Huang's Secrets Tuesday's newspapers brought another series of Clinton scandal revelations for the networks to avoid mentioning: -- "White House Got FBI Data on Party Donor," declared a June 10 Wall Street Journal headline. The Journal's Glenn Simpson and David Rogers revealed that before Yogesh Gandhi met with the President and donated $325,000 to the DNC, "White House aides received unfavorable information about Mr. Gandhi" from the FBI. "But after the negative information forced cancellation of the White House event...Democratic fundraisers arranged for the meeting to take place on May 13, 1996, at the Sheraton Carlton hotel, two blocks up... continue reading
Purgatory for Molinari; Higher Taxes or We Create Another Hitler CBS anchor Paula Zahn demands: "What do you think is the most insidious threat to women today: sexism or racism?" A NBC News VP urges "a period of, a cleansing if you will, a purgatory" so Susan Molinari can "jettison" her partisanship. But it's the NBC News staff that really needs a "cleansing." Al Hunt launches another mean fusillade at Burton and Gingrich. Raise taxes on the wealthy and "tame" the market or the West will face the rise of a new Hitler, argue two Chicago Tribune reporters. NBC confuses... continue reading
ABC & NBC Ignore Dead; GOP's Disastrous Disaster; Clift's Idea 1) Dead people and people who never existed contributed to the DNC. NBC ignores the news and ABC focuses on donations to the GOP. 2) ABC devotes more time to Chelsea's graduation as Bill Clinton's words evoke an emotional response from Peter Jennings. 3) After emphasizing how Republicans are delaying disaster aid, ABC discovers even conservatives are mad at House Republicans. The delay will "kill us" says one North Dakotan. 4) Eleanor Clift says sex life of Paula Jones should be probed and that the Constitution should be changed to... continue reading
Tamraz Tanked; Molinari Complaints; Top Ten on Clinton Four stories detail how the Clinton administration rewarded donors with government deals, but all the networks look the other way. CNN picks up a Huang disclosure from a week earlier. Journalists indignant over Molinari, but they fail to acknowledge large number of liberals in more influential posts. Letterman's "Top Ten Other Things President Clinton Won't Apologize For." 1) Four Clinton scandal revelations suggesting the Clinton team rewarded donors with big government deals have broken in print outlets since Saturday, but the networks haven't bothered to report any of them. -- "Commerce Kept... continue reading
Special flash notice edition Two quick items : 1) "Media Revolving Door Spins Faster for Liberals," an opinion piece by the Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell and Brent Baker, appears in today's Wall Street Journal. In the wake of much media indignation over Susan Molinari's jump to CBS News, the article demonstrates how many more liberals have made the jump without generating concern from journalists. And, the liberal political operatives hold key executive positions with control over all of a network, not just one show. 2) The May issues of MediaWatch and MediaNomics are now available on the MRC's... continue reading
Re-writing Reaganomics; FNC Beats MSNBC Reporters claim that Reaganomics reduced tax revenue as the cuts benefited the rich. Facts show otherwise. The Fox News Channel beats MSNBC, but the ratings for both are puny compared to ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. 1) Reporters continue to re-write the history of the 1980s to match the liberal view that Reaganomics made the rich richer and the poor poorer as tax cuts combined with defense hikes to make the deficit soar. Here are two examples and how they measure up to the facts. -- Back on the May 4 Sunday Journal on C-SPAN,... continue reading
Special Entertainment Edition. "F*** Reagan" "F*** you and f*** your father!" an actor yelled at Michael Reagan during a taping of Politically Incorrect. The networks have ignored calls to restore the family hour. Their fall schedules move into the family hour shows with adult- oriented sex jokes and language. On the X-Files, the "military-industrial" complex is blamed for a conspiracy to fool the public and give cancer to a FBI agent. Murphy Brown will be more political next season, but another CBS show included a character who insisted: "Dan Quayle had a point." 1) The May 20 edition of ABC's... continue reading
MRC on CNN; Clinton & Blair Both to Center? MRC Chairman to appear on CNN on Sunday to debate media coverage of the CIA/cocaine conspiracy. NBC and CBS contend that Clinton and Blair "took their political parties from the left to the center." The Weekly Standard proves only one did. 1) L. Brent Bozell, Chairman of the Media Research Center, will appear Sunday on CNN's Both Sides with Jesse Jackson. The topic: media coverage of the CIA-crack conspiracy theory promoted in a San Jose Mercury News series last summer of which the editor of the paper earlier this month admitted... continue reading
YES! with Marv; Skipping Huang; More Liberals Than Molinari's Networks won't say what Clinton supposedly did, but they aren't so reticent when it comes to Marv Albert. Republicans accept two legal donations. CNN reports. John Huang raises money illegally while at Commerce. CNN ignores. Susan Molinari's move to CBS upsets journalists, but they have not expressed such concern for the larger list of liberal revolvers. In class-envy mode Dan Rather insists a capital gains tax will benefit the wealthy, but he ignores how most payers are middle class. 1) As illustrated in the May 28 CyberAlert, the networks refused to... continue reading
Avoiding Clinton's Demand; Conservative Basher; Memorial Priorities All the networks led with Paula Jones, but none told what she accused Clinton of demanding. Only NBC mentioned how insurance is paying for his defense, but the American Spectator had much more. Tonight on PBS: a series from a man who considers Time magazine "fascist" and thinks that conservatives will "depress the quality of cultural and educational life for everyone." ABC scolds public for forgetting the reason for Memorial Day, but they lead with....weekend movie box office numbers. 1) The Supreme Court decision that a President cannot avoid a lawsuit brought for... continue reading