The arrest of a Democratic public official in Las Vegas for allegedly murdering a journalist shocked the nation, but news networks went out of their way to bury his party affiliation.
Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the death of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, who was fatally stabbed in front of his home on Saturday.
German’s reporting had exposed scandals that plagued Telles, including a hostile work environment and an extramarital affair with a staffer, which was followed by his re-election defeat during a Democratic primary held in June.
Fair however, had already tested negative for the virus at least five times according to Steve Krakauer of the Fourth Watch Newsletter and said this week his illness from two months ago “remains an undiagnosed mystery” following the results of a negative antibody test.
“I had myriad COVID symptoms, was hospitalized in a COVID ward & treated for COVID-related co-morbidities, despite testing negative by nasal swab,” Fair told followers on Twitter.
NBC was aware” of the reporting, Wagmeister tweeted. “There are multiple women we’ve spoken to with far-ranging accusations against Lauer. The power of journalism has never been more evident with this cultural change.”
For some inexplicable reason NBC cut the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance during it’s coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament.
For some inexplicable reason NBC cut the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance during it’s coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament.
It’s inexplicable to us, but perhaps you’re smarter than we are and can explic it.
Strange as this must have seemed to NBC, people noticed. They complained. In droves. And NBC began a tardy attempt at damage control by having Dan Hicks issue this vague apology on the air:
“We began our coverage of this final round just about three hours ago and when we did it was our intent to begin the coverage of this U.S. Open Championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation’s capital for the third time. Regrettably, a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone and we’d like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it.”
A portion? What portion? The general statement doesn’t actually say.
NBC, which is owned in part by General Electric, a company so far up Obama’s butt that it can’t see daylight, omitted the same words Obama omitted from the Declaration of Independence in an April speech and from his Thanksgiving proclamation in November.
But please don’t read anything into this remarkable coincidence.
Consider this the purest example of the media’s complete detachment from the American people: NBC has named Ground Zero Mosque developer Sharif El-Gamal one of its “People of the Year.”
Consider this the purest example of the media’s complete detachment from the American people: NBC has named Ground Zero Mosque developer Sharif El-Gamal one of its “People of the Year.”
Sharif el-Gamal, deadbeat, tax cheat and, of course, one of NBC's People of the Year
Pundit Press has the story:
NBC and its affiliates have been trounced in ratings over the last several years. With stations like MSNBC under their belt and liberals such as Matt Lauer and Keith Olbermann hosting programs, NBC is clearly disconnected with the average American. Another clear sign of their mismanagement: naming Sharif El-Gamal, developer of the Ground Zero Mosque, one of their “People of the Year.”
In an interview set to air on Thanksgiving Day, Matt Lauer sat down with El-Gamal and discussed the “Park 51 Project.” El-Gamal, who was apparently pleased to be named one of NBC’s people of the year, seemed very comfortable answering questions. The excerpt released so far shows that Mr. Lauer gave El-Gamal a decidedly softball interview.
No comment necessary on this one. None. Except that we hate the media.
Is it just us or does NBC News turns itself into an oxymoron when it covers an event that happened 47 years ago. Note that there is no question mark at the end of that sentence, making it purely a rhetorical question.
Is it just us or does NBC News turns itself into an oxymoron when it covers an event that happened 47 years ago. Note that there is no question mark at the end of that sentence, making it purely a rhetorical question.
"Camelot" is what passes for news on the NBC Nightly "News"
Camelot still exists in the minds of the Washington-New York-Hollywood axis and they will attempt to reinforce it every damn chance they get, whether it’s calling Barack Obama the last Kennedy brother or finding a new way to mark the anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
For example, here’s Brian Williams on last night’s NBC Nightly “News”:
For more than one American generation, November 22nd will always be the day President Kennedy was shot. A new book just out is full of the imagery of those years. It’s called “Portrait of Camelot,” full of rarely seen family photos by the White House photographer back then, Cecil Stoughton.
