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St Louis TV Station Airs Illegal Immigrant Tearjerker

May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

KMOV Channel 4, the CBS television news affiliate in St. Louis, broadcast an illegal immigrant tearjerker story Tuesday, making me wonder what point, if any, investigative reporter Craig Cheatham was trying to make.  Watch… The cold, hard reality of the situation is that when “Miguel”, the illegal immigrant who entered this country illegally from Mexico [...]

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St Louis TV Stations Cover Health Care Town Hall

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments

More than 2,200 people packed the health care town hall meeting Wednesday morning in St. Charles, Mo.  Even if they had wanted to skew their coverage, the overwhelming anti-ObamaCare sentiment at the St. Charles Convention Center likely convinced them otherwise. Below are video clips of the coverage of the meeting provided by three St. Louis [...]

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St. Louis Tea Party Media Coverage Mixed

November 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Having worked with journalists at NHK while living in Japan 20 years ago, I was excited to see a crew from the Japanese television network at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon.  My first thought:  “The local tea party movement had finally earned a spot on the world stage.”  But I was wrong. [...]

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Report: Plot to Kill Barack Obama Thwarted

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Denver television station CBS4 is reporting that at least four people were arrested in connection with a possible plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his Thursday night acceptance speech at Invesco Field in the Mile High City. The U.S. Attorney in Denver has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon, according to the CBS affiliate. [...]

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