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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally announced today that he would seek the Republican nomination for President, but one would hardly know this from watching CBS’s "Early Show." Romney’s candidacy received exactly ten seconds worth of coverage, following stories on a Utah mall shooting, winter storms, and the ongoing soap opera of Anna Nicole Smith’s demise. However, on Saturday, when Illinois Senator Barack Obama announced his candidacy as a Democrat, CBS’s "Saturday Early Show" devoted 9 minutes and 9 seconds, (549 seconds) to this story, a greater than 54:1 bias.

John Edwards appeared on yesterday's "Meet the Press," and host Tim Russert questioned him to the point of overkill on Iraq (more than half the interview), which was still useful since it revealed many self contradictions in his views on the war. He also talked about his plan to raise taxes in order to create universal health care (or, Breck-care). His primary opponents, check; his poll ratings in Iowa, check...and the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain?! Yeah, check that one too. Gay marriage, the 2004 campaign, his current campaign strategy, and Barack Obama -- all covered. But what did notoriously...

I am tired of Democrats saying they are patriotic and then insulting my commander in chief... I am tired of Democrats who tell me they support me, the soldier on the ground, and then tell me the best plan to win this war is with a “phased redeployment” (liberal-speak for retreat) out of the combat zone to someplace like Okinawa. I am tired of senior officers and commanders who fight this war with more of an eye on the media than on the enemy, who desperately needs killing. I am tired of the decisions of Sergeants and Privates made in...

It was only a matter of time, I suppose, but I never dreamed that it would happen this soon. Sean McManus, President of CBS News and Sports said yesterday that gender bias is to blame for the ratings failure that has befallen the cute and perky anchor chick over at Black Rock. "I think it is a fact there are probably people, both men and women, who are perhaps uncomfortable having a woman anchor the news,” McManus told the media industry publication Broadcasting & Cable. "The way she is scrutinized, I think sometimes unfairly, quite frankly, I think a lot...

So, here is a question: Why is CBS using propaganda film originally posted on an al Qaeda website and claiming it is merely "CBS obtained" with no mention of the actual source for Lara Logan's report on The "Battle of Haifa Street"? The anti-Iraq website called Iraqslogger posted a story about how CBS reporter Lara Logan is crying that CBS seems to have spiked her "Haifa Street" story . Logan has sent out a mass email to all her friends and colleagues in the world of journalism in hopes that they will pressure CBS to show her report that has...

On a long drive home from a Indianapolis this weekend, I had the dubious pleasure of listening to a CBS news break at the top of the hour on a talk station and in one of their reports on Saturday's anti-War protests the verbiage used to report the gatherings was so slanted that it was startling and was so obviously intended to make it seem much greater than it really was that it wasn't even funny. Reporter Jim Taylor started his report saying "A nation says no to war ..." as an introduction to the story of the goings on...

(CBS/AP) Sen. Hillary Clinton finally ended all the speculation about her presidential ambitions over the weekend, declaring her candidacy on her Web site. In doing so, she instantly became the one to beat in a crowded field of wannabes. In fact, a new CBS News poll shows Clinton holding a 17-point edge over Sen. Barack Obama among Democratic voters. "It will be a great contest with a lot of talented people," Clinton said Sunday – "a lot" being the operative word. Clinton told CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Monday that she is proud of her husband's White House record...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -A comeback, a drive, a legacy. And yes - finally - Peyton Manning gets his Super Bowl trip, too. Football's most prolific quarterback put on a show for the ages Sunday, rallying the Indianapolis Colts from 18 points down and driving them 80 yards for the winning score in a wildly entertaining 38-34 victory over the New England Patriots.

Last Wednesday, President Bush gave his address to the country about “the new way forward” for Iraq, and lots of journalists—including me, of course—were in Washington to cover it. But before the Big Speech, there was the little-known Big Meeting.

One week ago, Katie sat down for a briefing at the White House, and noticed something unusual. _______________________________________________________ Last Wednesday, President Bush gave his address to the country about “the new way forward” for Iraq, and lots of journalists—including me, of course—were in Washington to cover it. But before the Big Speech, there was the little-known Big Meeting. The White House invited all the network anchors, and some cable anchors, along with the Sunday political show hosts to a meeting with unnamed VERY senior administration officials. (Obviously I know their names, but the agreement was that in order to attend...

