Media Business
CNN/YouTube Special Features Liberal Videos Disproportionately
July 17th, 2007 5:30 PM
On Monday night, CNN aired a special hour promoting the upcoming "CNN/YouTube" presidential debates. CNN is encouraging viewers to record their questions for the presidential candidates and post them on YouTube.com. In anticipation of this historic event, hosts John Roberts and Kiran Chetry shared just a few of the thousands of video submissions CNN has already received. Of the videos aired on…
Bill O’Reilly Takes on JetBlue’s Sponsorship of Daily Kos Conventi
July 16th, 2007 5:35 PM
According to Bill O’Reilly’s website, the Fox News host Monday evening will be taking on a decision by airliner JetBlue to sponsor YearlyKos, the second annual convention of Daily Kos and company:Talking Points Memo & Top StoryJetBlue and the radical leftWhy would JetBlue sponsor a hateful far-left website? We'll discuss it. This information was obviously made available to the Kossacks, as…
Man Snoozes During John Edwards's ABC Town Hall...Then Vanishes
July 16th, 2007 3:59 PM
Did "Good Morning America" physically remove a man who appeared to be dozing off during Democratic Senator John Edwards's town hall meeting on Monday? Early in the 7am hour, the man (pictured at right) appeared to be sleeping, or at least dozing, while Edwards discussed his plan for Iraq.
Around 7:11, the individual, who was seated to the back and right of Edwards, mysteriously disappeared (…
FNC's Cavuto Notes MSM-wide Yawn Over Record Dow Close
July 13th, 2007 6:30 PM
On today's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," the host devoted a portion of his mailbag segment to viewers from across the fruited plain telling Cavuto of their local media outlets had ignored or downplayed yesterday's stock market closing. Cavuto noted that in contrast, a large market correction in February was blared on the front pages of the nation's largest broadsheets. Video (2:26): Real (1.77…
Army Recruiting Goals: Another Example of the Media's Management of th
July 10th, 2007 1:14 PM
Of late, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been arguing that the mainstream media persistently exercise the "management" of the news. That is to say, aside from slanted and biased reporting on the news of the day, they frame news developments in a way that manage events to fit a preconceived meme or storyline.The media's coverage of Army recruiting numbers is no exception.Bear in mind these…
PBS’s Moyers Disgracefully Rips Fox Owner Rupert Murdoch
June 30th, 2007 12:06 PM
I’m not sure what derangement syndrome Bill Moyers is currently suffering from, but on Friday’s “Bill Moyers Journal” broadcast on PBS, the outspoken host went into an invective-filled tirade about media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that frankly was one of the most disgraceful exhibitions of liberal bias so far this year.In his closing monologue, Moyers compared Murdoch to the Marquis de Sade, Imelda…
