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If you ever wonder why politics in the State of Illinois is such a bucket of worms, you need look no further than the shot a CBS Chicago bureau producer fired at Republican US Senate nominee, Mark Kirk the other day. Said CBS producer, Ed Marshall told Kirk in front of a live mike; "Channel 2's made a decision. We're really not going to cover the Senate race if it consistently, only in your terms, is about Broadway Bank. The bank's been taken over by the government, Alexi's been pilloried. Tell me: what is your campaign going forward? What are...

Michael Wolff: CNN + CBS = Less Than Zero Michael Wolff May. 7, 2010, 10:00 AM Bill Carter, the New York Times’ hoary television reporter, in his story the other day about partnership talks between CNN and CBS, treated both networks as though they were august news organizations, instead of ruined artifacts of a former age. Carter’s is yet another an example of the illusion the news media somehow successfully maintains about itself—about its importance and permanence and, even, the awe with which it is regarded—in the face of all evidence to the contrary. As it happens, CBS—“once the home...

Comedy Central might censor every image of the Prophet Muhammad on "South Park," yet the network is developing a whole animated series around Jesus Christ. Jesus-south-park As part of the network's upfront presentation to advertisers (full slate here), the network is set to announce "JC," a half-hour show about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father" and live a regular life in New York City. In the show, God is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ, "the ultimate fish out of water," tries to adjust to life in the big city. "In general,...

The Chicago way I suppose....in politics and in the media. Check out some of the stories the CBS station in Chicago did on the Abramoff story and his connections to the GOP a few years back. DeLay Tried, Failed To Aid Abramoff ClientVanity Fair: Bush Joked With AbramoffGOP Politicians Dump Abramoff DonationsTop Lobbyist Abramoff Makes A DealIn one story they write: His ties to GOP congressional leaders and the White House pose a particular problem for Republicans. More here. All legitimate stories about a topic that should be covered by the media. But now a story about a Democrat candidate...

A new poll conducted by CBS News and The New York Times has found that 77% of Catholics who attend Mass weekly say that “the Vatican’s handling of recent child sex abuse reports” has had no effect on how they “feel about the Catholic Church.” An additional 12% of practicing Catholics say that they have a more positive feeling about the Church as a result of the Vatican’s handling of the scandals. The survey of 1,079 adults was conducted between April 28 and May 2. Results were released on May 4. 88% of Catholics-- practicing and non-practicing-- report that the...

Should the U.S. abandon efforts to increase offshore oil drilling?

In her "notebook" last evening, CBS' Katie Couric went after anonymous online "trolls and haters" in support of civility in website comment sections. Video below:

I don't post many vanities, so I hope folks won't be too hard on me for this. I don't watch television. Sports, just a little NFL, but nothing else. I don't have cable. And I definitely don't watch news, morning, evening or night. Not CBS, not NBC, not ABC, not even Fox. My wife and I happened to be in Phoenix last Friday (4/23) where there was a demonstration against the new illegal immigration legislation. I watched some of the news, because we were in a hotel room with cable and a large LCD, and they showed images of the...

The NCAA plans to expand the men's basketball tournament from 65 to 68 teams beginning next year and announced a new, $10.8 billion broadcasting deal with CBS and Turner Broadcasting on Thursday that will allow every game to be shown live for the first time. The three-team expansion is much more modest than 80- and 96-team proposals the NCAA outlined just a few weeks ago at the Final Four. The move coincides with the new, 14-year broadcasting arrangement that interim NCAA president Jim Isch said will provide an average of $740 million to its conferences and schools each year. The...

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, "mainstream" media confused the public over whether Obama ever released any real proof of his claim to being born in Hawaii. The confusion continues. Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on February 20, 2009 that "The Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." But Alter lied, since "the Obama campaign" never "actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." Remarkably, no hospital in Hawaii yet lays definitive claim to be the birthplace of the sitting President. .. On the FactCheck.org website, the claim...

