Monthly Archives: October 2011

Afghan War: NBC Lets the Generals Do the Talking

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

NBC Nightly News (10/7/11) marked the 10th anniversary of the Afghan War on October 7 with a segment that linked the war to the Occupy Wall Street protests. As anchor Brian Williams put it in the introduction: Tonight protesters remain … Continue reading →

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David Gregory: Demonizing Banks Is Dangerous

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory, interviewing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Sunday (10/10/11): GREGORY: What's going on in the streets of Occupy Wall Street? EMANUEL: Yeah. GREGORY: Complaining about the unfairness, railing against Wall Street. The president has … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, NBC, protest | Tagged , , | 16 Comments

ABC Interviews OWS Activist–and Media Critic

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

ABC's This Week (10/10/11) had a normally tilted panel on Sunday talking about, among other things, Occupy Wall Street. The show had three different types of conservatives (former Bush adviser Matthew Dowd, fixture George Will and columnist Peggy Noonan) along … Continue reading →

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David Brooks Gets Occupy Wall Street and Al-Qaeda in Same Sentence

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Peter Hart

New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a tedious column today (10/11/11) about how the real radicals are the centrists, not the Wall Street occupiers. (Read Dean Baker to see what Brooks is getting wrong.) But this jumped out at … Continue reading →

Posted in New York Times, protest | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

NYT Finds the Guy Who Wants You to Cut His Jobless Benefits

Posted on 10/10/2011 by Jim Naureckas

Leave it to the New York Times (10/7/11) to find a guy collecting unemployment who opposes the extension of unemployment benefits. He's "Dan Tolleson, a researcher and writer with a Ph.D. in politics…whose last good job was working for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, New York Times, Polling | Tagged , | 11 Comments

You Can't Take Politics Out of the Public Broadcasting Debate

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Janine Jackson

In the When Will They Learn? department, incoming National Public Radio president Gary Knell seems to suffer from the same misunderstanding that has plagued public broadcasting executives for years. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik reports that Knell says he hopes … Continue reading →

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Is Glenn Beck Back at Fox News Channel?

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Peter Hart

It sounded like it, but it was just Bill O'Reilly channeling Beck's Soros/MoveOn/Big Labor paranoia, minus the chalkboard: On Wednesday in New York City, there was another far-left demonstration as a bunch of people marched on Wall Street. Why? We … Continue reading →

Posted in Fox News, Labor, protest, Taxes | Tagged , , , , | 15 Comments

Tom Friedman's Chris Christie Crush Crumbles

Posted on 10/05/2011 by Peter Hart

Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't running for president after all. This is bad news for the journalists who seemed so eager to promote his candidacy, but also for establishment pundits like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Barack Obama, Budget, Media Criticism | Tagged , , | 11 Comments

Erin Burnett Hears the Critics–But Still Misses the Point

Posted on 10/05/2011 by Peter Hart

Last night (10/4/11) CNN host Erin Burnett noted that her fact check of the Occupy Wall Street protests had drawn some criticism. But she still doesn't seem to get it. "Well, our story got noted documentarian Michael Moore, who watched … Continue reading →

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NYT Biz Writer Checks Out Occupy Wall Street–Based on CEO's Worries

Posted on 10/04/2011 by Peter Hart

New York Times business writer Andrew Ross Sorkin has been criticized for being too chummy with the Wall Street tycoons he's supposed to be covering. Today he has a piece in the Times (10/4/11) about Occupy Wall Street–which he's decided … Continue reading →

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Action Alert: Factchecking CNN's Occupy Wall Street Factcheck

Posted on 10/04/2011 by Jim Naureckas

CNN's newest show–OutFront, featuring Erin Burnett–did a "factcheck" of the protest in Lower Manhattan that was long on attitude and short on accuracy. If you'd like the network to take another look, see FAIR's latest Action Alert. Please leave copies … Continue reading →

Posted in CNN, Economy, Media Activism, protest | Tagged , | 51 Comments

Whitewashing the Blackout of Occupy Wall Street

Posted on 10/04/2011 by Jim Naureckas

I checked out a post from the Web-based publication Capital (9/28/11) about media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest because CJR (9/29/11) told me it was a "smart post" that "crunched the numbers" and showed "how there really is … Continue reading →

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New CNN Host a Rush Limbaugh Favorite

Posted on 10/03/2011 by Peter Hart

A full-page ad in USA Today reminded me that today is the debut of Erin Burnett's CNN show OutFront. Burnett gained a following at CNBC, and came to the attention of many conservatives with a report on the Today show … Continue reading →

Posted in CNN, Economy, Taxes | Tagged , | 22 Comments

Chris Christie Doesn't Say He's NOT Running for President!

Posted on 10/03/2011 by Peter Hart

The New York Times had a headline on Saturday that read, "Imagining a Christie Campaign for President." That seems appropriate–if we're talking about how it's the corporate media doing the imagining. On ABC's This Week (10/2/11), Jonathan Karl announced that … Continue reading →

Posted in ABC, Election, NBC, New York Times | Tagged , , , | 10 Comments