Media Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, how much time did MSDNC devote to Saturday night's historic vote? Nine minutes . To be fair, David Shuster did have a few tweets during the day as well.
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | yesterday
Subject: txt msm bias bdd fnn - 1st - One year ago one week before Thanksgiving -- MSNBC ridiculously plastered “BREAKING NEWS” on-screen for video of Sarah Palin at a turkey farm just after pardoning one, running more than three minutes of video of some turkeys being slaughtered by a man in the background behind her. Palin, then just weeks off the presidential campaign trail, was simply...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Another Saturday night, another vote on Capitol Hill on healthcare reform, and coverage of it on cable news. The vote, which essentially allows the debate to begin on the Senate floor, was 60-39, with Ohio GOP Sen. George Voinovich the only senator not to vote. Interestingly, all the cable news channels were in taped programming and shook up the schedules to broadcast the Senate vote and related analysis....
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
By GottaLaff Good news and hope for those detainees who should not be there in the first place: Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
• Fox Business will cover the Senate vote on healthcare reform tomorrow night. Coverage begins at 8pmET with David Asman anchoring from New York and Peter Barnes reporting live from Capitol Hill. > Update : MSNBC will break in to documentary programming for the vote with David Shuster anchoring ( after watching the Michigan/Ohio State game apparently). New Career Opportunities Daily: The best...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
One year ago tonight, Thursday, November 20 -- like today, the Thursday one week before Thanksgiving -- MSNBC ridiculously plastered “BREAKING NEWS” on-screen for video of Sarah Palin at a turkey farm just after pardoning one, running more than three minutes of video of some turkeys being slaughtered by a man in the background behind her. Palin, then just weeks off the presidential campaign...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Have a close look at the screencap [larger image after the jump]. Notice what Norah O'Donnell's holding in her left hand? Those are notes, with factoids from the 2008 presidential campaign. She's reading from them to challenge a Sarah Palin supporter who was waiting in line at the book signing yesterday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We all remember how back during the '08 campaign, MSM reporters would...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By GottaLaff This is disturbing, but sadly, not surprising: The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania , a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
This afternoon MSNBC's Tamron Hall and David Shuster reported on the news that "Unfriend" is the word of the year , as declared by the New Oxford American Dictionary. A few minutes later, after a live shot on the healthcare debate, congressional correspondent Luke Russert corrected the "Unfriend" report saying to Shuster and Hall, "the kids say 'Defriend.' Oxford Dictionary...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Gee what metaphor do you think they’re going for here ? Similar Posts:A Look Inside The McCain Campaign Bunker The Saga Of Joe The Plumber Hillary Campaigns In West Virginia: Now It’s Just Getting Pathetic Our Saudi Friends David Shuster Is An Idiot
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By GottaLaff Military commissions allow heresay as well as testimony given after having been tortured. In other words, it's meaningless. A.G. Holder claims that the Department of Justice has evidence that hasn't been revealed yet. In that regard, I've heard that, in the case of low level detainees, evidence has been sprung on the defense, heavily redacted documents that the defense had never seen....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Starting at 3:03pmET, Fox News' "Studio B" broadcast President George W. Bush 's speech from Southern Methodist University live and in its entirety. Fox was the only network to do so. This was considered by some to be the former president's first major public speech since leaving office. At 3:17pmET, MSNBC dipped in for roughly four minutes. After breaking away, David Shuster said, "The...
Wake Up America (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The disgusting creep and group of Westboro that hide their vile hatred behind the guise of "religion" are at it again and have picketing outside of the school Barack Obama's children go to. Their calendar here . The Kansas-based far-right church known for its outrageous choices of protest venues picketed outside the private school attended by first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama on Monday...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By GottaLaff Earlier today I posted about David Shuster's disgust at a group of picketers from Westboro Baptist Church outside of the Obama girls' school. Tomorrow they plan on protesting again. David Shuster said all the right things, so I guess the truth hurt these revolting bunch of vulgar maniacs' widdle feelings: But Shuster's Tweet set off an argument between the MSNBC reporter and Phelps-Roper....
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I couldn't care less about David Shuster's Twitter war with anyone. But his attempt to tar conservatives with the beliefs of the deranged haters from the Westboro Baptist Church is an outrage. The P&P family had its own little encounter with these toxic wackos yesterday outside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception; we had no idea (till we read Shuster) that we were somehow complicit...
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