Pew Report: MSNBC Lost More Viewers, Revenue in 2013 Than Fox News, CN

Randy Hall
March 26th, 2014 11:00 PM
According to a new report released on Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, the liberal MSNBC channel's prime-time audience fell 24 percent to 619,500 during the last calendar year, more than the Cable News Network -- which dropped 13 percent to a viewership of 543,000 – and the Fox News Channel, which lost 6 percent but still easily held onto first place with 1.75 million viewers. As if…
 

Washington Post Blogger Agrees: Thomas Friedman Is a Tiresome Blowhard

Tim Graham
February 9th, 2014 8:19 AM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple has cried foul against a New York Observer article titled “The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page." Wemple is right that this article by Ken Kurson is loaded with negative attacks from anonymous Times “insiders,” but stops short of saying this is exactly what the Times (and the Post) do to politicians they don’t like. (See the Vicki Iseman…
 

Rachel Maddow to Write Monthly Column for the Washington Post

Noel Sheppard
December 11th, 2013 5:26 PM
"The journalistic bond between The Post and MSNBC just grew a bit stronger, as the paper’s opinion section announced that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will be writing a monthly column." So began Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple's announcement Wednesday concerning the addition of the perilously liberal Maddow to the Post opinion page.
 

CNN's Chris Cuomo Throws Angry E-mail Fit Over Conflict of Interviewin

Tim Graham
December 3rd, 2013 7:04 AM

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo must surely know there is no easier way to avoid a conflict of interest than letting one of his "New Day" co-anchors interview his brother, New York Governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Cuomo. But acting like a CNN bigfoot after just months at the network, Cuomo insists on interviewing Cuomo (repeatedly). On Monday, he had an e-mail fit with Lloyd…

 

CNN 'Reliable Sources' Guest Host Claims Calling Obama Racist Is Someh

Tim Graham
November 25th, 2013 7:46 AM
Eric Deggans of National Public Radio sat in the guest-host chair on CNN's "Reliable Sources" show on Sunday, and pressed Amy Holmes of TheBlaze TV several times on how she should be more forgiving of Martin Bashir's outrageous remarks about Sarah Palin. First, he suggested, "Martin Bashir apologized for his comments. He reached out to the Palin family.Is there really a problem here? Or are…
 

WashPost Media Critic Honors MSNBC's Rachel Maddow As 'Clear Winner of

Tim Graham
November 10th, 2013 8:27 AM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple read through a stack of books by cable-news hosts for a Sunday Outlook piece, and declared “MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the clear winner of the cable-news-host literary prize” for her book “Drift.” On Sunday’s front page, The Post called it a “blab lit review” and called it “A survey of the many cable big mouths who have stuffed it between hard covers…
 

Hypocrisy Alert: WashPost Puts Race-related Lawsuits on Page One -- Un

Tim Graham
October 13th, 2013 7:02 PM
Media outlets see themselves as brave souls reporting on racial discrimination inside greedy corporations. On June 12, The Washington Post made a front-page story out of a suit against BMW and Dollar General by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for “indirectly discriminating against African Americans by using criminal background checks to screen out workers.” At FrontPage magazine,…
 

Gruesome Opportunist Piers Morgan Promotes New Gun Control Book Just T

Randy Hall
September 20th, 2013 12:57 PM

The announcement for Piers Morgan's new book, Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney, states that the liberal host of a Cable News Network weeknight program “is one of the most talked-about, controversial figures in the media today.” Even though Morgan has been engaged in a years-long crusade to implement extreme gun-control laws, neither he nor his publisher, Simon &…

 

NPR Pressed to Correct False Rape-and-Pregnancy Story by Daily Beast B

Tim Graham
September 6th, 2013 2:05 PM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple recalled Daily Beast boss Tina Brown hate-tweeting her former Washington bureau chief Howard Kurtz: “am I forgetting something or didn’t I fire you for serial inaccuracy?” “That was a bit of classlessness that simply wasn’t going to go unpunished,” Wemple wrote. “And now the journalism gods have spoken, via a correction that is available on NPR.” On…
 

Even The New Yorker Admits 'Conservatives Are Far Less Visible on MSNB

Tim Graham
August 28th, 2013 8:12 AM
Even the lefties at The New Yorker magazine know that Fox offers more space to liberals than MSNBC does to conservatives. Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple's headline was "MSNBC: Must-agree TV." The New Yorker's Kelefa Sanneh (for eight years a music critic at The New York Times) profiled MSNBC and declared point blank that "Conservatives are far less visible on MSNBC than liberals…
 

Bozell Column: Can Bezos Save The Washington Post

Brent Bozell
August 10th, 2013 8:11 AM
The Washington Post is a legend in the minds of the Washington elite, so its financial decline has caused quiet panic. As NPR media reporter David Folkenflik put it, “You think of stories like the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, these are all stories where The Washington Post led the nation's understanding, the world's understanding of some major issues.” Outside the liberal media, you wonder how…
 

Writer of April NYT Weiner Puff Piece: ‘Never Even Occurred to Me to

Noel Sheppard
July 30th, 2013 10:31 AM
When the New York Times Magazine published an 8,000-word puff piece in April about Anthony Weiner and wife Huma Abedin, the media predictably applauded with all three broadcast networks gleefully referring to the piece to assist in the sext-crazed politician's rehabilitation. Adding insult to injury, the article's author Jonathan Van Meter - who is a contributing editor to Vogue and New York…
 

WashPost's Media Blogger Bemoans 'Tedious Outrage Machine' Upset with

Ken Shepherd
July 17th, 2013 5:53 PM
Updated below: Wemple doubles down | Are you genuinely offended and angered by Rolling Stone magazine putting a glamour-style photograph of Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its August 1 edition, plugging its corresponding cover story, "The Bomber," by promising readers a look at "How a Popular, Promising Student Was Failed by His Family, Fell Into Radical Islam and Became…
 

New Liberal Study 'Lends Credence to Conservative Charges' of Bias; Dr

Tim Graham
June 18th, 2013 8:34 AM
In a study finding that should be completely obvious to anyone who spends an hour with the media, the liberal-leaning Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has found media coverage “was tilted massively against those who favor traditional marriage.” Pew’s study of more than 1,000 stories from March 18 to May 12 found what anyone could find. Washington Post media blogger…