From the September 22 Late Show with David Letterman
10. Stick to stories everyone can agree on,
like cookies are delicious.
9. Move nightly "happy hour" to after the broadcast.
8. Stop hiring guys with crazy names like "Morley."
7. Can't figure out if a news story is true?
Let Judge Joe Brown decide.
6. Every time Mike Wallace tells a lie he gets a life-threatening electrical shock.
TV Anchor Injects Politics into Power Outage: “CBS News anchor Dan Rather, covering Thursday’s multi-state blackout
from New York, wondered if President Bush would cancel his fund-raising
dinner in California because of the power outage back East, a media
watchdog group reported. The Media Research Center (CNSNews.com’s
parent organization) also noted that if CBS were so concerned about the
blackout, maybe it could have cancelled some of its prime time line-up.”
In CNSNews.com
I wasn’t going to blog about this at all, but the media coverage
really pissed me off. Where the hell does the media get off playing
politics with a blackout like this? Shouldn’t they just report about it
without giving us an opinion? That’s what FOXNews did. They just
reported the facts, they didn’t editorialize in the form of “news
reporting.”
Why would anybody give Hillary so much airtime to tout her federal
regulation agenda for the energy industry? Why didn’t they balance her
comments with somebody in favor of de-regulation? If anybody says there
isn’t media bias, they’re crazy.
It’s a darn shame. The Palestinians didn’t get Dan Rather. He managed to get through the checkpoint just before the bomb went off.
