News Hounds

Convention Coverage: CBS vs. Fox -- Correction

CBS promised only one hour of convention coverage tonight (July 26) and it delivered. Fox News promised a full night of coverage and didn't deliver.

The Common Good

Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation (July 11, 10:55 a.m.) CBS made a thoughtful comment about how our Congress is spending their time. Paraphrasing, he said that with our country in deep trouble, mentioning economic and security problems, and needing our representatives to focus upon substantive things, the Congress is spending their time on the same sex marriage amendment.

More Shameless Self-Promotion

NASCAR drivers Rusty and Kenny Wallace were guests today in a segment aired toward the end of Dayside w/Linda Vester (July 1, 2004, 1:00 p.m. ET). Introducing them, Vester quickly said something about a "new reality show on FX...The NASCAR 360." (Comment follows.)

Subliminals, or Implying Something That Isn't

June 28, 2004 5:36 PM EDT

Host John Gibson and his guest Assad Ali, an Iraqi-American expatriate, spoke in positive terms about the transfer of soveriegnty to Iraq, while FOX aired a clip of Arab men singing, clapping hands, dancing, smiling, beating drums, waving American flags and generally having a great time. The casual viewer, and even the not-so-casual viewer, would immediately assume this clip was footage shot in Iraq on June 28, 2004 after news of the handover reached the general populace.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

It's a Love Fest, but Literally, Don't Let Bad News Get in the Way!

It's 11:16 p.m. ET on June 28, 2004, the day "sovereignty" was transferred to Iraq "two days early!" Approximately five hours ago, Al Jazeera reported that Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, a US soldier captured in Iraq in April (but forgotten by the press), has been murdered. Since then, the BBC.com, Haaretz, and London's The Guardian report the same. No US television news outlet that I'm flipping to is, or has, carried this news yet.

At 8:30 p.m ET, (more than three hours ago), I saw breaking news about this on tonights BBC "World News" broadcast.