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Any lingering hope you may have harbored for corporate pundits to rise above their infatuation with John McCain running mate Sarah Palin will surely be dashed by Rich Lowry’s titillated take (National Review Online, 10/3/08) on her debate performance–quoted in full: A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is […]
On October 3, NBC Nightly News presented a “fact check” of the Palin/Biden debate, courtesy of reporter Andrea Mitchell. The report adhered to the unfortunate (and much discussed here at fair.org) tendency of media “false balance.” Here’s Mitchell’s first catch: MITCHELL: Both candidates exaggerated, Palin on a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. PALIN: We’re building […]
Here’s Sarah Palin misquoting her coffee cup: I’m reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day…. It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador…. Now she said it, I didn’t. She said, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.” It’s […]
Dan Noyes of the Center for Investigative Journalism talks Bush’s judges and what’s often missing from the media’s portrayal of this battle. Also on the program: a discussion with Greg Mitchell from Editor & Publisher magazine on the Pat Tillman scandal and what it says about media priorities.
Journalists are obsessed with cutting political women down to size, whether elected to office or propelled by marriage into the peculiar role of first lady.
With the February 1 ABC News special, Boys and Girls Are Different: Men, Women and the Sex Difference, reported by correspondent John Stossel, hormonally induced haircut prices joined gay brains and race-based IQ as the politically charged science of the media moment. The show asked the eternal question, “Are men and women supposed to be […]
