CBS Highlights Meteorologists Who Doubt Human Activity Is Causing Glob

May 16th, 2010 2:42 PM
Saturday’s CBS Evening News gave attention to weather forecasters who disbelieve the theory that human creation of carbon dioxide is causing global warming. Citing a poll finding that most meteorologists believe global warming is occurring, correspondent Elaine Quijano also found that only about one-third believe human activity is causing such warming. After beginning her report by recounting the…

Nets Celebrate May Day Pro-Illegal Immigrant Protests, Barely Mention

May 1st, 2010 10:51 PM
“Angry backlash from coast to coast,” ABC’s David Muir teased Saturday’s World News, “huge rallies across this country tonight against that new controversial immigration law.” On CBS, Jeff Glor teased: “May Day Message. Immigrant right groups rally from coast to coast against Arizona's controversial new law.”ABC reporter Eric Horng touted how “this is the fifth year in a row that nationwide…

CBS 'Early Show' Hits Obama From Left on Offshore Drilling

April 1st, 2010 12:55 PM
Introducing a segment on Thursday's CBS Early Show about President Obama's decision to open up some new areas to offshore oil drilling, fill-in co-host Jeff Glor warned that some of Obama's "closest allies are especially unhappy." In a report that followed, White House correspondent Bill Plante noted "Environmental groups are disappointed." However, Plante also touted the idea that the move could…

CBS Portrays Israel as Starving Gazans While Giving Less Attention to

January 8th, 2010 4:12 AM

CBS Highlights Cynthia McKinney’s Gaza Adventure, Ignores Extremism

January 6th, 2010 2:57 AM

CBS: ‘Rolex’ Swiss Health Care System a ‘Model for America

January 4th, 2010 12:38 PM
On Saturday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor teased an upcoming story on Switzerland’s health care system by wondering: "Could Switzerland’s health care be a model for America?" He later introduced the segment by claiming that the Swiss system could be "a glimpse of what the U.S. health care system of the future might look like." Correspondent Richard Roth touted the Swiss "love of capitalism…

CBS Frets Obama Must Work and So Can’t ‘Recharge His Batteries

January 1st, 2010 2:02 PM
The failures that allowed the unsuccessful Christmas Day terrorist attack have marred President Barack Obama’s relaxation schedule in Hawaii, CBS’s Jeff Glor and Chip Reid regretted Thursday night as Reid fretted Obama had “hoped to spend this vacation recharging his batteries, but now he appears to be spending most of it working” and assured viewers Obama is moving fast to protect Americans: “…

CBS Sees 'Bitter Medicine' in Employer Mandates to Buy Health Insuranc

December 24th, 2009 11:39 PM
On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent John Blackstone gave attention to the danger for small businesses if the final version of health care reform requires employers to provide health insurance for their employees as he highlighted two business owners – one who fears health care reform could close down his night club business while the other is more optimistic about how her business would…

In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communi

December 13th, 2009 10:42 PM
Network journalists who were quick to see racists, haters and extremists amongst the “tea party” protesters were oblivious on Saturday to communists in the “climate justice” march in Copenhagen whose cause they trumpeted -- even as the video they showed included brief shots of marchers waving red flags displaying the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle. “The streets were filled today with tens of…

CNN Catches Up On Baucus Scandal & Labels as Dem More Than Other Nets

December 7th, 2009 1:41 PM
While it has been documented that CNN's Howard Kurtz chided his own news network for ignoring the recently-revealed scandal involving Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus nominating his girlfriend for a U.S. attorney position -- after the CNN anchor had monitored CNN on Saturday -- it turns out that on Sunday morning, even before Kurtz's Reliable Sources show had begun, CNN had already started…

CBS Reports ClimateGate During Show Preempted By Football

December 6th, 2009 3:27 PM
CBS on Saturday finally covered the growing ClimateGate scandal, but did so when its "Evening News" program was going to be preempted by college football in most of the country.With the SEC Championship game between the universities of Florida and Alabama starting at 4PM EST, few would see CBS's report on this controversy unless they read an article at the network's website.There, the video of…

Broadcast TV Morning Shows Offered 64 Words on Maine Gay Vote; NBC Tot

November 4th, 2009 5:33 PM

CBS Finds Less Govt Regulation Means Fewer Traffic Accidents in Dutch

September 11th, 2009 12:26 AM
On Saturday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Mark Phillips filed a report that lends credibility to the conservative or libertarian theory that too much regulation can be counterproductive and even lead to results opposite to those intended, as he highlighted a town in the Netherlands that took the seemingly radical step of removing all its traffic lights and road signs. Rather than resulting in…

Flashback: CBS Had No Difficulty Finding Van Jones for 2003 Anti-Iraq

September 10th, 2009 12:27 PM
If you rely only on the three major broadcast networks or one of the top major national papers as your news sources, the name "Van Jones" might prompt you to say,"Who?" But, while the media had difficulty reporting on Van Jones the embattled member of the Obama Administration, it had no such trouble covering Van Jones the anti-Iraq War protestor. Jones, who was President Barack Obama's so-…