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CBS's Seth Doane Puffs Caroline Kennedy's 'Fairy Tale' Introduction to Ambassadorship

scott.whitlock — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:51:21 +0000

Scott Whitlock

According to CBS's Seth Doane, even the "fairy tale" introduction of Caroline Kennedy hasn't kept the U.S. ambassador to Japan from running into some problems in her new job. Doane highlighted a protest of new military bases in Okinawa, Japan. Yet, while the reporter seemed mildly irritated about having to whisper during a Kennedy press conference (and not being able to ask questions), his co-hosts didn't appear too bothered.

— Scott Whitlock is Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Scott Whitlock on Twitter.

Joe Biden's Gaffes Go International, But All Three Networks Skip

scott.whitlock — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:54:40 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Vice President Joe Biden unleashed another gaffe on Tuesday while talking to female employees at an internet company in Japan. According to the Examiner, Biden was "scheduled to address the company's female employees" and "discuss the economic impact of women in the corporate world." Instead, while talking to the women, he blurted, "Do your husbands like you working full time?"

— Scott Whitlock is Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Scott Whitlock on Twitter.

NBC's Mitchell Swoons: Caroline Kennedy 'Born to Be an Ambassador'

kyle.drennen — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:29:42 +0000

Kyle Drennen

On Thursday's NBC Today, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell couldn't contain her glee over Carolina Kennedy being appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan: "Caroline Kennedy was almost born to be an ambassador, a picture perfect daughter in a telegenic first family. She captured our hearts all the way through her intense personal heartbreak." [Listen to the audio]

Salon.com Celebrates Androgynous Japanese Ad

julia.seymour — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:45:11 +0000

Cheers ‘changing way gender is portrayed in advertising.’

Matt Philbin

If there’s any remaining doubt that the left-wing media have little but contempt for traditional Americans, it ain’t the fault of Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams.

In an August 26 piece fittingly reposted at the far-left moon-bat site Alter-Net, Williams lovingly described a Japanese Toyota ad featuring an androgynous model while getting in a shot at America.

NPR Uses 'The China Syndrome,' 'On the Beach' to Hype Radiation Threat

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Matthew Balan

On Monday's All Things Considered, NPR's Bob Mondello used movies about fictional nuclear disasters, such as "The China Syndrome" and "Silkwood," to play up atomic energy's hazards. Mondello especially highlighted the 1959 movie "On the Beach" as supposedly coming the closest to the portraying a real-life radiation catastrophe, such as the ongoing crisis at the Japanese nuclear plant.

No Nukes: How Three Mile Island was Disaster for Media Credibility

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:35:00 +0000

Julia A. Seymour

The massive earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan on March 11 claimed many lives and knocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant offline reviving decades-old fears as well as liberal media bias about nuclear power.

MSNBC's Martin Bashir Gives Soapbox to Anti-Nuclear Activist

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:07:00 +0000

Alex Fitzsimmons

On his eponymous program Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir interviewed a liberal environmental activist aiming to scare viewers into believing that nuclear energy poses an imminent threat to the safety of the United States.

ABC Touts Anti-Nuke Activist, Ex-Aide to a Lefty Organization as Experts on Crisis in Japan

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:18:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Good Morning America on Monday featured two liberal experts to explain the escalating crisis in Japan, but didn't identify the leftist background of either. Co-host George Stephanopoulos identified Joe Cirincione as someone "who has also spent many years inside the U.S. government dealing with nuclear issues."

Chris Matthews Sees Japan Earthquake an 'Opportunity' for Obama to Remind People He Was Born in Hawaii

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:30:00 +0000

Ken Shepherd

Hundreds if not thousands of people are dead due to a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

CNBC's Santelli Warns U.S. 'Could End Up Worse than Japan' and 'Lost Decade'

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:44:57 +0000

Jeff Poor

Fresh off his Tea Party cover story in the June 24 Weekly Standard, CNBC’s Rick Santelli foresees what could be classified as an economic black hole for the United States of America.

Whaling Away on Japan's 'Far Right' on the Front Page

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Hiroko Tabuchi's article on "far right" threats against anti-whaling expose "The Cove" is fat with unflattering labels generally absent from the paper's coverage of truly violent far-left political groups.

Clay Waters

Times Watch doesn't have an informed position on Japanese whaling. But you don't need one to question whether the Times' front-page story by Hiroko Tabuchi in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday needed quite so many "far right" labels to get its point across: "Japan's Noisy Far Right Blocks Oscar Winner on Dolphin Kills."

You certainly won't see this big a clump of "far left" descriptions in a front-page story on U.S. politics, or even international politics:

Rape Games?

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:52:00 +0000

Japanese video-game manufacturers have made sick video games centered on raping girls and women. Rape is not an option on the menu; rape is the entire point of the game.

L. Brent Bozell III

Many - too many - red-blooded American boys grow up on Japanese video-game systems from Sony and Nintendo. Their cultural interests can extend into Japanese cartoons ("anime") and some even discover Japanese pornographic cartoons ("hentai"). How so? Boys play games and watch cartoons like the "Dragon Ball Z" series, but can quickly surf the Web and find related cartoon titles like "Dragonball X," only to learn they are hard-core porn.

'Heroes' of Discovery Channel Show Use Lasers on Japanese Whalers

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:11:23 +0000

Julia A. Seymour

The Discovery Channel program “Whale Wars” portrays the radical activists of the left-wing Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as heroes going up against Japanese whaling ships, instead of the pirate-like harassers they really are.

Outcry Over Obama's Deep Bow Just 'Ballyhoo From Right-Wing Bloggers'

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Helene Cooper has the Times mantra down pat, repeating the same charge she wrote about on Monday: Conservative bloggers made a controversy out of Obama's long, deep bow to the emperor of Japan a controversy.

Clay Waters

In a Thursday "news analysis," "Pacific Trip Encounters Rough Waters," reporters Helene Cooper and Martin Fackler repeated the Times mantra from Monday: Fix any controversy over Obama's long, deep bow to the emperor of Japan on "right-wing bloggers."

Times 'Bows' to Obama Officials Who Say President Observed Protocol in Japan

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:54:00 +0000

Besides dismissing concerns over Obama's deep bow in Japan as attacks from "conservative American bloggers," reporters Helene Cooper and David Barboza see Obama making "progress" in getting Russia on board for "possible tough new sanctions against Iran." We'll see.

Clay Waters

The Times dismissed the controversy over Obama's long, deep bow before the Emperor of Japan over the weekend - a story all over the Drudge Report and conservative blogs - in its Monday story praising Obama's "progress" in getting Russia on board for sanctions against Iran: "In China, Obama to Press For Tough Stance on Iran - Seeking to Replicate Progress With Russia."

And if that "progress" with Russia fades, will the Times follow up? Watch this space.