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Networks Focus on Romney “Gaffes” in 86% of Coverage of Trip Abroad

mrc.marketing — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:58:29 +0000

Gave Obama Free Pass in 2008

ALEXANDRIA, Va. --- The Media Research Center has released a new analysis of the 21 ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's trip to London, Israel and Poland between July 25 and July 31. The report’s findings are absolutely staggering. 18 of the 21 stories emphasized Romney’s perceived gaffes. That’s 86%!

Their analysis also found that:

Networks That Fawned Over Obama's World Tour Mock Romney's International 'Blunders'

scott.whitlock — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:46:41 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Mitt Romney's week-long international trip resulted in unrelentingly negative coverage from the big three broadcast networks, a stark change from the glowing press awarded to then-candidate Barack Obama's world tour in 2008. While Obama was treated like a rock star (from the Associated Press: "It's not only Obama's youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic...."), Romney endured a focus on gaffes and the trivial.

NYT Mag Writer Delights in 'Dizzy Exuberance' of London Rioters: Promotes Socialism, Annoying Subway Riders

clay.waters — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:47:22 +0000

Clay Waters

Novelist (and Socialist Workers Party member) China Mieville wrote the main essay for the London issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, "'Oh London, You Drama Queen.'" According to him, London is a mess of racism and youth alienation, and only free public housing and celebration of loud music on the tube will save it.

Alan Cowell the Anti-Capitalist Sees Still More 'Greed' in His New York Times Reporting

clay.waters — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:52:24 +0000

Clay Waters

London-based New York Times reporter Alan Cowell sympathized with the British off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday: "British Authorities Demolish Protest Camp at St. Paul's Cathedral."

Ugh: NYT Celebrates Fashion Sense of March Rioters in London

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:26:00 +0000

The Times asks of the March riots in London protesting reductions in government education spending: "What do you wear when protest and mayhem rock your world?"

Clay Waters

Hard to say which was in worse taste: The vulgar, amateurish puns that marked 'Youth Quake,' a story in the new Fall edition of the Times fashion magazine T, or the subject itself - a look at the March riots in London (the earlier ones over school fees, not the ones of August) from a...fashion perspective. "What do you wear when protest and mayhem rock your world?" asked the subhead.

London Reporter Suggests 'Cuts in Spending and Services' by Conservatives Led to Riots

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:44:00 +0000

Reporter Ravi Somaiya quickly got to the root of the London riots: "Economic malaise and cuts in spending and services instituted by the Conservative-led government have been recurring flashpoints for months....As the budget cuts take hold, risk of unemployment increases and social measures like youth projects are sacrificed, Mr. Beech said, and 'all logic says there will be an increase in antisocial behavior.'"

Clay Waters

Ravi Somaiya, reporter for the New York Times London bureau, suggested 'deep cuts in social services' on the part of the Conservative-led coalition government and "social deprivation" (whatever that means) may bear some blame for the riots and looting that wrecked neighborhoods in London.

Newt on G20 Protests: 'The Media is Always Happy to Cover the Anarchic and Violent Left'

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:39:29 +0000

Jeff Poor

With the G20 meeting in London, there have been raucous protests – clashes with police in riot gear, destruction of property at nearby banks and even the death of one man from a heart attack. And the media have gone out of their way to cover every sordid detail.

CACI's London Makes Strong Defense of 'Good Name'

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:57:54 +0000

Dan Gainor

Truth, it is said, is the first casualty in war. CACI International Inc. Chairman of the Board Jack London found that out the hard way. His company went to Iraq to help the war effort.

Reuters: Global Warming Impact Like 'Nuclear War'

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:56:28 +0000

Jeff Poor

Global warming might be a scary thing to some, but who would have thought on the level of a nuclear holocaust?

“Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday,” Jeremy Lovell of Reuters wrote on September 12. Lovell didn’t include any expert skeptical about climate change or its near-nuclear impact on the globe.

Times Reporter Accuses British Press of Portraying Pakistanis as "Pack of Terrorists"

admin — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:12:00 +0000

Times journalist Jane Perlez goes after journalists - from the left: "As her country hovers on the precipice of chaos, Ms. Lodhi, the high commissioner of Pakistan in Britain, holds down the fort in London, working all the angles to convince the British government and public alike that British Pakistanis are normal people, with aspirations like most Britons, and not, as the British media commonly like to portray them, a pack of terrorists."

Clay Waters

The "Saturday Profile" by Jane Perlez of Maleeha Lodhi, the high commissioner of Pakistan in Britain, featured an unusual instance of a Times reporter bashing fellow journalists (from the left, of course), when Perlez basically charged the British media with portraying British Pakistanis as "a pack of terrorists."

"Widening Public Skepticism" About Airline Terror Threat?

admin — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:28:00 +0000

So far, it's confined to the Times' newsroom.

Clay Waters

London correspondent Alan Cowell follows up Tuesday morning on the terror plot to blow up ten passenger planes ("Britain Charges 11 In Plane case; Bomb Fear Cited") and spread his usual unfounded skepticism of how urgent the terror threat really was.

Hypocrisy: Times Wants "To Celebrate What Worked" in British Anti-Terror Investigation

admin — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:17:00 +0000

And then, perhaps, run lead stories exposing the classified details of "what worked," thus wrecking the programs?

Clay Waters

Friday's lead editorial on the London plot opens with outrage that sounds a little contrived: "It comes like a punch to the gut, at times like these, when our leaders blatantly use the nation's trauma for political gain. We never get used to this. It never feels like business as usual.

Seeing Class Warfare on a Pro-London Website

admin — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:23:37 +0000

Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times.

Clay Waters

July 15, 2005

Seeing Class Warfare on a Pro-London Website