**Written by Doug Powers Tomorrow is the final night of Katie Couric’s stint as anchor of CBS Evening News, at which point Scott Pelley will take the reigns, lean forward even more and possibly face-plant the entire operation once and for all. Everybody knows that Couric is the run-of-the-mill media elite liberal, but how in the world did she manage to conceal it so effectively? Here’s a montage of five years worth of Katie Couric objectivity that would make Edward R. Murrow himself well up with pride: (h/t Media Research Center ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Video: Katie Couric’s Most Objective Moments at CBS
**Written by Doug Powers Scott Pelley, who will take over for Katie Couric next month as anchor of the CBS Evening News, dropped by Washington DC’s CBS affiliate to let them know his plans for the broadcast. Pelley had better be careful, lest the first story he covers as anchor of the CBS Evening News be about MSNBC filing a trademark infringement lawsuit against the CBS Evening News. By way of Brent Baker at Newsbusters , here’s what Pelley told the DC affiliate: We’re going to cover hard news. We’re going to be aggressive about that. We’re going to be leaning forward. Did CBS hire Spike Lee for their new image campaign? Part of the problem for CBS with Couric as anchor is that she caused many viewers to lean forward… to change the channel. Will Pelley correct or worsen that? All I know is that Al Gore will be a lot more likely to be watching starting next month. I’m sure Doug Ross won’t mind if Pelley wants to borrow this “Lean Forward” logo to use for his CBS broadcast. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
Despite claiming victory on Wednesday after the president released his long-form birth certificate, Donald Trump is still in the news regarding the birther issue. This time, though, it’s not about the actual document. Rather, it seems Trump is in a war of words with CBS veteran newscaster Bob Schieffer. As the news media was in a frenzy yesterday after the president’s move, CBS’s Katie Couric interviewed Schieffer on his thoughts regarding the issue and Trump. That’s when Schieffer suggested Trump is a racist: “I want to go on to what Donald Trump said after he said ‘this is out’ and everything. He said, ‘we need to look at his grades and see if he was a good enough student to get into Harvard Law School.’ That’s just code for saying he got into law school because he’s black. This is an ugly strain of racism that’s running through this whole thing. We can hope that that kinda comes to an end too.” That outraged Trump today, who in an interview with TMZ shot back : Trump tells TMZ … “That is a terrible statement for a newscaster to make. I am the last person that such a thing should be said about.” We asked Trump if he was suggesting Obama got into Harvard Law School through affirmative action. He said, “Affirmative action is out there. It’s a program that is available. But I have no idea whether it applies in this case. I’m not suggesting anything.” Trump would not say if he supports or opposes affirmative action. But he’s clearly trying to douse the flames he ignited, by saying, “Grades are the least important aspect of somebody being president. It’s not a big subject for me.”
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Trump Hits Back at CBS Veteran Bob Schieffer for Suggesting He’s a Racist
At Pamela’s, ” Libyan Protesters Beg for Bush: ‘Bring Bush!’ “: Has Katie Couric bit off her tongue yet? Not to worry, the jihadists she so enthusiastically defends and abets will do it soon enough. Just as the world is undergoing a seismic shift in the arab regimes and dictatorships, the American media landscape is desperately in need of a revolution. The old media must be overthrown. You’ll notice that Reuters buried the lede. “Bring Bush! Make a no fly zone, bomb the planes,” shouted soldiers Imagine that. Ayatollah Obama has achieved what would have been thought to be impossible: worldwide calls for the return of George Bush. They pleaded for Bush in Iran, too, when they were being slaughtered in the street while Obama ……. ate ice cream .
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Bring Bush! Libyan Rebels Beg U.S. to Bomb Muammar Gaddafi
**Written by Doug Powers NPR’s Scott Simon longs for the peaceful days of Walter Cronkite, when horrible events like the Tucson shootings were unheard of : SIMON: People have observed over the past few years, for example, that, you know, this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night. Tim Graham at Newsbusters confirms Simon’s claims about the peacefulness of the Cronkite era**. (**Not counting the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, the shooting of George Wallace, two attempts on Gerald Ford’s life or the wild over exaggeration about the size of Cronkite’s nightly audience) And let’s not forget the vicious rabbit attack on Jimmy Carter. Simon’s laughable claim is perhaps more of a mourning for a bygone era when dinosaur media ruled the earth and a scant few voices controlled dissemination of information to America than it is an indictment of the current political climate, but either way, he’s fooling himself. In a literal sense, Simon might be correct — things like this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night. That’s because 63 million people didn’t watch Walter Cronkite every night . Nothing like this happened when 30 million people watched Katie Couric every night either. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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NPR Host Longs for More Peaceful Era of Walter Cronkite
VIDEO: That Glock 19 is your friend, regardless of what Katie Couric tells you.
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Katie Couric believes America needs a Cosby-like American Muslim family show on television to combat islamophobia. In other words to carry on the myth of Islam as the religion of peace and American Muslims as happy-go-lucky Americans. Canada has just such a show, Little Mosque on the Prairie,” and it is “wildly popular.” Amusingly, in the
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At Politico : After seven silent weeks, Gen. David Petraeus begins aggressive messaging on Afghanistan: David Gregory announced yesterday that he will broadcast “Meet the Press” from Kabul next Sunday, with Petraeus’ first U.S. interview since he took command in Afghanistan. That will launch a spate of appearances that are being spread out over three weeks so Americans will be more likely to hear his message, even during the August doldrums. This week, Petraeus will begin communicating with the Afghan people. Then after “Meet,” the general will do the BBC later that week. The following week, Petraeus has sit-downs with “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric, then Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, who’s returning from breast-cancer treatment. At month’s end, George Stephanopoulos will take “Good Morning America” on the road to see the general. Major U.S. and European print and radio outlets will be sprinkled in. Then in the weeks that follow, the general plans to keep up a strong battle rhythm of engaging with the media and making his case.
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Gen. David Petraeus Plans Three-Week Media Blitz to Build Support for Afghan War
