Misleading Washington Post headline on Plame
By Ken Shepherd | July 21, 2005 5:33 PM EDT
Perhaps an attempt to reignite the media firestorm over Karl Rove, a front page story in Thursday's Washington Post based on a secret June 2003 State Department memo "central" to the Valerie Plame leak investigation and leaked to staff writers Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei was given a misleading headline which prompts readers into thinking Valerie Plame's was widely known in the Bush administration as that of a covert CIA agent.
Craig Ferguson ribs 60 Minutes
Not an instance of bias, but a touch of humor: The Late Late Show's host Craig Ferguson gently ribbed his network's entertainment and news lineup during his opening monologue last night/this early morning, scoring laughs off the tedium of CBS's 60 Minutes by comparing that show to braving long lines at theme parks.
No Shortage of Errors in Deficit Coverage
By Amy Menefee | July 21, 2005 2:00 PM EDT
Newspapers continue faulty approach to tax cuts.
CBS Talks Down the Economy with Biased Reporting
By Charles Simpson | July 21, 2005 2:00 PM EDT
Trish Regan ignores the numbers to criticize Greenspans 'rosy forecast'.
And She Wasn't Being Ironic
By Rich Noyes | July 21, 2005 11:38 AM EDT
In an interview taped a couple of days ago but aired on this morning's (Thursday's) show, Katie Couric asked Bill Clinton whether he thought Executive Branch employees should be fired for any ethical lapse, whether or not it was criminal:
"President Clinton as you well know President Bush has been under fire recently because Karl Rove allegedly released the identity of a CIA agent to reporters. President Bush has said it's a fireable offense now if a crime was committed but in your view is the ethical violation enough to warrant dismissal?"
Touting a Left-Wing "Body Count" for Iraqi Civilians
By Clay Waters | July 21, 2005 8:21 AM EDT
NYT reporter Hassan Fattah touts a left-wing anti-war report on civilian casualties in Iraq, a Wednesday story topped with a headline that betrays none of the politicized controversy over the report. Instead the head lends the hodge-podge "report" (basically a collection of news clippings) a false sense of authority: "Civilian Toll in Iraq Is Placed at Nearly 25,000." As if it's the authorative word on the matter.
"Michael Moore, Truth Teller." -- July 18 headline in the NYT's art section.
John Roberts on John Roberts
John Roberts, the CBS News correspondent, gives grudging respect to the White House for message management, if not the Supreme Court nominee who shares his name, in a web posting to CBSNews.com today.
CBS Legal Eagle Bets Ranch on Confirmation, Hopes Roberts Is the New O'Connor
By Ken Shepherd | July 20, 2005 11:37 AM EDT
In his analysis piece on whether Judge John Roberts will face smooth sailing towards confirmation or be shipwrecked by a liberal Democratic "Borking," CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen says to "Go Ahead and Bet the Ranch" that Roberts is the next associate justice of the US Supreme Court.
Your Own Personal Blog, XML Feed
By | July 20, 2005 9:18 AM EDT
In case y'all might not have noticed, you can click on a person's name to call up their user info. From that page, you can reach another that has only that user's posts as well as link to that blogger's XML feed (sometimes called RSS).
In addition, the category pages also have XML feeds. This is designed so that people who only want to read news about a particular media outlet/personality can do so more easily.
WNT's Dueling Scientists and Global Warming
By Brad Wilmouth | July 19, 2005 7:22 PM EDT
Recent stories on ABC's World News Tonight have shown conflicting takes on whether global warming has caused the current hurricane season – the first story supporting the theory, the second story (with a different anchor and reporter) dismissing global warming's role. On World News Tonight Saturday on July 9, anchor Dan Harris relayed that scientists are wondering whether global warming is responsible for the early creation of strong hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
Anti-NRA Bias from Olbermann
Inside Politics by the numbers for July 18, 2005
In my last post, I relayed how Inside Politics (IP) had not picked up on a new poll showing decreasing support for Osama bin Laden in the Arab world and a concurrent increase of belief in democratic reform. Well, IP again ignored that story today, fixating again on a Karl Rove angle to the Valerie Plame leak investigation. Senior political analyst Bill Schneider, however, did have time to rattle off negative poll results for President Bush hot off the presses from the Washington Post dealing with, you guessed it, the Karl Rove story. Of the 11 segments aired on IP, only 3 had nothing to do with Rove: a Bruce Morton piece on state dinners under President Bush versus other recent presidents; the "political bytes" segment about 2008 hopefuls campaigning at the National Governor's Association meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, over the weekend; and "blog reporter" Jacki Schechner on a blogger who was fired after her boss read her blog. [click title bar for full post]
CBS dares to criticize business ethics of other companies
By Megan Alvarez | July 18, 2005 2:00 PM EDT
Network assaulted industry but didnt give them any chance to respond.
"Bullshit"
By Brian Boyd | July 18, 2005 12:53 PM EDT
Clay Waters of MRC's TimesWatch caught a CNN employee calling Rove's version of the Valerie Plame story "bullshit" as Dobbs introduced a report from Dana Bash. The last reporter seen sitting next to Dobbs at the anchor desk was Kitty Pilgrim, and the unidentified voice is similar to Pilgrim's. The following occurred on Friday night's Lou Dobbs Tonight: Lou Dobbs: "Tonight, a surprising new development in the CIA leak investigation. Karl Rove's testimony to a federal grand jury is being reported. The testimony suggests that President Bush's political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plame leak. Rove testifying that he first learned about Plame from columnist Robert Novak, a CNN contributor. Dana Bash reports." Unidentified Voice: "That's bullshit."
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