Dana Bash ‘Snowballed’
CNN reporter Dana Bash receives some choice words from Ron Paul supporters who object to her consistently negative and biased coverage of Dr. Paul during the 2012 presidential primary race. The title of this film references the blowback that Sean Hannity received during the 2008 race. No actual snowballs were thrown.
Seth Meyers’ Speech At 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers gave a speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, targeting GOP candidates, Donald Trump, VP Joe Biden and the President. While he received quite a few laughs, some guests (i.e. Trump) were less than amused:
CNN Sending Eight Times More Staff To Prince William’s Wedding Than To Japan
Ah, cable news. 2011 has brought a wealth of incredible, transformative, and tragic events around the globe, but the mainstream media will have to hold off on covering that until after royal wedding season. The Atlantic Wire notes the figure, mentioned in passing in a Wall Street Journal story:
This crazy statistic comes from the Wall Street Journal’s Amy Chozick and Cecile Rohwedder, who discovered, as proof of the media madness that will be Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, “CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to the wedding.” To compare: A group of just 50 CNN employees, one-eighth the size of the anticipated wedding fleet, are currently on the ground in Japan covering the aftermath of the earthquake and the continuing nuclear containment problem.
CNN isn’t the only network with such disproportionately big plans for the royal wedding. On the day of the earthquake, Technolayer…
Wikileaks Founder Walks Off CNN Interview
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walks out of an interview with CNN reporter Atika Shubert after asking personal questions.
CNN Anchor Or Porn Star?
Someone noticed that CNN selects on-air talent with names that sound like adult film actors. If you want to break into the television news biz, it heps to pick a pseudo-porn-star moniker to go by professionally.
Michael Moore’s On-Air Spanking Of CNN
Michael Moore maybe is a blowhard, but he’s alright with me if he can make Wolf Blitzer look like this much of a douche. Mike went on Blitzer’s show to discuss his new Wall Street documentary Capitalism: A Love Story and the grey-haired host went for the jugular, accusing Moore of being a socialist and a hypocrite (for acting concerned about the fate of poor people, despite not being poor himself). Watch Moore rip him to shreds.
