DID MSNBC DOCTOR NEWS CLIP?

Conservative commentators on Wednesday were taking MSNBC to task for “selective editing” of a news clip in which the father of a Sandyhook shooting victim appeared to be heckled by a member of the audience. In the video, Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in the shooting, says, “I ask if there’s anybody […]

COVERAGE OF WALL STREET PROTESTS PROTESTED

TV and press coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest was being criticized by commentators on both the right and left Tuesday. On the CNSNews website, a unit of Brent Bozell’s conservative Media Research Center, Bozell said today (Wednesday) that “Journalists who desperately want Obama’s reelection are grasping at the narrative of a growing liberal […]

GROUP CHARGES MTV’S SKINS AMOUNTS TO “KIDDIE PORN”

Claiming that the new MTV series Skins amounts to “kiddie porn,” the head of the Media Research Center, which operates the watchdog group Parents Television Council, has called upon the Justice Department to determine whether it violates U.S. statutes on child pornography. In an interview with Fox News commentator Sean Hannity on Thursday, MRC chief […]

CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR PRAISES 2010’S MOVIES

CNSNews.com, a unit of the conservative Media Research Center that is generally a harsh critic of Hollywood’s output, has published an end-of-the-year commentary by Ben Shapiro, the young conservative columnist and radio talk-show host, that concludes, “Surprisingly, it’s been a good year for movies.” He notes that the best films of the year “tended to […]

FILMMAKER’S CNN STING BACKFIRES

Conservative commentators and Fox News are distancing themselves from James O’Keefe, the filmmaking activist behind the now infamous and discredited ACORN tapes, who allegedly tried to trick CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau into boarding a boat filled with sex toys, try to seduce her, tape the entire scene, edit it, and then submit it to a […]