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Majority of Americans, Especially Republicans, Don't Trust the News Media to Be Fair
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFifty-seven percent of Americans say they do not have very much or any trust in the news media when it comes to reporting the news accurately and fairly, according to a Gallup poll conducted Sept. 13-16. Forty-three percent say they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is the fourth straight year that a majority of Americans have expressed that view. The last time a significant majority said they had confidence in the media was in the years prior to 2004, which, perhaps by no coincidence, mostly pre-dated the kind of impact that the Internet and cable news talk shows ...
Lack of ACORN Coverage Made N.Y. Times Look Partisan, Ombudsman Says
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn his Sunday column examining the paper's recent coverage, Public Editor Clark Hoyt said the New York Times was so slow in covering the ACORN story that roiled the Internet a few weeks ago that it risked looking "partisan." "For days, as more videos were posted and government authorities rushed to distance themselves from ACORN, The Times stood still," Hoyt wrote. "Its slow reflexes -- closely following its slow response to a controversy that forced the resignation of Van Jones, a White House adviser -- suggested that it has trouble dealing with stories arising from the polemical world of ...
Think Progress Accuses Unamused Jake Tapper of Being Right Wing Puppet
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyCan't we all just get along?On Saturday, I reported about a Chrysler lawyer's accusation that the White House threatened to sic the White House press corps on him. Now, Think Progress is accusing the right wing media of siccing the White House press corps, or at least one member of it, on Barack Obama.The New York Times reported on Friday, "whatever the outcome, this bit of brinkmanship - which many characterized as a game of chicken with Washington - has become yet another public relations disaster for Wall Street." But instead, this story of corporate greed has now been turned into a ...
Limbaugh-Steele Feud a Democrat-Generated Faux Controversy
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has apologized to Rush Limbaugh for his denigration of Limbaugh's radio show, as he should have. Though he is not the leader of the Republican Party, as the media and Democrats would like to portray him, Limbaugh does provide daily inspiration and education to millions of Republican voters. The national party chairman should not be thought to be against the party's most enthusiastic and influential spokesman. The apology was a good thing.That said, it is instructive to consider how and why the incident has been handled and in fact provoked ...
Mark Halperin Called Out For 'Disgusting, Pro-Obama Bias' Comments
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyTime magazine blogger and Hot Seat contributor Mark Halperin is taking sharp criticism, from Editor & Publisher's Greg Mitchell, over remarks he made at a forum on Friday. The Time.com blogger has gotten a lot of Web attention since Friday when, at a forum in L.A., he called media bias in favor of Obama all year "disgusting," the worst display of media malfeasance since the run-up to the Iraq war (which Halperin himself was a part of, he neglects to say). Here's Halperin's full quote: "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war. It was extreme bias, extreme ...
Girls, Girls, You're Both Pretty - Now Go To Bed!
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyOpinions and politics - they go together like a horse and carriage. Yet the media have set themselves a noble standard of suppressing their punditry in order to convey the news with dispassionate objectivity. A mighty task ... at which they rarely succeed. But, the worst among them now only half-heartedly pretend to even strive for such a goal. This weekend, the pitiably liberal MSNBC finally reached the tipping point, recognizing that it had so strayed into the woods of liberal hysteria that the ruse was up. Facing explosive pressure from on high at parent NBC, unrivaled lows in viewer ...
Times Op-Ed Rejection Fuels Bias Claims
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyBefore Sen. Barack Obama embarked on his world tour, which included stops in Afghanistan and Iraq, he submitted an opinion piece to The New York Times that the paper published. Why wouldn't it? An opinion piece from a presidential candidate is certainly newsworthy and draws in readers. Unless, of course, that paper happens to be The Times, and the presidential candidate happens to be the Republican nominee.Sen. John McCain submitted an opinion piece in response to Obama's, but the Times rejected it. In an e-mail to the campaign-- leaked to the Drudge Report and quickly picked up by ...
Fred Fights Fox Bias
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyAdd former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) to the huge list of people who think Fox News is biased.The former Tennessee senator got testy with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" when the newsman pointed out that conservatives including pundits Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes have been underwhelmed by his campaign. But as The Hill notes, Thompson needs some work on his trash talking.Thompson, in a firm, but measured tone, scolded Wallace: "...for you to highlight nothing but the negatives in terms of the polls and then put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I ...
Obama, Thompson Are Media Darlings
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyBarack Obama and Fred Thompson are leading their rivals when it comes to positive media coverage, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy that examined more than 1,700 news stories published or aired between January 1 and May 31. This survey is pretty useless. What may have been true in May is no longer the case in October. Neither candidate can be called a media darling today or even a favorite. Even if the media was saying today that Obama and Thompson can walk on water, does it matter? Being a ...
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