Fox News was the #2 network in all of primetime cable last week in total viewers. MSNBC was #25, CNN was #31, and HLN was #36. In total day, FNC was #4, CNN was #27, MSNBC was #32, and HLN was #35. You can see the full rankings for the top 30 below.
via Cable Network Rankings: FNC #2, MSNBC #25, CNN #31, HLN #36 in Prime - mediabistro.com: TVNewser.
ABC News and investigative reporter Brian Ross have been delivering the most prominent television reports on Toyota’s recent electronic acceleration system issues. Today, Toyota put on a full demonstration and put out a press release criticizing a specific ABC News report involving professor David Gilbert:
via Toyota Goes After ABC News Report - mediabistro.com: TVNewser.
President Barack Obama launched a vigorous defense of his economic agenda Wednesday, rejecting critics who call his policies “socialism” and insisting he aims to boost U.S. competitiveness abroad.
Speaking to the Business Roundtable, which groups some of the country’s top chief executives, Obama called for support of his administration’s efforts to overhaul financial regulation and create jobs.
via Obama Rejects Criticism of Agenda as ‘Socialism’ - CNBC.
ABC News has begun the process of eliminating 300 to 400 positions at the news division by asking employees to participate in a buyout of their services.
In a move that has been rumored for weeks, and coming on the heels of layoffs at CBS News, ABC’s cuts are a combination of union and non-union jobs affecting all areas of ABC News.
I don’t even think when they are actually dead and gone, they will realize why they are dead and gone.
via Massive Cuts at ABC News; 300-400 Positions to be Eliminated - mediabistro.com: TVNewser.
So anyone with a pulse saw the Austin plane crash for what it was–an ugly event caused by a bitter weirdo. And nearly everyone was thankful it didn’t turn out worse.
But I guess Washington Post contributor, Jonathan Capehart, is pulse-less. After reading Joseph Stack’s suicide note, J.C. wrote, “I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we’re hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.”
Shari Anne Brill has long been considered one of the leading media researchers in the industry. The oft-quoted executive recently left Carat, marking the latest exit of a veteran researcher from an ad agency. But the departure hasn’t stopped Brill from forming strong opinions about the broadcast networks, the future of advertising-based businesses and why Howard Stern isn’t right for “American Idol.”
THR: What about CNN? Is there any way to overtake Fox News?
Brill: Smarter people need to be having more kids. I don’t know how else you can overcome it.
I am sure if I were smart enough, I would be insulted.
The State Department has refused to answer basic questions about an accident that took place in Washington on Wednesday night, in which a U.S. Diplomatic Security Service vehicle struck Daily Caller employee Sean Medlock as he was crossing the street.
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This just really pisses me off to no end.
I can only hope that with the simply post from Glenn Reynolds blog, that this will begin the total collapse of the fifth column that is the main stream media.
Maybe then, it can rebuild and get back to the job it is suppose to be doing.
Well it seems that Robert Novak might have a clue as to where.
Published reports that Fred Thompson soon will withdraw from the Republican presidential contest and endorse Sen. John McCain have been traced in part to Mitt Romney’s campaign, trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson.
If this is the case, it would be nothing unusual. If you can’t beat them far and square, some candidates resort to knife in the back tactics like this.
This of course would not be the first time the Politico was involved in shady reporting for the sake of politics.
Don Surber proves the point in his own special way.
Don is such a good communicator of ideas, he is starting to get link by Gleen Reynolds on a regular basis.
…but I think the media is for thinking he and his administration is.
It has been clear from the very beginning, even before he was sworn in, that the media was doing every thing they could to make Bush and his administration look incompetent. From his very election that they still see as illegitimate. How he handled 9-11, the aftermath, The Afghan War, The Iraq War, Katrina, the floods, the fires, the everything. I think quite the opposite has taken place. Just look at how much the media has lost in reputation since 2000.
From the beginning I think Bush realized the media was never going to be on his side. That no matter what he said or what he did, the media had an agenda and they were going to stick to it. Bush could have brought about world peace. The media would find away to fault him for it on in the very least not give him credit.
So I think when history is written by the historians long after I am gone. It will finally be realized that this was a time of a great leader and how he contributed to a revolution in the world and in the media. A media that was so corrupt on perceived power it brought about their down fall and the birth of a new media that was controlled by everyone and no one.
Source: Mismanaging the Infowar
Today the Ol’ Gray Bitch reported good news out of Iraq. Begrudgingly.
Today the Loons on the Left are flopping all over themselves denying it.
Today the Ol’ Crotchety Marine, Murtha says we can’t win.
Just a typical day on the Left.
As film makers try to portray the Iraq War in the way they see it. America as the bad guys and the enemy we face as the good guys. These films will continue to fail. Probably the only place these films will do well is with our enemy or in countries who are hostile with our success.
Plenty of great heroic stories have come out of this conflict. Unfortunately these heroic stories do no fit these film makers misguided agendas. Every was in history has had ugly moments, just as every family has skeletons. Only the sick and twisted would prefer to dwell on the ugly parts as opposed to put it behind them and accentuate the positive.
Of course it will only take one good movie to portray a heroic story, of which there are many, and then greedy Hollywood will be all over it to cash in on it. The one true moral Hollywood has, is whatever makes them the most little green rectangles.
Source: Hollywood is casualty of war as movie-goers shun Iraq films
…comes out of the Closet that is. Well starting to anyway. I think it’s great. They will be better for it.
I still won’t be watching, but I will have a greater respect for them admitting their bias instead of trying to hide behind a false one.
If your main source of news comes from the mainstream media once a day every day, you may miss this bit of news.
As the media did with Katrina and continue to do with many other stories, they continue to get it wrong and fail at some of their most basic responsibilities.
Jena, La. - By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they’ve all heard the story of the “Jena 6.” White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics.