They include JFK’s Christmas Eve in Palm Beach, making sure the stockings were hung by the chimney with care. The incredibly cute John Jr. on a boat in August of ‘63. Jacqueline Kennedy on a boat off Cape Cod while Caroline naps on a summer day.
Video released along with the book includes a First Family dip in the fountain, the backyard of the White House on the South Lawn. And for the First Family, of course, it all came to an end on this day, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
In the misty world of liberal memories, JFK wasn’t a womanizer. Teddy Kennedy wasn’t a drunk. Joe Kennedy wasn’t a Nazi-sympathizing rum runner. The family’s men had no warts and its women were perfectly-coifed paragons of virtue.
Don’t you just know that we’re going to have to live with this same sort of nonsense for the next 50 years after Obama leaves office.
Don’t look for CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin to send his resume over to NBC News in the near future. He’s involved in a nasty paternity suit with Casey Greenfield, daughter of NBC News exec Jeff Greenfield.
CNN legal analyst Jeff Toobin explains the legal concepts of "borking" and "boinking" to Casey Greenfield
Don’t look for CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin to send his resume over to NBC News in the near future. He’s involved in a nasty paternity suit with Casey Greenfield, daughter of NBC News exec Jeff Greenfield.
The New York Daily News delivers the news:
One of the media elite’s most whispered-about scandals went public Wednesday when married CNN correspondent Jeffrey Toobin squared off with a woman who says he’s the father of her baby.
Yale-educated lawyer Casey Greenfield – the daughter of eminent CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield – had a chilly faceoff with Toobin in Manhattan Family Court.
The ex-lovers barely spoke in the waiting area before joining their lawyers behind closed doors with a court referee to hash out custody and money issues.
Toobin, who glumly sat several rows away from Casey Greenfield before the hearing, is said to have privately admitted to fathering the child, believed to have been born last summer, sources said.
A friend of Greenfield’s said the outspoken Toobin has resisted putting his name on the infant’s birth certificate and hasn’t given his former lover the child support she’s requested.
Quick. Someone find a clip of Toobin covering the John Edwards “baby daddy” story. That would be some good television.
Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director and chief White House correspondent really didn’t like it when Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon appeared on Fox News Sunday and said, “…the mainstream media hates the tea party movement almost as much as it hates Sarah Palin.”
Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director and chief White House correspondent really didn’t like it when Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon appeared on Fox News Sunday and said, “…the mainstream media hates the tea party movement almost as much as it hates Sarah Palin.”
Now any rational person would say that statement is inarguable. Nevertheless, Todd chose to argue the inarguable on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Todd: We all know there are a lot of different ways people get news. And then you have straight journalists, you have activist journalists, you have opinion folks. And we know that they’re all out there. I think we believe here at NBC that people are smart enough to figure it out. And that’s why when a news executive goes out there and states a crazy accusation like that, that it ends up, it only ends up probably hurting what they’re trying to do, but it creates, it only denigrates all of us.
. . .
And I’m sorry, there is certain news organizations out here whose agenda is to undermine the 90% of journalists who are just simply trying to cover stories out there. And that’s what really frustrates me about what’s happened in the media landscape. It is a business for some media organizations to undermine the quote-unquote the mainstream media because it’s good for their business. And this is not just on the right, it’s happening on the left as well.
Pardon us while we laugh.
MSNBC is surely the wrong place to make this argument, Chuck. The ratings-challenged network is doing an admirable job undermining itself with absolutely no assistance from Fox.
Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee says it’s “appalled” because NBC News chartered a plane for David Goldman and his son, Sean, to fly from Brazil to the United States.
Admittedly, we didn’t have a lot of interest in the case of David Goldman, the American father who was battling to get his son back from the kid’s adopted stepfather in Brazil. But when we saw that Goldman was flying back and forth from New Jersey to Brazil in a private jet, we briefly thought to ourselves, “Jeez, that guy must have a ton of money.”
