In which CNN’s Roland S. Martin eats crow for making Twitter comments about David Beckham’s new H&M underwear line that were perceived as homophobic. (ht imwithkanye)
Oh good. Looks like CNN’s live SOTU feed has all the fun-to-watch background stuff. Hopefully the audio will kick in at some point.
CNN declares Newt: Playing in the background at Newt’s HQ? Blur’s “Song 2.” WHOO HOO!
Watching CNN now. Hearing word that CNN might declare a winner in South Carolina right when the polls close 7 p.m. EDIT: They didn’t, but ABC and NBC both did.
In case you weren’t sure, President Obama is the projected winner of the Democratic Iowa Caucus. He is expected to receive all delegates.
Don’t be so stingy, Barack. Mind offering a few this way? We won’t do anything with them you wouldn’t do.
Hey, ABC, you spelled “Jake Tapper” wrong. While Jake Tapper gets screwed yet again by his employer, George Stephanopoulos pulls double-duty and Christiane Amanpour moves back to CNN full-time, while hanging out around the ABC wheelhouse.
FOX/CNN caught faking scenes of violent riots in Moscow | RT viaWikileaks
”the media has played a key role in creating a justification for regime change” // “the media tends to march in lock step with the govt, to showcase what the govt says is true, even if its later proven to be untrue.”
america is pure ratchetness if you ask me. she steals, she lies, she dont give a fuck.
i dare you to spend one hour a day on
@worldstar and one hour a day on@russiatoday and see how cool you are after 1 month.
Just watched this, but before you jump too quick: This report does the very same thing it accuses CNN and Fox News of doing. (By the way: Give us more evidence than a random sign that the average viewer can barely read in a fuzzy, low resolution video! And the CNN thing happened a year ago and is unrelated to the current protests.) “RT” stands for Russia Today, and its media coverage is clearly slanted towards Russian interests. Out of all the countries in the world to make their point with, they pick Ukraine and Georgia? This clip has a guy who says “the media tends to march in lockstep with the government,” on a network which is state-owned. Let’s be honest with ourselves before sharing videos like these. Every form of media has its own biases. Including the critics of other media outlets. Don’t pick one over the other. Watch both and make up your own mind. EDIT: The Atlantic Wire confirmed the issues with the Fox video.
There’s a new Cain accuser: Herman Cain’s denying the accusations live to Blitz. This is awesome.
We figure some of our readers have to have kids at this point, right? Have a young child that you’re looking to take care of? Making some stupid mistakes along the way, without realizing it? CNN’s got you covered — they threw together this list of ways to ensure your children are safe — a bunch of stuff that most parents normally tend to do without thinking about it. Do you catch yourself doing any of this?
So what I’m saying is it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn’t have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue.GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain • Expressing his views on abortion on Piers Morgan Tonight. We applaud Cain for being willing to split with his party’s orthodoxy, here, but in doing so he’s exposed himself to a damaging contradiction; he also said he believes life begins at conception, and that abortion was appropriate “under no circumstances.” What that means to a passionately anti-abortion GOP base is that Herman Cain, while believing a fertilized egg is in fact a human life, is not willing to defend that life through the law. And if he was striving for independent appeal (which wouldn’t work even if he supported abortion rights wholesale), his personal objection to abortion under any circumstance blunts that. Cain’s Twitter account has since said he is “100% pro-life,” which follows exactly with what he implied before; pro-life personally, but not legislating his opinion. This could be a critical blow to Cain’s recent success in GOP polling. source (via • follow)
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Hello, and welcome to yet another GOP debate! YAY WE’RE SO EXCITED! Hopefully Anderson Cooper won’t screw this up (don’t take any tips from Wolf Blitzer, bro). Here are a few things to look for during tonight’s debate:
Two of the fundamental attributes of good journalism are curiosity and a respect for the people on whom you report. Burnett got an “F” on both those counts with her Occupy Wall Street piece. Not only didn’t she listen hard enough to learn anything from the people in the group, she and her producers positioned the speakers to be seen as objects of derision. That is deplorable.David Zurawik, in a nice Baltimore Sun piece on Erin Burnett and Occupy Wall Street. (via markcoatney)
From one rich mogul to another: Former Turner Broadcasting owner Ted Turner, who knows a thing or two about running his mouth, says that Murdoch has made tactical errors in his handling of the phone-hacking scandal, including his claim that he didn’t know anything about the hacking. “Well, he should have known,” Turner said. “He was chairman of the board. He’s responsible. I took responsibility when I ran my company. You never heard me say, ‘Well, I didn’t know.’” The two moguls once famously feuded, after Turner claimed Murdoch’s media outlets (including Fox News, a direct rival to the Turner-founded CNN) were largely behind the Iraq war, because it helped his company. Turner says they eventually buried the hatchet, however, after he bought Rupert a bison burger and praised the Wall Street Journal. Well, this may perhaps change that situation once again. Heh. source
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