Is this Jeff Zucker's new vision for CNN? Instead of reporting hard-hitting news, Thursday's 9 a.m. ET hour of Newsroom featured conservatives getting whacked by a gauntlet of talking heads, celebrities, and centrist and liberal guests. And anchor Carol Costello added a liberal lament of "Will Gitmo ever close?" Here were some "stories" that CNN… Read more »
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Comcast Devotes $1.5 Million to Ad Time for the Gay Left
Film director Brett Ratner will debut his new pro-gay "public service announcements" at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s Media Awards on March 16 in New York. A big television partner of this libertine-left cultural politics is once again Comcast, which will contribute "$ 1.5 million in national airtimes on its Xfinity TV cable systems,… Read more »
USA Today’s Moore Devotes 20 Gushy Paragraphs to Al Jazeera’s New Booming U.S. Operation
"Seven years after it arrived in the U.S., Al Jazeera is putting up its sign," Martha Moore began her February 20 USA Today story, "Al Jazeera makes major U.S. expansion," a 20-paragraph item lacking any critics of the Qatari-government backed network which has a history of anti-Americanism. "With the $ 500 million purchase of Current… Read more »
WashPost Devotes 33 Paragraphs, Three Photos to Front-page Story on Same-sex Weddings in Maryland
Most of the January 2 front page for The Washington Post was devoted to the resolution of the so-called fiscal cliff, but editors made sure to leave space for a gauzy 33-paragraph story entitled "History at the altar: Maryland sees wave of same-sex weddings as law takes effect." By contrast, an uplifting story involving a… Read more »