We were wrong. Turns out NBC has a ton of money and they spent it like Barack Obama on speed to become the exclusive David Goldman network.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that NBC’s actions have earned the network a scathing rebuke from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee:
The panel says it’s “appalled” because NBC News chartered a plane for Goldman and his son, Sean, to fly from Brazil to the United States. They were reunited after a five-year custody battle, and they arrived in Orlando on Christmas Eve. In paying for the plane, NBC News engaged in “checkbook journalism,” the Ethics Committee says.
The journalists’ group has a code of ethics that urges reporters to refrain from bidding for news.
“The public could rightly assume that NBC News bought exclusive interviews and images, as well as the family’s loyalty, with an extravagant gift,” Ethics Committee Chairman Andy Schotz said.
In a statement, NBC News said: “The Goldmans were invited on a jet NBC News chartered to fly home to the U.S. on Thursday, December 24. NBC News has followed this story since the Goldmans’ story first ran on Dateline nearly one year ago — David Goldman since has appeared on Today seventeen times. NBC News has not and will not pay for an interview.”
With its lavish gesture to the Goldmans, NBC News helped create the news and jeopardized its credibility, the SPJ Ethics Committee said.
“Mixing financial and promotional motives with an impartial search for truth stains honest, ethical reporting,” Schotz said. “Checkbook journalism has no place in the news business.”
Close, Schotz, but no cigar.
What you should have said is that NBC has no place in the new business.
hen the White House attempted to bar Fox from interviewing the Pay Czar, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN said they would also decline to interview him if Fox was barred.
The Huffington Post is outraged – positively outraged – that the rest of the news media has risen up in support of Fox News.
Fox News Channel is twisting American politics in an unprecedented way, and too many members of the press still aren’t getting it.
The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war aimed at destroying the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.
That certainly does appear to be the case, because five other networks stood as one behind Fox News yesterday. When the White House attempted to bar Fox from interviewing the Pay Czar, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN said they would also decline to interview him if Fox was barred.
We’ve criticized President Obama for taking so long to develop a strategy for the war in Afghanistan. But if the war on Fox is any indication of what happens when a strategy is rushed, take all the time you want on the Afghanistan thing, President Obama. All the time you want.
It was a very weird, but very consistent day. At the same time NBC has cancelled “Southland” before it ever aired, Barack Obama was given a Nobel Peace Prize prior to accomplishing anything to deserve it.
Southland didn't deserve what it got. Neither did Barack Obama.
It was a very weird, but very consistent day. At the same time NBC has cancelled “Southland” before it ever aired, Barack Obama was given a Nobel Peace Prize prior to accomplishing anything to deserve it.
Jay Leno’s comment on the cancellation story was, “NBC’s ratings aren’t so hot. In fact — and this is true — this week the network canceled the show ‘Southland’ before it even came back on the air. Next thing you know they’ll be canceling shows before writers can even think of them.”
Had Leno done a Nobel Peace Prize version it would have said, “Barack Obama’s approval ratings aren’t so hot. In fact – and this is true – today the Nobel committee gave the President the Nobel Peace Prize before he’s actually accomplished anything. Next thing you know they’ll be giving Presidents awards before they’re even elected.”
What’s that? Obama was nominated two weeks prior to his inauguration? So the prize couldn’t possibly be based on anything he’s done? Hmmmm.
Congratulations, President Obama. We’re sure you’re proud to be take your place alongside other peaceful men like Yassar Arafat.
The One now believes he is The Only One who can save his floundering socialist healthcare plan. So he showed up on five networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN plus Spanish-language Univision — on Sunday to pitch his leftist heart out.
The One now believes he is The Only One who can save his floundering socialist healthcare plan. So he showed up on five networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN plus Spanish-language Univision — on Sunday to pitch his leftist heart out.
Of course, the Greatest President In History did not appear on Fox Sunday, automatically eliminating himself for consideration for any future sequels to Profiles In Courage. In search of more friendly climes, he will continue his Talking Tour 2009 on Monday’s David Letterman Show.
