Bob McCarty Writes

Almost a year has passed since the editorial cartoon above appeared in a BMW post published under the headline, Obama Has Yet to Fulfill Pledge of Transparency. Unfortunately, it seems nothing has changed since he took office — and people are starting to notice. In the video below, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb talks about how [...]

[Read more →]

By Bob McCarty One might think an accomplished journalist like Armen Keteyian capable of providing objective coverage of the oil and gas industry. Unfortunately, the chief investigative reporter — and former sports reporter — appears to have allowed personal bias and/or professional ignorance to get in the way of the facts in his report that [...]

[Read more →]

The folks at Brown Books Publishing issued a news release today about a new book, One Nation Under Blog: Forget the Facts … Believe What I Say! by David G. Wallace.  I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the author is a blogger himself [...]

[Read more →]

The New York Times is reporting this morning that CBS News executives are in serious talks with CNN that may result in CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric turning to an Atlanta-based cable news reporter for an on-the-scene report. Though the Times article failed to mention it, I suspect the arrangement between the once-venerable news [...]

[Read more →]

Hillary Clinton a liar? No! She’s a victim — and the CBS Evening News story broadcast last night proves it once and for all. The struggling Democrat presidential candidate, you see, suffers from Partzheimer’s (a.k.a., Convenient Memory-Loss Syndrome) as first highlighted in a post on this blog one year ago this month and reiterated in [...]

[Read more →]

Having failed in its effort to have the war in Iraq dubbed “a defeat,” CBS launched another offensive against the Bush Administration during tonight’s broadcast of the CBS Evening News. The topic du jour? Suicides among veterans of the U.S. military. Tonight’s report by Armen Keteyian, the network’s chief investigative reporter, highlighted what was described [...]

[Read more →]

This afternoon, I stumbled upon Katie Couric’s weblog, Couric & Co., and one of her recent posts, 10 Questions: About Imus, Civil Rights & Katrina. The post features the struggling CBS Evening News anchor’s interview of the head of “the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group” whose focus is reported as “helping African-Americans enter [...]

[Read more →]