Weatherman Won Over; Best NQs of 1997, Tenth Annual Awards 1. The White House got its wish: a CBS weathercaster who heard Gore's environmental pitch in October pitched the liberal global warming line in December. 2. The winners of the "Best Notable Quotables of 1997: The Tenth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting" selected by a panel of 54 leading conservatives who served as judges. 1) As MRC news analyst Steve Kaminski noticed, the Clinton- Gore gimmick of inviting meteorologists to the White House so they could hear Gore's environmental doom and gloom pitch worked with one network weather... continue reading
ABC's Labeling Disparity; Lawrence Lies; Sam's Sociology Corrections: The last CyberAlert carried the right day, but wrong date: It was the Wednesday, December 17 edition, not December 15. And MRC analyst Adam Pogach's name was misspelled. Hey, I was just one letter off and he's only worked at the MRC a few months -- it takes me at least a year to learn people's names. 1. ABC promoted a liberal group's numbers, but failed to provide a liberal label. They are not so reticent with conservatives. 2. On Bill Lann Lee ABC's language favored liberal spin as the network referred... continue reading
Entertainment Edition: Baldwin for Senate? Klink Attacks Right Today's CyberAlert is another special edition devoted to politics in entertainment. MRC entertainment analyst Melissa Caldwell put it together with input from analysts Tom Johnson and Adam Pogash. -- Brent Baker 1. Actor Alec Baldwin declared "I want to be the ferocious liberal" as he pushes campaign finance reform and looks at a Senate run. 2. ABC sit-com star Drew Carey won't be voting for Baldwin, insisting that when it comes to government, "the less the better." 3. Dick Wolf, Executive Producer of Law & Order, has used the show to promote... continue reading
Missing Cisneros; Applauding Lee; Full Gore on Kyoto The Best Notable Quotables of 1997: The Tenth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting. The judges have voted, their picks have been tabulated and the awards issue published. It mailed Friday, so subscribers should get it soon if they haven't already. It will be posted early this week on the MRC Web site. Those in the Boston area or who read a paper which picks up Don Feder's syndicated column may have already seen his column on the quotes he picked as a judge. His column on the awards ran in... continue reading
Notes Skipped by ABC; Koppel Disparages Warming Doubters 1. ABC Tuesday night ignored the newly released White House notes and NBC dismissed their relevance: "The notes don't contain much more than a few titillating details." 2. The ABC and CBS morning shows also skipped the delayed notes, but they led NBC's Today and Tim Russert considered them telling. 3. Nightline attacked the ads opposed to a global warming treaty. Ted Koppel says scientists, who don't buy the liberal mantra that man is causing warming, belong in the Flat Earth Society. 4. Letterman's "Top Ten Complaints of President Clinton's New Puppy."... continue reading
CBS Ignores Lawrence; Carlson Blames Campaign Finance Correction: By a vote of 5 (who will not receive a Christmas gift from me) to 2 (who will get a better than usual gift) the MRC news division staff decided that Friday's CyberAlert misquoted Dan Rather. The December 5 CyberAlert quoted Rather as saying "El Nino's tripling combination punch of..." The majority contends he actually declared: "El Nino's crippling combination punch of..." Reminder : "Facts Frozen Out: Network News and Global Warming," a special report released by the MRC's Free Market Project can be read at: http://mrc.org /SpecialReports/1997/frozen.asp . See the December... continue reading
Lawrence Lie Buried by CBS&NBC; Gumbel's Blast, Warming Study 1. The revelation that DNC donor Larry Lawrence never had the WWII experience that justified his waiver into Arlington Cemetery produced stories Thursday night on ABC and CNN, but not CBS or NBC. 2. Bryant Gumbel angrily denounced a law professor who opposes racial preferences that discriminate against Asians. 3. "Facts Frozen Out: Network News and Global Warming," a special report released by the MRC's Free Market Project. 1) The revelation by House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Terry Everett, during a noontime press conference, that Larry Lawrence never served in the... continue reading
No O'Leary & No Conspiracy; Reno's Image; King Rips Talk Radio 1. The evening shows all led with Reno, but ABC never mentioned O'Leary and neither CBS or NBC explained Freeh's interest in looking at a possible conspiracy. Peter Jennings whined: "No closure on this story as of yet." 2. A new fax report from the MRC details how the media built Janet Reno's reputation as a woman of integrity above politics. 3. Larry King complained about how talk radio spews "idiocy" and is full of hosts with an agenda. Just like King when he had his show. 1) Attorney... continue reading
Foreign $ Forgotten; Lister as Victim; Maher Mars Reagan 1. The Washington Post detailed another example of how the DNC captured foreign money, but the networks didn't bother reporting it. 2. Catching up on some stuff that got squeezed out of earlier CyberAlerts, only ABC reported Lister's resignation from the Army, portraying her as a victim of those opposed to women in combat. 3. Bill Maher, host of ABC's Politically Incorrect, has some very politically correct disgust for Ronald Reagan. 1) In the midst of the Arlington Cemetery flap the Washington Post broke another story about how the DNC subverted... continue reading
Turner Hires a Liberal; Whitewater Check Not Checked 1) CBS Evening News relayed the White House attack on the Arlington "smear," but the networks still ignored the story before the denial. 2) Turner picked a liberal Democrat, who pushed Clinton left on the environment, to head the foundation he created to give away $1 billion. 3) ABC, CBS and CNN have yet to air an evening story on the discovery of the Whitewater check payable to Bill Clinton. >>>> MRC Stocking Stuffer: "Team Clinton" T-shirts for just $5.00. The front of the shirts have "Team Clinton" above a drawing of... continue reading