Sex Slant Against Starr; Pruning Trie's Story; Where's Brown? Look for an appearance soon on CNN's Showbiz Today by the MRC's Tim Lamer in a story on how businessmen are portrayed on TV. Showbiz Today airs twice daily at 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT and again at 12:30am ET/9:30pm PT. To read the Businessmen Behaving Badly study from the MRC's Free Market Project, go to: http://www.freemarketproject.org/ NBC picked up the story on Starr trying to locate witnesses, but loaded its piece with Clintonites who attack Starr's "witch hunt." Tom Brokaw talked to Charlie Trie and relayed without skepticism Trie's denials of any... continue reading
Fewer Conservative Journalists; Disney Appeases Liberals More budget balderdash about imaginary "cuts." An ABC e-mail suggests likely future GMA host Elizabeth Vargas has quite an ego, demanding an on-scene hair stylist and expecting everyone to accommodate her late arrivals. The number of conservatives in newsrooms fell by a third between 1986 and 1996 according to a national poll of journalists. Disney may resist conservative calls for programming changes, but they fired a conservative talk host so as to appease liberals. 1) Misleading Headline of the Week, caught by MRC news analyst Clay Waters -- from a June 24 AP story... continue reading
Jumping on Jones; Blaming Capitalism for Chinese Oppression If it hurts Jones it's germane. NBC and CNN ignored Stuart Taylor last fall but jump on his story this week. CBS says it's "no coincidence" that Jones' lawyers announced questions for Clinton just as he's "being presidential." Dan Rather blames Beijing protests on too much capitalism and sympathizes with the difficulties faced by China's dictators. In his PBS series Robert Hughes noted that Reagan filled the "country with oceans of borrowed money," but on the other hand "his economic policies created the art boom of the 1980s." 1) It took NBC's... continue reading
Brown Blackout; If Only McGovern Won; Russert Sticks Left Hear Tim Lamer, Director of the MRC's Free Market Project, discuss the MRC's Businessmen Behaving Badly study. He'll appear on Mary Matalin's syndicated CBS Talk Radio Network show in the 4pm ET (3pm CT, 2pm MT, 1pm PT) half hour on Monday, June 23. That's the second hour of Matalin's show which airs live from 3 to 6pm ET, so adjust appropriately if she's heard in your market on delay. For an affiliate list go to: http://www.cbsradio.com/ MM/affiliate.html (In Washington, DC, for instance, Lamer will be heard from 8:05 to 8:30pm... continue reading
Everyone Ignores Brown Revelations; Reporter Backs Quotas Rest of media ignore Nolanda Hill's allegations against Ron Brown as aired on ABC's Prime Time Live. Even ABC failed to pursue the revelations as neither GMA or World News Tonight mentioned them. If affirmative action means employing quotas, that's okay with Gannett's Deborah Mathis. Bias blast from the past. NBC News labels Gerald Ford as "extremely conservative." 1) As the June 19 CyberAlert predicted might happen, the rest of the media failed to pick up on Wednesday's Prime Time Live story by Brian Ross relaying the explosive charges about Ron Brown by... continue reading
Scoop on Ron Brown; Today's Double Standard on David Brock Ron Brown intimate Nolanda Hill tells ABC that Brown did cocaine, only fear of arrest by FBI prevented him from accepting payoff by Vietnam, and she paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars from company earnings for which he put up no investment. Today gives David Brock a platform to blast conservatives, a forum he didn't get when Anita Hill and liberals were his target. ABC and NBC offer viewers hormone studies and UFO sightings, not politics. 1) Wednesday night's Prime Time Live featured a story from Brian Ross, really... continue reading
PBS Claims Scandals Overplayed; CBS Denounces Talk Radio The latest four scandal developments ignored by the networks: Hillary Clinton to be subpoenaed on the FBI files; Trie gets money from China; Temple donors reimbursed; Tamraz detained. PBS meanwhile contends that the networks have overplayed the Clinton fundraising scandals. That's right, overplayed. In the midst of laudatory questions to Bill Clinton, Charles Osgood calls talk radio an impediment to racial understanding: "It's not always very constructive." Clinton agrees. NBC's Gwen Ifill tells Clinton that both his critics and supporters think he's "abandoning minorities and the poor." 1) The Friday and Saturday... continue reading
Racial Imbalance; Businessmen as Murders; Letterman's Top Ten Though whites will still make up over 50 percent of the population in 2050, CBS claims "there will be no majority race." Welfare reform and the balanced budget bill all impede the best way to improve the racial climate: more spending. So says Ken Bode. If test scores deny certain minorities the chance for law school, an ABC News story contended, then only Whites and Asians should be admitted based upon them. The MRC's Free Market Project releases a new study of prime time which documents how "TV businessmen commit more crimes... continue reading
Better Late Than Never: CBS & NBC on Fundraising The CBS Evening News raised the charge that John Huang passed along secret info, but CBS quickly dropped the story. NBC Nightly News aired its first fundraising scandal story in three weeks, but it mostly relayed what newspapers reported weeks ago. Yet in one case that's still sooner than ABC or CBS. 1) As relayed in the June 11 CyberAlert, on June 10 the New York Daily News reported: "U.S. intelligence officials have told the White House and Congress they've collected evidence that Democratic money man John Huang passed classified trade... continue reading
CBS Delivers Disaster Aid to Dems; Clinton a Great Father In typical one-sided report, CBS insisted that everything was fine with disaster bill until "the Republicans tacked on some other provisions they knew the White House did not want." To CNN French racists and House conservatives who "shut down" the government are both "extremists" that voters rejected. Forget sexual harassment, how well Chelsea turned out is "a better measure" of the man, Margaret Carlson contended. 1) The networks continue to forward the White House spin on the congressional-White House battle over the disaster relief bill. The June 9 CyberAlert described... continue reading