According to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University in Maryland, Barack Obama has been one very busy President. Oh, not busy doing the actual work of a President, but busy talking. Always talking. By the time the sun sets on Sunday, he will have done 124 separate interviews during his short presidency. One hundred twenty-four.
In contrast, George Bush had done only 40 interviews and Bill Clinton had done 46 at this same point in their presidencies.
We hope ObamaCare covers Presidential Appearance Fatigue Syndrome (PAFS), because we are really getting tired of seeing this guy on televison.
Media Matters is apparently upset with the mainstream media’s coverage of President Obama recent speech to that Joint Session of Congress. “NBC featured nearly twice as much coverage of Wilson as Obama,” they noted.
Joe Wilson speaks truth to power. And power didn
Media Matters is apparently upset with the mainstream media’s coverage of President Obama recent speech to that Joint Session of Congress.
“NBC featured nearly twice as much coverage of Wilson as Obama,” they noted. “NBC’s Nightly News provided 3 minutes and 2 seconds of coverage of Obama’s September 9 joint address to Congress, compared to almost twice as much coverage — 5 minutes and 47 seconds — of Wilson’s outburst during that address.”
NBC unfair to Obama? Now there’s a headline.
Media Matters even provided really cool charts that showed minute by minute coverage by the three main networks (ABC, NBC, CBS).
However, by our unscientific finger count, Media Matters had five front page stories focusing on Glenn Beck and none focused on The Greatest President In History.
We’re waiting for the angry statement from Obama accusing Media Matters of Glenn Beck bias. We won’t hold our breath.
We’re nearing the Christmas season and if you were wondering where to find the perfect presents for your loved ones, Glenn Beck has a suggestion. Visit the NBC store to find some of the finest Obama-themed gifts available anywhere.
We’re nearing the Christmas season and if you were wondering where to find the perfect presents for your loved ones, Glenn Beck has a suggestion.
Visit the NBC store to find some of the finest Obama-themed gifts available anywhere. You can choose from an Obama action figure, a Obama coffee mug, a “Yes We Did” T-shirt, and four other delightful items featuring the President’s image.
That leads directly to Beck’s brilliant analysis of NBC’s prejudiced reporting.
Yes, we get it. The main stream media loves Barack Obama. A study conducted by the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs and California’s Chapman University has actually measured the amount of drool in the slobbering love affair
the MSM has been carrying on with Obama for the last 100 days.
MediaBistro reports, “Not only has Obama gotten more coverage, but that coverage has been more positive than his predecessors.”
“On the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts, 58% of all evaluations of the president and his policies have been favorable, while 42% were unfavorable. That compares with 33% positive in the comparable period of Bush’s tenure and 44% positive for Pres. Clinton.”
Maybe you’re wondering how the MSM (sans Fox) can be in such agreement with The One’s agenda. Turns out there’s a reason beyond the Administration’s daily phone calls with George Stephanopolous.
Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz reveals that key MSM journalists are meeting furtively for swanky dinners at The Watergate where Administration bigwigs spoon-feed talking points to their left-wing media enablers. (Off the record, naturally.) Kurtz comments, “the catered gatherings…sound rather cozy, like some secret-handshake gathering of an entrenched elite. Are the top-level officials, strategists and foreign leaders there for serious questioning or risk-free spin sessions? And what exactly is the journalistic benefit if the visitors are protected by a shield of anonymity?”
Fortunately these reporters are no longer anonymous. Want to know the names of the media lapdogs eating out of the Administration’s hand? According to Kurtz, “Among those in regular attendance are David Brooks and Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gene Robinson and Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post, NBC’s David Gregory, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, PBS’s Gwen Ifill, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum, former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson and staffers from Bradley’s Atlantic and National Journal, including Ron Brownstein, Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch.”
As Kurtz next points out, unsurprisingly, “The networks have given President Obama more coverage than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined in their first months — and more positive assessments to boot.”
