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CyberAlert Extra Today Gave Hillary Clinton 12 Minutes to Show She Cares About Kids This morning, June 10, NBC's Today brought aboard Hillary Rodham Clinton to promote its week-long effort to help the VH1 music cable channel publicize its "Save the Music" campaign to give used instruments and money to schools for music education. Co-host Katie Couric asked Hillary about the Knicks and gave Hillary a platform to blast conservatives as "out of touch with the mainstream." The 8am ET live half hour of Today opened with over two minutes of Hillary collecting musical instruments from the crowd outside the... continue reading

"Gun Lobby" Puppets; Only FNC Noticed Richardson; CNN's McGovernite 1) ABC and NBC picked up Clinton's charge that House Republicans are "taking orders from the gun lobby." ABC devoted a story to how the NRA ominously lobbied to put "loopholes" in the Senate bill. 2) Energy Secretary Richardson condemned new lab security rules and a top Democrat castigated a Richardson deputy for pushing Clinton spin, but only FNC's Carl Cameron took note. He revealed FBI agents accused Justice officials of "deliberate incompetence." 3) Countering the Clinton spin holding Reagan and Bush as equally culpable, Investor's Business Daily determined "the vast... continue reading

O'Leary Leaked Secrets?; Lou Dobbs Quits CNN; Media Will Protect Hillary 1) All but FNC skipped Chinagate developments Tuesday night. NBC's Robert Hager highlighted how "two environmental groups warned that global warming is heating the ocean, choking off marine life..." 2) Only FNC's Carl Cameron picked up on the charge that former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary personally leaked secret nuclear weapons data to a magazine in 1995 and that Clinton plans to ease export controls on super-computers. 3) Lou Dobbs resigned Tuesday from CNN. A couple of weeks ago he battled with CNN chief and Clinton friend Rick Kaplan about... continue reading

Hot Day Means Global Warming; Giggling Over Al; Las Vegas Lost 1) A couple of hot days in New York City naturally prompted CBS to worry: "Researchers warn in the next century global warming could make these dog days a lot more common." The researcher: EDF. 2) CBS's Bob Schieffer and Dan Rather agreed that Chinese spying is serious and the Cox Report is important, but in explaining why it's not a bigger issue with the public neither acknowledged how little time and priority their shows have given it. 3) NBC's Claire Shipman giggled as she admired how an "ever... continue reading

"Hysteria" Over a "Red Menace"; NY Editor to Hillary: Run 1) CBS: Confused Broadcasting System? Sunday night 60 Minutes maintained spying and export deals helped China "upgrade their military capability across the board." Ten days ago CBS Evening News insisted it "has not resulted in any apparent modernization." 2) Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, insisting "there is no evidence they are building anything," claimed the Cox Report endeavored to build "hysteria" in order "to try to create a new Red menace." 3) More on the Friday GMA in which the Washington Post reported Clinton became "irate" at Charlie Gibson who pushed an... continue reading

CyberAlert Extra ABC's Charlie Gibson pressed President Bill Clinton from the left on gun control this morning. ABC's Good Morning America broadcast live from the White House this morning, presenting a two hour special titled "Kids & Guns: Is There a Solution?" The show dropped many ad breaks to allow more time with the Clintons. For 45 uninterrupted minutes from about 7:30am to 8:15am ET Bill and Hillary Clinton, with Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer hosting, talked in the Roosevelt Room with a group of high school students. Earlier, for most of the 7am half hour, Gibson interviewed Clinton in... continue reading

Hsing-Hsing NBC's Cold War "Symbol"; FNC Confirmed Cox Warnings 1) NBC Nightly News never followed up on the Cox Report since its last story nine days ago, but Thursday night the show focused on the dying panda: "More than just another animal in a zoo, a national symbol of a Cold War that started to end with him." 2) Confirming the Cox Report's warning, FNC's Carl Cameron learned China is not only about to test a ground based missile but also a long range submarine missile very similar to the Trident II. 3) Investor's Business Daily revealed that Los Alamos... continue reading

Hsing-Hsing Before Chung Ching; GMA's Clinton Week 1) The CBS Evening News delivered the first broadcast network China story of the week, a look at the ailing panda, Hsing-Hsing. The show has yet to report Johnny Chung's $300,000, but promised: "We'll be sure to keep you up on Hsing-Hsing's condition." 2) CBS ominously warned that global warming means more tornadoes, "more deadly hurricanes like last year's killer Mitch, even more severe swing between flooding and drought." And it kills whales. 3) "Good Morning, Clintons" ABC boasted in announcing GMA will broadcast live Friday from the White House. On Tuesday, George... continue reading

"It Only Takes One" Missile; "NBC News Hosed Me" A Talk Show Host Asserted 1) ABC, CBS and NBC stuck to airline prices and health news on Tuesday night, but FNC outlined how China obtained "better bombs through espionage, better missiles through illicit commerce" and though the Chinese arsenal is small, "it only takes one" missile. 2) CNN's Howard Kurtz used a magazine's "Red Scare" cover to illustrate how another media outlet agreed the threat from China had been exaggerated, but actually the magazine found: "The Cox Report is out, and it is frightening." 3) In contrast to CNN, FNC... continue reading

CNN: Cox Manipulated Media to Hype China Coverage; Clinton's Cover-Up 1) CNN argued the Chinese spy scandal has been overplayed: "Has the press been spoon-fed by congressional investigators?" asked Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz, suggesting: "So have the media been used to prolong, perhaps even hype the story?" 2) Chris Cox revealed on Fox News Sunday that if the committee had caved in to Clinton administration pressure "to release what we had after two months there would be nothing out." 3) Letterman's "Top Ten Signs a Guest at Your Memorial Day Barbecue is a Spy." >>> Media Bias Video Excerpts... continue reading