What Time of Year Is It, Hillary? No C-Word Present in Her 'Presents

December 19th, 2007 10:51 PM
I've noted previously that Old Media has developed a squeamishness towards describing this time of year in business stories as the "Christmas shopping season." In the midst of media criticism of Mike Huckabee's Christmas ad, including the Whoopi Goldberg-Joy Behar exchange on "The View" noted earlier today by NewsBusters' Justin McCarthy, how interesting it is that one of Hillary Clinton's latest…

Jenna Bush Calls Her Dad While on 'Ellen

December 5th, 2007 4:58 PM
Here's something you don't see every day: the daughter of the President calling her dad while doing an interview on national television. Yet, that's what happened on "Ellen" Wednesday (taped Tuesday) when host Ellen Degeneres didn't believe guest Jenna Bush could just pick up the phone and call her dad any time she wanted.Marvelously, Jenna ended up being right. What follows is the partial…

The Media, Their Polls and the False News They Produce

November 27th, 2007 10:33 AM
First published in Human Events on November 27th, 2007.Wash, spin, rinse, spin. Phone, spin, report, spin, poll, spin. The similarities between the work of the mainstream media and a laundry machine are striking. Yet there is nothing about the cycle -- the spin-report-poll-spin cycle -- that does for political events what detergent does for your boxers or briefs. The media, as One, spend days…

John Edwards, Michelle Obama Bail on 'The View' Citing Writers Strike

November 24th, 2007 2:09 PM

Anchoress's Anecdotes Demonstrate Ongoing Negative Impact of Old Media

November 16th, 2007 10:02 PM
The Anchoress, a three-time Weblog Awards finalist and 2007 Catholic Blog Awards Winner (congratulations!) in the Best Political/Social Commentary category (scroll down at link to see it), delivered a cold but necessary shower earlier this evening to those of us who are tempted to exaggerate or overstate the impact New Media is having on most Americans. I'll bet that a lot of us can relay similar…

Ratings Victim Couric: Ubiquity of TV Is a 'Real Turn-off

November 8th, 2007 12:36 PM
I'm sure as a concerned social observer, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric may genuinely think we as a society are too addicted to TV. That said, I can't help but feel that her persistent third-place status in the broadcast evening news race is part and parcel of her Andy Rooney-Lite rant against the boob tube. Here's the November 7 page from Katie Couric's "Notebook" (see video here):This…

The Hillary Whitewash Continues

November 8th, 2007 10:39 AM
It seems that no bad Hillary Clinton deed goes unresponded to. As we are in the midst of a presidential campaign, this by itself is not an issue. That it is the national media that is leading this charge is. One need focus on but the latest corners of the Clinton pantheon to come to light to see the full court press the press puts on when their girl needs them.In an October 10 Boston Globe…

What Is ITVS? And Why Is It Funding Libertine-Left Propaganda

November 7th, 2007 12:07 PM
The Independent Television Service was established by Congress in 1988 with legislation directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to establish ITVS with "a national coalition of independent producer groups." Currently, CPB awards $15 million a year to ITVS, a one-sided, left-wing "independent" filmmakers’ organizing center. ITVS saw its purpose to be "a catalyst for change, a way…

Bernie Goldberg: Members of MSM 'Don't Care' About Liberal Bias

November 2nd, 2007 11:33 AM

CNN's Anderson Cooper Gives REM Political Platform, Album Plug

October 10th, 2007 5:47 PM

Death By Stoning: Hollywood vs. Real World

October 4th, 2007 3:38 PM

Koppel 'Hurts' for Rather 'Travesty

September 25th, 2007 5:25 PM
From the birds-of-a-feather department comes news that former ABC "Nightline" host Ted Koppel is "hurting" for former CBS anchor Dan Rather.The latter's ouster was a "travesty," Koppel said, on account of the fact that Rather's infamous National Guard story was "much more correct than incorrect." More: “Dan Rather was squeezed out” with such little class from CBS News, Mr. Koppel said today at a…

On Ed Driscoll’s ‘Atlas Mugged,’ and Breaking Old Media’s Stra

September 23rd, 2007 12:39 PM

Major Media Omit Ahmadinejad’s Upcoming Speech at Columbia Universit

September 20th, 2007 4:05 PM
Besides omitting Iran’s terror ties in their coverage Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s planned visit to Ground Zero in New York City, as Scott Whitlock noted in his earlier post, ABC and CBS, as well as NBC, failed to mentioned that Ahmadinejad is also giving a lecture at Columbia University. The lecture, sponsored by the University, is planned on September 24, the same day Ahmadinejad will be…