[VIDEO] CNN’s Van Jones on Trump’s Taxes: ‘That’s a Good Night for Donald Trump’
Posted: March 14, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360°, Bernie Sanders, CNN, Donald Trump, IRS, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Taxes, United States, Van Jones Leave a comment
On CNN Anderson Cooper 360, Political Analysts and Commentators Van Jones, Ryan Lizza, Matt Lewis, Gloria Borger, Paul Begala and Jason Miller discusses the 2005 President Trump’s Tax returns released by the White House showing that Trump paid $38 millions in taxes, though the legitimacy of the tax return has not been verified.
.@VanJones68: If all we get tonight is that Trump paid $38M to America’s government, that’s a good night for Trump https://t.co/kvYlq8udPf
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) March 15, 2017
[VIDEO] Rachel Maddow Says First Question to Trump on Her Show Would Be if He Would Put Her, Anyone Else in a Camp
Posted: January 5, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Trump Leave a comment
[PHOTO] LIVE Television: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews & Rachel Maddow Photobombed
Posted: November 7, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Chris Matthews, Left Wing, Liberal, Media bias, MSM, MSNBC, NBC, Rachel Maddow, Show Business, Television Leave a comment[VIDEO] MONTAGE: Stunned Cable News Anchors React to Eric Cantor Primary Defeat
Posted: June 11, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Anderson Cooper, Cable News, CNN, Eric Cantor, Fox News, Leaders of the United States House of Representatives, media, MSNBC, Primary election, Rachel Maddow, Republican Party (United States), Virginia 1 CommentNorth Korea Encourages People to Vote: Elections Celebrated in Rhyme
Posted: March 9, 2014 Filed under: Asia, Global | Tags: Kim Jong, Kim Jong-un, Korean Central News Agency, MSNBC, North Korea, Polling place, Rachel Maddow, Rodong Sinmun, Supreme People's Assembly, Workers' Party of Korea 1 Comment
North Korea’s Central Television is encouraging people to vote
State media in North Korea is using poetry to encourage people to vote in forthcoming elections, it appears.
Note: Who wouldn’t want to see the proud loyalists at MSNBC, America’s Official State Media, celebrate election day with programming like this? Imagine Chris Matthews reading “The Billows Of Emotion And Happiness”. Or Rachel Maddow rallying fellow Democrats with a rousing rendition of “We Go To The Polling Station”. It makes me tingle just thinking about it…
Official news agency KCNA reports that poets of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea have created election-themed poems in the run-up to polling day on 9 March. Titles include The Billows Of Emotion And Happiness, We Break Into Cheers From The Bottom Of Our Heart and We Go To The Polling Station.
[There’s actually a book available in the U.S. of Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea material, Immortal History: The Year 1932, available at Amazon, in paperback, for $59.52, though there’s not much information about it in the display page. At that price maybe it’s only for die-hard collectors of North Korean propaganda]
The poems are said to represent what the agency calls “the immutable will of all service personnel and people to remain loyal to the revolutionary leadership of Marshal Kim Jong-un“.
Deputies will be elected from 687 constituencies for the Supreme People’s Assembly, the rubber-stamp legislature that is dominated by the Korean Workers’ Party. Although other parties are represented in the election, all fall under the umbrella of the Fatherland Front, which is subservient to leader Kim Jong-un, who will be standing in the Paektusan constituency, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper says.
Memo to Chris Christie: They hate you
Posted: January 18, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Chris Christie, Christie, John McCain, National Review, New Jersey, Rachel Maddow, Rich Lowry, Steve Kornacki 1 CommentRich Lowry writes: If you don’t know who “they” are, you haven’t been watching the news or reading the papers.
Usually, it takes winning the GOP presidential nomination for a Republican media darling to experience such an onslaught of gleefully negative press coverage. John McCain was the straight-talking maverick right up until the moment he effectively clinched the nomination in 2008 — immediately triggering a thinly sourced New York Times report insinuating an affair with a lobbyist.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie has gotten his disillusioning out of the way early, if he needed it. An occupational hazard of a certain kind of Republican is wanting to be loved by the wrong people. If the past week hasn’t cured Christie of that tendency, nothing will.
NY Times Publishes Surprising Take on Media Bias
Posted: December 15, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Boston University, Connecticut, Fox News Channel, Media bias, New York Times, Rachel Maddow, Thomas Paine, United States Leave a commentJohn Sexton notes: Last weekend the NY Times published a “Sunday dialogue” which included a letter to the editor by a Connecticut bookseller and some responses. The topic was media bias. Both the letter–and some of the responses to it–present a perspective on media bias one might not expect to find in the NY Times.
Here’s a portion of the initial letter by Mark Godburn:
Relying on one source, or even on several sources with the same bias, will leave you with only part of the story.
That’s why the much maligned right-wing media is just as important as the so-called mainstream press. Fox News and others on the right certainly have a deeply embedded conservative bias, but the liberal bias on the other side is just as pervasive. Taken together, they roughly fill each other’s omissions.
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Fairness in journalism requires not that every story or point of view receive equal weight but that every valid position receive equal respect. Thus the pro-life position should be treated with the same validity as pro-choice; small-government conservatives with the same respect as tax-and-spend liberals; Republicans as more compassionate than they sound and Democrats as less omniscient than they think.
But since journalists and news organizations are partisan at heart, one must sift through the best reporting and punditry from each side of the journalistic divide and take all the biases and agendas into account to arrive at an informed understanding of any story.
MSNBC President Wants ‘Investigation’ Into Fox News’ ‘Impossible’ Ratings Gain
Posted: October 11, 2013 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: CNN, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Kelly, Megyn Kelly, MSNBC, Piers Morgan, Rachel Maddow 3 CommentsMegyn Kelly blew out Rachel Maddow in the key demo on Tuesday after losing to her the night before. “I have never seen it in all my years of cable,” whines Phil Griffin.

President of MSNBC Phil Griffin speaks during the ‘MSNBC’ panel during the NBC Universal portion of the 2011 Summer TCA Tour held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 2, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
(note: this is not satire, not parody. It’s an actual news story) Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, says there’s something fishy about Tuesday’s ratings for the Fox News Channel, which were up significantly from a day earlier when Fox News debuted its new schedule. And he wants an investigation.
“Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic. On the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours,” Griffin said at a briefing, according to TVNewser.
“Tuesday — you guys should be doing some investigations; I have never seen it in all my years of cable — same overnight, same everything. And they doubled their ratings in a day? It is impossible.” Griffin continued, “I have never seen it. They did election-night numbers in the demo Tuesday.”
The Nielsen numbers Griffin refers to include MSNBC beating Fox News on Monday in the adults 25-54 demographic at 7 p.m. and tying Fox News at 10 p.m.
At 9 p.m. on Monday, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show beat Fox News’ newThe Kelly File, hosted by Megyn Kelly, by a slim 10,000 viewers in the key demo.
By Tuesday, though, Fox News was back to its dominant self, with 573,000 in the key demo compared with 261,000 for MSNBC between the hours of 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Read the rest of this entry »
MSNBC Collapses to Fourth Place: Loses 12% of Viewers
Posted: July 30, 2013 Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere | Tags: Chris Hayes, CNN, Fox News Channel, HLN, KeithOlbermann, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Twitter Leave a commentThis year’s bad news for MSNBC has only gotten worse. The “Lean Forward” network has struggled in the ratings since the Boston Marathon bombings exposed the network’s glaring weakness when it comes to news gathering. MSNBC had hoped to turn that around by going all-in on with the Zimmerman, but it didn’t. Compared to last year in July, MSNBC was down -12% in total viewers and -4% in the 25-54 demo.