
this time
for a speech he gave in Scotland claiming that "democracy is under
attack" from media consolidation. I'm doubtful that he mentioned
similar dangers from ultrarich leftists like George Soros trying to buy
their own governments in various countries.…
News You Won't See: Anti-Semitic Boy Band Tops Palestinian Charts
August 25th, 2006 10:38 AM
Here's a story you're not likely to see covered by today's MSM TV: the story of a Palestinian boy band who made it big...by writing up a song praising Hezollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Click here for an MP3 of it.)The song, "Hawk of Lebanon," is mostly a 10-minute repetition of the phrase "Yallah, Nasrallah" along with other delightful lyrics such as "I hope we can destroy your life and make…
Pervasive and Systematic Bias in Middle East News Coverage: Now We Kno
August 12th, 2006 6:15 PM
It is hard to overstate the importance of what Little Green Footballs' site operator Charles Johnson learned from a clearly knowledgeable person in the news business, and revealed in a post yesterday morning. Anyone who attempts to understand events in the Middle East but is unaware of what Johnson has exposed is being shortchanged, and very likely misled.
It was only a week ago that Johnson…
Hollywood Loves Snakes On the Silver Screen
August 9th, 2006 1:36 PM
It's not just Samuel L. Jackson. Hollywood really does love snakes on the silver screen.The MRC's Business & Media Institute today released the second installment of our Bad Company trilogy today.The three-part special report series examines the television entertainment, cinematic, and network news media's biases against the American businessman.In our first study we found, among other…
CNN Puts A Castro on the Payroll
August 7th, 2006 9:34 AM
What better way for CNN to show where it stands on the issues of the day than to officially put Castro's daughter on the payroll as a contributor? Jon Friedman delivers a slap to CNN for this obvious attempt to position itself as the network with the most communist insight. You have to wonder exactly what journalistic verities Alina Fernandez brings to the job. Granted, she is the host of a radio…