Appearing on this morning's "Early Show," CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan lit into President Bush's Iraq plan. Harry Smith opened the exchange: "the question of the morning is, can Prime Minister Maliki's government hold up its end of the bargain?" Replied the South-African born, French-educated Logan: "That's a very good question, because most people agree that this whole plan depends on the Maliki government living up to their promises. Very, very few people in Baghdad believe that Maliki is willing or able to do this. And what you're looking at is essentially a government where all signs point to...

As CBS News’ Couric Prepares for Big Tiffany’s Birthday, Her Numbers Could Be Better, But She’s Confident—If People Don’t Like It, ‘Consider a Suppository’ By: Rebecca Dana Date: 1/15/2007 Page: 1 Katie Couric, the anchor of the CBS Evening News, was in Georgia on Friday, Jan. 5, in a car parked outside a Nathan’s hot-dog stand. It was two days before her 50th birthday, just after 1 p.m. At the moment, Ms. Couric was occupied on her cell phone, discussing the Bush administration’s claim, trotted out by the First Lady on MSNBC, that the media is overly negative about the...

CBS News is denying it, but rumors are rampant that news anchor Katie Couric needs a ratings rescue, and that veteran news executive Rick Kaplan, freshly off of his MSNBC job, is just the man being pulled in for the job, reports Page Six. CBS "Evening News" ratings under Couric, after an initial viewer curiousity bump, have dropped right back down to third place, where Schieffer and Rather had left lagged for years. Kaplan was the man at the helm at ABC News when Bill Clinton was president. He has been out at MSNBC since the summertime, when Dan Abrams...

Unlike its network rivals, CBS News did not break into its programming for a special report on former President Ford's death, instead running a printed "crawl" at the bottom of the screen with the news. CBS said Wednesday it is bringing Katie Couric home from an overseas vacation to anchor the "CBS Evening News" on Thursday and any ceremonies for Ford over the weekend. News of the 93-year-old ex-president's death broke shortly before midnight on the East Coast, and during prime time Tuesday in the West. Terry Moran, already at work on ABC News' "Nightline," anchored a special report, and...

Dear Mr. McManus: I don't have to tell you that things have changed a lot since the glory days of CBS News when it sat atop the ratings and Walter Cronkite was "the most trusted man in America." Back then there were only a handful of over-the-air broadcast channels and the Big Three networks presided over something of a shared monopoly in early evening news. TV was in its adolescence and viewers were less sophisticated about the medium. Although there were fewer gadgets (not even videotape), newscasts had more substance. Today, the mix of news and entertainment leans increasingly toward...

Katie Couric admits that her new gig as anchor of the CBS Evening News has been "a little harder than I thought it would be." "Some people out there are rooting for me to fail," Couric, 49, tells Esquire in its January issue. "You have to be unwavering in your convictions that you're doing something good, because there are a lot of circling vultures that will eat you alive." Couric points out that Esquire itself criticized her after her Sept. 5 debut. "You guys even take a shot at me," she tells the magazine. "You have something in the November...

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New York – During CBS News' 2006 Midterm election coverage viewers couldn't help but notice large amounts of confetti dropping from the ceiling, strippers massaging anchors and background staffers guzzling bottles of champagne. CBS News has declared that despite the jovial nature of the evening, they were not celebrating the Democrats overwhelming victory, Underneath Politics has learned.

The CBS television show "Two and a Half Men" has broadcast an episode featuring the womanizing main character bragging about his sexual exploits – to the tune of the traditional Christmas carol "Joy to the World" – and the leader of a Christian organization that deals with the results of rampant sexual promiscuity is upset. "In an affront to all of Christendom, the network allowed actor Charlie Sheen to change the lyrics of 'Joy to the World' into a song that could be called, 'Joy to Fornication,'" according to Douglas R. Scott Jr., the president of Life Decisions International.The television...

Katie Couric finished her first sweeps period at CBS in increasingly familiar territory: third place. At the end of November sweeps, the three network newscasts finished roughly in their customary positions, with NBC first, ABC second and CBS a distant third. NBC's "Nightly News With Brian Williams" was first in both total viewers (9.57 million) and the 25-54 demographic with a 2.4 rating/9 share. ABC's "World News With Charles Gibson" finished second in total viewers, with 8.92 million, and second in the 25-54 demo, with a 2.3 rating/9 share. CBS' "Evening News With Katie Couric" was third in total viewers...