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Barack Obama’s Promise of Transparency MIA (Update)

January 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Dec. 14, 2009

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

“Reconcile” came to mind as Uncle Jay’s word of the week as it relates to Tiger Woods, the Nobel Peace Prize and other topics on the latest episode of “Uncle Jay Explains the News.” This week, Uncle Jay explains how Woods is trying “to get along better and work things out” by reconciling with his [...]

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Nightly Newsers Full of Nightly Surprises

June 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Watching the alphabet soup of evening newscasts can be information and full of surprises at the same time.  Take, for instance, stories that aired recently on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. In a piece that aired Friday, Williams is shown bowing to President Barack Obama as they [...]

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CBS News Exposes Obama’s Fundraising Fraud!

October 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

In a move that probably riled anchor Katie Couric to no end, CBS News finally revealed something about Barack Obama‘s fraudulent campaign fundraising efforts. Among reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s findings broadcast yesterday was the case of one shady donor — who provided his name as “Dad” and his employer as “Loving” — who, according to Federal [...]

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CBS Execs Consider Outsourcing News to CNN

April 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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BEWARE OF BLOG: Couric and Company

May 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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