CBS’S RYAN/ROMNEY INTERVIEW BLASTED LEFT AND RIGHT

The predicament television networks find themselves in during an increasingly polarized political environment was brought home following Sunday night’s 60 Minutes feature in which Bob Schieffer interviewed Mitt Romney and his recently selected running mate, Paul Ryan, for the first time. On today’s Fox & Friends on the conservative Fox News channel, Co-host Eric Bolling […]

REPORT: FOX NEWS MAY DUMP GLENN BECK

Fox News executives are considering dropping Glenn Beck when his contract comes up for renewal in December, New York Times columnist David Carr reported on Sunday, citing unnamed officials at the cable news network. Carr indicated that they are becoming increasingly concerned about a significant erosion of Beck’s audience (he has lost more than a […]

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 […]

FOX NEWS TO AIR SPOT FROM LIBERAL WEBSITE

Fox News has agreed to run an ad from the liberal website Media Matters, decrying the $1 million that the news network’s corporate parent, News Corp, donated to the Republican Governors Association, Politico.com reported on Tuesday. The 30-second ad will air during The O’Reilly Factor, whose host, Bill O’Reilly, once described Media Matters as “perhaps […]

MEDIA UPROAR OVER FIRING OF USDA OFFICIAL

As diverse a group as Fox News, the NAACP, and the Obama administration were all seeking to put out a political firestorm that threatened to burn them all, after conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart posted a video on his website that appeared to show Shirley Sherrod, an official in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, delivering racist […]