Here 's this sunday's Media Nuggets
###### Bill O'Reilly Visits Troops In Baghdad, following Sean Hannity. Camp Striker dining facility becomes ‘No-Spin Zone’ - He is interviewing soldiers and Generals and visiting hospitals. All next week, he will show various interviews with commanders, soldiers & even some Iraqis with a special one-hour on the next week-end on all things about his Iraq visit.
###### Reid raids on AP - John Solomon, Associated Press' Senior Investigative Reporter (19 years in AP) was unceremoniously removed, who exposed Harry Reid's $1M Land Deal Scandal and his Abramoff connection. Reid's liberal cronies succeeded in removing him.
(Footnote:Wash.Post just hired him as it's national reporter. Whether he would continue to report Reid scandals - remains to be seen. )
###### When First Lady Laura Bush exposed NBCivil war in Iraq's biased negative coverage on Iraq, Carter intern Brian Williams tried to hide behind Iraq surrender group to defend his network on nightly news. Meanwhile, NBC's parent company GE Lost Multibillion Dollar Nuclear Reactors Deal to another American company. (Kicker: Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman helped finalising the deal.)
###### VNU, the parent of Nielsen Media Research, to cut it's workforce by about 4,100 jobs.
###### NY Post Comes to Chicago - NYPost is the early days Fox with honest & patriotic reporting.(Wish people at Fox avoid NYT & follow their sister publication for news reportage).
###### "A Journalist Who Lets His Patriotism... Get in the Way of his Work" -> Christian Science Monitor profile of Bill Roggio, worries that his readers are getting a one-sided picture if they don't follow traditional Big Media coverage.
###### Carol Iovanna & Dari Alexander are out from Fox. Access Hollywood's lead host Nancy O'Dell is pregnant & another host Billy Bush will be moved to 'fourth-hour' segment of Today show. CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta & Anderson Cooper will be regular contributors to CBS too.
###### No questioning authority! - AP Promotes Two Reporters Involved in Fake Reporting.
###### "Considered one of the most charismatic leaders of the 20th century" - Katie Couric on Fidel Castro. No wonder, her ratings struggle to catch up anywhere near other networks.
###### Liar ...Liar! - Blogger Michael Fumento catches Time Magazine's Lie.
###### NYTimes appoints former Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia CFO - as their new CFO, who testified for the prosecution against Martha Stewart.
###### Challenge to AP! - Former CNN chief Eason Jordan who admitted selling out CNN to Saddam Hussein to keep its Baghdad bureau open & was fired after he accused our Soldiers of targetting & killing journalists - is going to do "original reporting from Iraq". What Next? Dan Rather and Mary Mapes open a document analysis service? Michelle Malkin Joins & challenges - Literally!, as does Michael Yon and others.
###### NYTimes stands with - terrorist-supporting charities... and ignores well-documented facts in order to do so.
###### Paged: Matt Drudge - The Mendacity Of the Liberal Press.
Thanks! I guess I will have to watch bor this week. I had given up on him.
He obviously has fantasies of being in the same league with Hannity and Rush but guess what, you have to be a true believer not a "wannnnnabe" Bill. We spot phonies in a heartbeat.
Last week Hannity visited the troops and it was an awesome display of someone who is a true believer genuinely thanking the troops for all that they do!
Hannity was terrific in Iraq and pointed out just what our brave troops do,believe in, and give up, to fight for their country.We have the finest fighting force ever assembled now doing the job in Iraq,and last week Hannity pointed that out without making "himself" the center of attention. BOR is not a true believer, sorry Bill, won't work,no short cuts allowed.
Some thoughts along the theme of your nuggets today --
I just finished the (talking) book BIAS, by Bernard Goldberg, listening to books in lieu of talk radio these days.
He was made a pariah for 'whistle-blowing' his own fraternity - 'news' gatherers and disseminators, who live to do whistle-blowing stories on other industries and agencies, but cannot tolerate it in their own house.
He documents how the members of "MSM" always identify a conservative person or think tank, but never if the organization or person is leftwing. If fact, for years radicalrightwing was treated as one word. This is not news to us of course, I only bring it up to ask everyone to try an experiment.
When we are in dialogue with someone who denies the bias of "MSM" we need to ask them to name some groups that are to the left of the "MSM" I think the first, and possibly only reaction will be a blank stare of confusion.
Goldberg never mentions this tactic in his book, but years have passed since he went up against his peers with his charge of bias. A lot more has been spoken about it. Yet we continue to accept that right-wing is the opposite of mainstream, and as Bernie said "the only left wing that a liberal knows is on an airplane.
Hmmmm .... Interesting
Good article, but Alicia needs to find Free Republic. Much better than Lucianne.com.