The Columbia Journalism Review just published an article concerning how CBS smeared Chevron (NYSE: CVX) in its May 3, 2009 expose. This and news from the U.S. Jesuit Conference concerning San Ramon-CA based Chevron’s new policy document on human rights, crafted over the past five years in dialog with multiple “social justice” communities, paints a much different picture that frothing leftists and enviro-whackos in Richmond and worldwide generally paint about evil oil companies. 60 Minutes leads the segment by showing a polluted well that wasn’t Chevron’s responsibility to clean and which Chevron says is not polluted by petroleum at all,...

The "Discredit Campaign" has started. It is in the form of some extremely biased, leading "survey". I was coming home and listening the last 30 or so mins of Hannity, who said the campaign to discredit has started...so, I enter my house and my wife proceeds to tell me about a 20 minute survey she did for the national CBS News. This was really biased and asked who's fault the economy is, what is your biggest issue, and then deep into the survey, the survey administrator asked about the Tea Parties and if she thought they were hateful, etc. Well,...

The media certainly is changing, and major network news outfits including CBS and ABC are loosing audience number as ratings for the first quarter confirm a declining trend. The combined three still have a lot of viewers. The Internet. I think the Net has quite a bit to do with it and as competition increases the big players who were once king of the roost are naturally loosing market share. I’m not saying the big networks are ignoring new delivery systems – they certainly are not – it’s just the nature of innovation.

Rush Limbaugh is striking back at President Barack Obama. On Friday, the nation's top-rated radio host hit back at Obama, saying the president isn’t telling the truth and doesn't have the support of the American people. The controversy started Thursday, when Obama used an interview with CBS' Harry Smith to level a broadside at Limbaugh and Fox News host Glenn Beck. Smith asked Obama if he is “aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation" about him, including being called a Nazi and socialist. Obama shot back, "Well,...

New fuel standards make both the left and the media happy. It's easy to tell. There wasn't a single voice of opposition criticizing the latest act of Big Government on major prime-time news outlets ABC, CBS or NBC. "Environmentalists are hailing the move as nothing short of historic," NBC's Lee Cowan said of the federal government's new fuel efficiency standards. The networks did much the same. Broad consensus from NBC's "Nightly News" and CBS's "Evening News" reflected praise for the Obama administration's latest regulatory efforts. The federal government took a historic step April 1 to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. As...

With buyouts and layoffs in progress, the mood at ABC News can’t be good — and it was not likely enhanced by the ratings report for the first quarter of the year, which showed that the network’s evening newscast, “World News” had sunk to the lowest numbers the program had seen in a first quarter since the People Meter was introduced by Nielsen in 1987. The same story prevailed at CBS, where the “Evening News” also hit a new low for the months of January through March. So what’s happening? Is this a signal that viewers are abandoning network newscasts...

Well this is an interesting twist – actor/musician LL Cool J, who is one of the celebrities who will be part of Sarah Palin’s Thursday show (and is in the promo), isn’t happy about the ‘misrepresentation.’ He is reacting on Twitter – but is he ‘misrepresenting’ the circumstances as well? Do me a favor. Start this video now – it will provide the soundtrack to the rest of the post: Ok, we’re good? Now let’s get started. So Palin’s special on Thursday at 10pmET is called Real American Stories (here’s a preview), and although it is the premiere episode, the...

I was watching NCIS episode tonight on CBS. The episode is named "Endgame", for when it is posted at CBS online for later reference. In the episode, two male NCIS agents knock on a door. A shotgun blast comes through the door and the two agents go to the ground calling the person inside to drop the weapon and come out.A woman then comes out the door with the shotgun on the ground.One of the agents asks her "Who do you think you are? Sarah Palin?"

To All freepers: The fair minded and unbiased CBS as posted a poll asking you to grade the disaster's 1st year performance in these areas: Economy Foreign Policy Health Care Afghanistan Iraq Threat of Terrorism Energy and the Environment Social Issues Bipartisanship & Obama's Overall Job as President

Poll: Most Want GOP To Keep Fighting on Health Bill ************** This is good news. It proves that, even with a poll done by a media outlet not friendly toward conservatives, the majority of the country is on our side! Let's stay focused, revved up (but civil) and engaged. We shall prevail.