Nets Never Touched Arlington; But Some Admit Believability 1) The White House scolded the media for highlighting the Arlington allegation, but total broadcast network time totaled 18 seconds. CNN ran a story, but it emphasized doubts. 2) Cokie Roberts and Susan Page acknowledged that given all the White House lies it was reasonable to buy the Arlington story. 3) Margaret Carlson insisted that the press is "addicted to scandal," but the networks haven't picked up on what the latest videotapes show related to Hubbell and to the Indian casino. >>>> MRC in the Wall Street Journal. Friday's (November 21) Journal... continue reading
Arlington Buried; Babies Before Baghdad; No Liberal Teamster Tie 1) The Arlington Cemetery has Washington abuzz. Papers are running stories. McCurry is lashing out in anger. Talk radio is talking about it. Local TV news is leading with it. One gap: Network TV. 2) Babies Beat Baghdad. Three networks led with the sextuplets Wednesday night. CBS gave 12 times more time over the past week to Nixon's 25 year-old tapes than to any Clinton scandal. 3) The networks missed another hook for the Democratic involvement in money-laundering with the Teamsters. >>>> This Just Into the CyberAlert Newsroom: CNN President Rick... continue reading
Entertainment Edition: Touched by the Left; Abortion Required Today, another examination of politics in television entertainment put together with the help of MRC entertainment analyst Melissa Caldwell. -- Brent Baker 1. The CBS family drama Touched by an Angel takes up for the Hollywood Left. "Joe McCarthy won, and God lost" as "fear of communism shattered a lot of lives." 2. Murphy Brown moves from marijuana to Arianna Huffington. 3. ABC's The Practice puts the firm's lawyers on the pro-life side, against the wishes of a pregnant woman. 4. Aaron Spelling's company tells a Melrose Place actress to get an... continue reading
Only CBS (Barely) Concerned About China $; Arctic Angles 1. A report that a Democratic donor is a Chinese operative ignored by all but CBS; Chung skipped by all the broadcast networks and Gennifer Flowers' deposition noted by ABC and CNN. NBC ignored all. 2. China boasted that it thwarted Thompson. Friday night the nets showed how by refusing to report evidence of Chinese activity. 3. A study of arctic ice proved that global warming began in 1840. Or is caused by modern industry. It depends what newspaper you read. 1) A busy news day on the Clinton scandal front... continue reading
Chung Chopped Off; Jones' Backers; Five Forgotten Facts 1. Johnny Chung hot for Hillary? ABC, CBS and NBC ignored Maggie Williams' testimony to the House committee. ABC more concerned about baldness and CBS about the birth rate for sea turtles. 2. Wednesday night CBS and NBC skipped Clinton and Gore interviews with the FBI; ABC focused on conservatives behind Paula Jones. 3. The MRC's Free Market Project has just published a special report titled "The Forgetten Five: Important Economic Facts Missing in the News." 1) Thursday night the broadcast networks and CNN's World Today all led with multiple stories on... continue reading
Au Pair Before War; NBC Picks Up Whitewater Check; Harsh to Hersh You Read It Here First: This week's issues (November 17 cover dates) of U.S. News & World Report and the Weekly Standard include stories on the plight of conservative Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby. The November 4 CyberAlert detailed how the newspaper's ombudsman had denounced him for daring to cross the PC line on gay rights. Correction: The November 7 and 10 CyberAlerts reported that no broadcast network had touched the story of the just-found Whitewater check payable to Bill Clinton. In fact, as reported in the MRC's... continue reading
CBS Blamed a Crime Victim; Clinton Absolved, But Reagan Blamed Corrections: The November 7 CyberAlert misspelled the name of Clinton's nominee for the civil rights chief slot at the Justice Department. It's Bill Lann Lee, not Bill Lan Lee. The November 6 CyberAlert referred to Paul Harris as "the first black Republican elected to the Virginia House of Delegates since the 1870s." Actually, it's only been 106 years -- since 1891. 1. Nothing on House hearing on Friday, nor on the Whitewater bank check. But Today interviewed the San Diego Chicken. 2. A man in Metarie, Louisiana shot a carjacker... continue reading
Praising Bill Lan Lee; X-Files on the Military's Cold War Hoax Nets go three for three: Nothing on Gore and Molten Metal, House hearings or discovery of a Whitewater check payable to Bill Clinton. ABC paints Clinton's civil rights nominee, Bill Lan Lee, as a victim of Republicans who care more about politics than doing right. Fox's X-Files delivered a left-wing history lesson about the military scam that fooled people into funding the Cold War. 20/20 would not ever interview Marv Albert insisted Hugh Downs a few weeks ago. Guess who is on tonight? 1) Whether it involves the Vice... continue reading
Election Spinning; Clinton Got Best Press on Fundraising Clinton "tough" on Saddam Hussein said Tom Brokaw, but Dan Rather led by insisting Clinton made a "concession." Election coverage: Houston avoided "Redneckville" tag by keeping set-asides. So says ABC. Anti-tax or pro-status quo? Ann Compton wanted it both ways. Today attacked a black Republican for supporting welfare reform after being raised in public housing. Two studies show lack of network interest in fundraising. Bill Clinton and John Huang get more positive press than Fred Thompson. 1) The CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News led Wednesday with the unfolding Iraq story,... continue reading
Special Entertainment Edition: TV's Liberal Advocacy ABC's politically correct, feminist-approved tooth fairy. Ellen moves from just showing gays as no different than anyone else to using her sit-com to push liberal policies. Ed Asner raises money for Cuba. 1) Political Correctness in the Wonderful World of Disney? On October 5 the 7pm ET Wonderful World of Disney on ABC offered a politically correct, feminized view of the tooth fairy. In the made-for-TV movie Toothless, Katherine, a dentist, gets into an accident and is sent to limbo, where she must successfully complete a "community service" in order to go to heaven,... continue reading