There’s just one problem: The media got most of the basics wrong. In fact, I have never before witnessed such a disgrace in professional journalism. Myths replaced facts, and journalists abdicated their solemn duty to investigate every claim because they were seduced by a powerfully appealing but false narrative of racial injustice.
I should know. I live in Jena. My wife has taught at Jena High School for many years. And most important, I am probably the only reporter who has covered these events from the very beginning.
So no surprises here, just stating it for the record. Just add it to the list of reasons not to trust the mainstream for anything.
I don’t even trust this guy and that he got this right.
Well today was the closing of the auction of the Harry Reid Smear Letter. The winning bid was $2,100,100 and Rush Limbaugh match for over $4.2 million for The Marine Corps and Law Enforcement Foundation. That is unbelievable!
What is even more unbelievable is that the scum politician Harry Reid tried to nudge his way in to get some credit for it all.
How dare you even come close to even giving the democrats credit for the Harry Reid Smear Letter that Rush Limbaugh turned into Gold for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Not only did you give then full credit you did not even mention the fact Rush matched the contribution making a total contribution of 4.2 million dollars.
Rush is going to have your ASS come Monday.
SHAME ON YOU!!!
Make you BURN for this.
I heard Dennis Miller talking about this the other day on the radio. The Mission Accomplished thing aboard the aircraft carrier that the President appeared in front of. The one that the democrats and the media made such a big deal out of. And continued to harp on.
This whole thing was was intended to express the mission was accomplished for the sailors aboard the ship, not what the democrats and their willing accomplices in the media tried to make it. That the War in Iraq was accomplished. Even though President Bush made it clear we still had a long hard slog to finish the job.
I can only hope that the media will one day look back on this with shame. I am not holding my breath though.
That it the way the headline should have read from al Reuters in that Congress’ rating was lower.
Voters unhappy with Bush and Congress
But you really can’t expect any better from al Reuters can you.
Today Fox Business Network launch and the game is on.
Inside Cable News has many posts on the day that was.
It seems that the Fairness Doctrine was and could be again, everything Rush Limbaugh has been saying about for sometime now.
Compared to the history of why it was implemented (to make it too costly for radio stations to allow right wing hosts to continue attacks against the democrats) those are the exact same reasons the democrats are trying to reimpose it again. To silence to right wings most effective method of communicating the other side of the story that the mainstream media will not tell you.
Read through this USA Today article and see if the party affiliation comes up even once.
New Orleans corruption cases multiply
Remember, if the party affiliation is not mentioned, assume they were democrats.
h/t: PrairiePundit
How can you tell a war is going great under the leadership of a Republican President?
You stop hearing about it on the TV News Show.
US military deaths in Iraq lowest in 14 months
US military losses in Iraq for September stood at 70 on Sunday, the lowest monthly figure since July last year, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
The figure also marks the fourth consecutive drop in the monthly death toll following a high of 121 in May. June saw 93 deaths, July 82 and August 79. The monthly toll in July 2006 was 53.
Two US soldiers were killed on Saturday in separate incidents, pushing the overall toll of American losses since the March 2003 invasion to 3,801.
Why do they always have to find a downer to through in every story. You play with fire, you get burn. You fight in war and some end up getting hurt or even worse.
When all of this is looked back on by an honest historians eye, one of the things that will be found is the extremely low death rate of this war for the soldiers. The evidence is there, you just won’t hear the media reporting it.
…and just read the news.
I don’t want to know what you think and what you have to say. Just read the news, because you are nothing more than a news reader.
From the Examiner: Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather
Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS “Evening News” anchor Katie Couric pulled back the curtain on her personal views of both the war in Iraq and former “Evening News” anchor Dan Rather.
“Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of the rationale of this war,” said Couric, adding that it is “pretty much accepted” that the war in Iraq was a mistake.
Hey Katie, you don’t speak for me. I do not feel I was misled in terms of the rationale of this war. I do feel that you and your cohorts in the media have been trying to twist the truth to make that true, but just because that is what you believe does not make it so.
“I’ve never understood why [invading Iraq] was so high on the administration’s agenda when terrorism was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that [Iraq] had no true connection with al Qaeda.”
You never understood because you may be an idiot. Sorry, buy you can have all of the education in the world and know everything about everything. It still does not prevent you from being an idiot.
You are a grossly over paid news reader. Read the news and shut the hell up.
Ever wrote a story and provided the full context.
Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark
In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Bush said former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible for a unifying leader to emerge and stop the sectarian violence that has engulfed the Middle Eastern nation.
“I heard somebody say, Where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas,” Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
So for clarification on what this is all about, maybe al Reuters would ask advice from a terrific blogger, Captain Ed.
It has become apparent that some journalists covering President Bush either have a learning disability or work extra hard to twist his words until the reporters turn into novelists. The latest to prove this theory correct works for Reuters, which sent out a story that claimed George Bush thought that Nelson Mandela had died, when in fact Bush used an analogy that clearly sailed over Reuters’ head.
Well good luck with that. He will forever be known for being an idiot and nothing is going to change that.
This will certainly breath new life to Rathergate.com. That’s a good thing.
Dan Rather Files Lawsuit Against CBS
Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a “scapegoat” for a discredited story about President Bush’s National Guard service.
The 75-year-old Rather, whose final months were clouded by controversy over the report, says the complaint stems from “CBS’ intentional mishandling” of the aftermath of the story.
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, also names CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves, Viacom Inc., Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward. (At the time Viacom Inc. owned CBS. But Viacom and CBS Corp. split into two different companies in January 2006.)
Rather, the former anchorman of the “CBS Evening News,” is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages.
CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said: “These complaints are old news, and this lawsuit is without merit.”
Dan Rather is old news and is without merit as well.
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