Finally: An ACORN Story Sprouts Into Print at the NY Times
September 16th, 2009 2:24 PM
On Wednesday morning, the ACORN scandal finally blossomed into an actual print story from an actual New York Times reporter. Previously the Times had almost totally ignored the blossoming scandal, even as the Census Bureau cut ties with the controversial left-wing housing activist group and the Senate voted overwhelmingly to withdraw the group's funding. Scott Shane's "Conservatives Draw Blood…
Amazing: NY Times Still Almost Totally Ignores ACORN Scandals
September 15th, 2009 4:46 PM
Looking for news on the Obama administration these days? Look anywhere but the mainstream media, including the pages of the New York Times. One may have thought it impossible for the nation's largest and most influential newspaper to virtually ignore the scandals involving the left-wing housing activist group The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more notoriously known as…
MRC Report Card: Media Coverage of the 9/12 Protests
September 15th, 2009 2:05 PM
Big liberal protests, such as the Million Mom March (for gun control), the 2006 demonstrations in favor of illegal immigrants’ “rights,” and numerous anti-war marches all garnered heavy play and adoring coverage from the broadcast networks, cable news outlets, and big papers like the New York Times. So how did those news outlets react to Saturday’s huge protest with conservative themes? MRC’s…
Chuck Todd Suggests Covering Van Jones Waste Of MSM Time
September 15th, 2009 8:21 AM
I've been trying to give Chuck Todd the benefit of the doubt when it comes to classifying him as part of what Rush would call the state-controlled media. But that indulgence was strained to the breaking point on Morning Joe today when Todd flatly rejected the notion that the MSM had under-covered the Van Jones story and suggested that delving into his background would have been a waste of MSM…
WaPo's Kurtz Offers Weak Excuses for Van Jones Silence
September 14th, 2009 5:59 PM
When Glenn Beck reports that a top-level White House advisor has endorsed communism, accused 'white polluters' of poisoning minority communities, called his political opponents a**holes, and believes an American president was complicit in the slaughter of innocent civilians, Beck must have a hidden agenda. When the mainstream media fails to report these facts, it's all an honest mistake.Or so one…
NY Times Buries Massive Conservative D.C. Rally, Hails Smaller Liberal
September 14th, 2009 2:28 PM
There was a huge protest against Obama's big-government plans at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, but one was hard-pressed to find evidence of it on the New York Times home page Sunday morning: A small headline tucked under the Political subhead. The print edition wasn't much more forthcoming. Although the Washington D.C. Fire Dept. estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people attended the 9/12 protest, and…
Media Myth: GOP Has No Health Care Ideas
September 13th, 2009 5:45 PM
You wouldn't know it from reading much of the mainstream media's coverage of the legislative battles over health care reform, but Republicans and President Obama share a number of prominent goals. Republican lawmakers have tried address the same problems that the President highlights, but congressional Democrats won't allow GOP amendments to get past committee votes.With the exception of the…
NYT Home Page Virtually Ignores Sept. 12 DC Rally, Gives Obama MN Spee
September 13th, 2009 11:37 AM
Not that any of this will surprise anyone, but it should go on the record nonetheless. The New York Times's home page as of its 10:15 a.m. update looked like this (click to enlarge in a separate window): You'll note no mention of the D.C. rally yesterday that drew an estimated 1-2 million people.
Maureen Dowd: Joe Wilson's 'You Lie' Outburst All About Racism
September 13th, 2009 1:10 AM
One of the biggest concerns most conservatives had about a Barack Obama presidency was that any criticism of him or his policies would be reported by liberal media members as an act of racism. Sadly, such fears ended up actually being understated, for since Inauguration Day, the left-wing punditry have routinely depicted anyone with the guts to question the new President -- from Tea Party goers…
Today, NYT's Hulse Admits 'Derisive Hoots' of Bush by Dems During
September 11th, 2009 4:01 PM
New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse ignored his own reporting yesterday when condemning Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress, with Hulse insisting it was a wholly unprecedented outburst. Yet in a 2005 story Hulse admitted Democrats had "hollered" at Bush during the State of the Union when Bush brought up Social Security…
NYT's Hulse Accuses Rep. of 'Disrespect' for Obama, Skips Own 2005 Rep
September 10th, 2009 1:27 PM
Covering President Obama's health care address to Congress, congressional reporter Carl Hulse filed a full story on the outburst by Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, "In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol." Yet Hulse managed to ignore his own reporting from Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address to suggest the GOP had been uniquely disrespectful to President Obama.…
NYT Editor Offers Tepid Excuses for Lack of Van Jones Coverage
September 9th, 2009 3:06 PM
A top editor at the New York Times this week owned up to the paper’s lack of coverage of the controversy surrounding former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. Rather than leaving it there, however, the editor noted the paper’s minimal online coverage, insisted that the Washington bureau was short-staffed, and suggested that Jones and his contentious positions really were not important enough to cover at…
Today's Push for ObamaCare Matches Media Spin for HillaryCare in 1990s
September 9th, 2009 12:27 PM
As President Obama prepares to deliver his 29th speech on health care, this time before a joint session of Congress, it recalls Bill Clinton’s September 22, 1993 speech to Congress on the same topic. Back then, media liberals hit some of the exact same points journalists are making today: “reform” would end the “shame” of America being the only industrialized nation without universal coverage;…
NYT: August Recess Didn't Greatly Alter Opinion on ObamaCare
September 9th, 2009 11:28 AM
Have you ever wondered what planet liberal media members live on?Before you answer, consider the following astonishing quote from a New York Times article published Tuesday:While the month of August clearly knocked the White House back on its heels, as Congressional town hall-style meetings exposed Americans’ unease with an overhaul, the uproar does not seem to have greatly altered public opinion…