“On Fox News, by contrast, only 13 percent of the assessments of Obama were positive on the first half of Bret Baier’s “Special Report,” which most resembles a newscast. The president got far better treatment in the New York Times, where 73 percent of the assessments in front-page pieces were positive.”
This explains a lot. While the competition is busy slobbering, Fox is clobbering.
Readers of the L.A. Times know the paper sometimes slants the news and other times reports it very selectively, but now they’re guilty of completely fraudulent news.
The front page of today’s Los Angeles Times features what appears to be a major feature story on a rookie LAPD cop named Ben Sherman. The story breathlessly reports his first day on the job.
Only one problem. Sherman doesn’t exist. He’s the lead character in a new NBC-TV program called “Southland” that premieres tonight. And the article isn’t really an article – it’s a paid advertisement.
The ad isn’t in the Times normal typeface and it’s subtly labeled as an “Advertisement.” But how many readers of the Times will notice the difference?
The Times has come under heavy criticism in the past for blurring the line between editorial and advertising. The decision to adorn the front page with a faux news story that can easily be confused for actual reportage will undoubtedly elicit howls of protest once again.
The Los Angeles Times. All the fiction that’s fit to print.
Mark Cuban turns turns from Dr. Jeckyl to Mr. Hyde while watching his Dallas Mavs play Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, made a billion dollars in high technology. Now he’s slowly giving it all back thanks to high technology.
The NBA just tagged Cuban with a $25,000 fine for criticizing the refs after Denver’s controversial 103-101 win over Dallas. But the interesting thing is that this time he didn’t spout off to a TV station, he didn’t complain to a radio station, he didn’t bitch to a newspaper. Nope, this time Cuban used high technology to earn his fine – he Twittered his complaint.
What was the notoriously hot-headed Cuban’s bitch? He thought a Denver player should have been called for coming off the bench to taunt one of his Dallas players. In an earlier game between the two teams, Cuban was fined another $25,000 for complaining about the officiating.
The good news is that Cuban has so much money that he can laugh about these $25,000 fines. As he said in another Twitter post, “can’t say no one makes money from twitter now. the nba does.”
We think the NBA should reconsider. Cuban also owns the HDTV network, which makes him Dan Rather’s boss. Isn’t that punishment enough?
Did you catch habitual liar Keith Olbermann on the Tonight Show the other night? We didn’t think so.
The only thing interesting about it – other than Jay Leno’s continued race to the left – was the moment when Keith and Jay confessed to the fact that they are embarrassed by the their employers.
It went like this:
LENO: Can I ask you a dumb question? It’s called American Insurance Group? Is that the name? OLB: I believe that’s it, yes. LENO: Is this even an American company? Or is this one of these phony things where you’re chopping down trees and you call yourself The Evergreen Preservation Society? OLB: It’s a brand name. LENO: Is it even American at all? OLB: It probably was at some point. But you know, when you go to initials, as you know, its usually a sign something’s changed. Just going by your initials you really don’t want to be identified as the company anymore.
What a bonehead. Would someone please point out to Olbermann that his employer is one of those companies that goes by initials instead of its full name.
And then would someone please point out to these two financial geniuses that it’s actually the American International Group, not the American Insurance Group.
Source: NBC (formerly the National Broadcasting Company)
The economy has dealt a vicious blow to one of Matt Lauer’s coolest perks.
No more gallivanting around the world during the Today Show’s annual “Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?” promotion. It’s been axed by producers who say the extravagant trip sent the wrong message in today’s tough economy.
The new plan calls for Lauer to spend five days trudging around “affordable” vacation spots in the United States.
If the Today Show really wants to save money, here’s another idea: Have Lauer stay right in New York and broadcast directly from his home.
Instead of lounging on the beach in the Seychelle Islands, he can lounge on his couch. Instead of dining at fine restaurants in Paris, he can eating pork and beans out of the can while standing at the kitchen sink. Instead of sleeping in five star hotels, he can catnap in a La-Z-Boy recliner in his den. Instead of interviewing exotic foreigners, he can interview his illegal Guatamalan housekeeper.
