Friday, July 31, 2009

Washington Post’s Milbank Says Hillary Clinton Should Drink “Mad Bitch” Beer

This is the kind of garbage that has permeated media coverage of Hillary Clinton for years. Relevant segment at about 2:35. (h/t Brian Beutler).

Rambling Brian Williams: I Start My Day With “A Bit of Methamphetamine”

Courtesy of HuffPost, a rambling appearance by Brian Williams on Willie Geist’s new show, intended as humor, but still a bit odd:

Thursday, July 30, 2009

CNN.com to be Renamed MJ.com

Evidenced by this:

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Chuck Todd Takes a Swipe at Arianna Huffington

Ben Smith: “NBC’s Chuck Todd goes off on Glenn Beck on First Read today, but his real targets are Ailes and Huffington: “Former political consultants-turned-TV execs or former radio DJs, or former California socialites, the folks helping to accelerate the public’s perception of the media off a cliff [are people who] made their livings trying to do other things.”

I certainly understand going after Beck - and more specifically the major outlets (including CNN) who have given him a platform. But lumping Huffington with Beck is way off base. Before he throws more stones, Todd may want to look at his own glass house, i.e. his own network’s culpability during the past decade, from the misogynistic coverage of Hillary Clinton to the fawning over Bush to the love affair with Ann Coulter.

Political Wire: Public Option Would Not Pass Senate

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

One of the Big Stories of the Year: Wall Street’s Dramatic Return to Profligacy

This video tells it all - truly obscene:

The Birther Explosion: If the Media Covers It, It’s News

For media watchers, the dramatic escalation of the ‘birther’ story is a fascinating study in the continued capacity of the traditional media to steer the national discourse…

We’ll know we’ve reached a tipping point (still far off) when the media hypes something, the online commentariat hypes something else, and the latter becomes the center of national attention.

Monday, July 27, 2009

CTN’s Patrick Hynes Guests

CTN’s Patrick Hynes appeared on WMUR-ABC’s “Close-up New Hampshire” this weekend to discuss recent political happenings across the nation. Take a peek…

Friday, July 24, 2009

White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination

Questioning the media’s priorities is a full time occupation for online denizens - and an undeniably important one, as media coverage shapes our views. The complex tensions between the press and online commentariat, the symbiosis between content producers and consumers, newsmakers and opinion-makers, the gradual morphing of one into the other, these are the defining characteristics of the modern political era. In that vein, it’s worth looking at the story of the moment, the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr…

FNC News Break: Prez Blames Media for Cops Remark Dustup

Fox News Channel’s Mike Emanuel has a significant new development in the Obama vs. Cambridge Police story. Evidently White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told him that President Obama regrets they way the media has reacted to his pronouncement that the police acted “stupidly,” despite also claiming he doesn’t know all the facts behind the Henry Louis Gates incident.