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Gayle King Predicts “CBS This Morning” Has Two Years to Make It

Don Irvine — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:41:45 +0000

In an interview in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King predicts that the network will give the show two years before trying something different. NYT: CBS’s morning shows have been in third place for nearly three decades now, and many people believe that a lack of chemistry among its [...]

Rather Says He Doesn’t See Any Liberal Media Bias [Video]

Don Irvine — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:35:11 +0000

Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather stopped by The View earlier this week and told Joy Behar that he doesn’t think the media have a liberal bias. Rather, who has been hitting the talk show circuit this month to promote the release of his new book Outspoken, spent several minutes discussing his failed lawsuit [...]

Matthews Not Thrilled with Right-Wing “Jackasses”

Don Irvine — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:10:53 +0000

MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews got a little testy at the National Cable Television Association’s Cable Show when C-SPAN’s Steve Scully asked him about his now infamous “thrill up his leg” statement after listening to Barack Obama speak in 2008. Scully: Quote from 2008: “I have to tell you it’s part of reporting this election [...]

Chris Matthews Asks DNC Chair Wasserman-Schultz Where All the Obama Surrogates Are

Don Irvine — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:02:20 +0000

On Tuesday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews attacked DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for the lack of pro-Obama surrogates to back up President Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital. Matthews has been troubled since Democratic Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey criticized the Obama campaign for attacking Bain Capital and private equity during an appearance Sunday on [...]

New York Times Public Editor to Depart in September

Don Irvine — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:17:02 +0000

The New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane will leave his post on September 1, after completing his two-year contract, according to Erik Wemple of The Washington Post. Brisbane told Wemple that he made the decision last fall to serve two years and not exercise the third-year option in his contract and that the paper [...]

Washington Post Ombudsman Admits Paper Falls Short on Catholic Coverage

Don Irvine — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:09:57 +0000

Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton dismissed reader complaints that the paper is anti-Catholic, but admitted it could have done a better job in covering the different opinions of Catholics on a broad range of issues. Pexton defended the paper at first by saying that the Post’s OnFaith blog has a wide range of voices including [...]

Former CNN Anchor Rips Obama Over His Treatment of Women

Don Irvine — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:09:42 +0000

In an op-ed in The New York Times, former CNN anchor Campbell Brown ripped President Obama for being grating and condescending and that he should stop it: My bigger concern is that in courting women, Mr. Obama’s campaign so far has seemed maddeningly off point. His message to the Barnard graduates was that they should [...]

Joe Biden Doesn’t “Blame People” For Voting For Texas Felon Over Obama in West Virginia

Don Irvine — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:06:16 +0000

For Republicans, Vice President Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. In an interview he gave on Thursday in Ohio, he told a reporter that he doesn’t blame people for voting for a felon in the Democratic primary in West Virginia with the economy being the way it is. Biden:”Look, I come from [...]

U.S. News & World Report Hires Disgraced Former Washington Post Blogger

Don Irvine — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:59:20 +0000

Former Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock, who resigned from the paper in mid-April, announced on Twitter that she has been hired to blog for U.S. News & World Report. She will be the lead writer for the Washington Whispers blog which was previously written by Paul Bedard, who is now with The Washington Examiner. Flock [...]

CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield Rips Obama Campaign Spokesperson for “Dirty” Bain Ad

Don Irvine — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:56:03 +0000

When Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt was invited to appear on CNN to discuss the campaign’s new ad on Mitt Romney, he probably didn’t expect that he would have to spend his entire time on the air defending the ad. But that’s what he was forced to do when CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield questioned [...]