Group Points Out O’Reilly Race Comments
Associated Press
By David Bauder
NEW YORK (AP) — After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly told a radio audience he “couldn’t get over the fact” that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia’s and other restaurants.
“It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun,” he said. “And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”
O’Reilly said his fellow patrons were tremendously respectful as he ate dinner with civil rights activist Al Sharpton.
O’Reilly Attacks Media Matters for Posting Harlem Remarks
Fox News Host Riled Over Exposure of Racially Charged Statements
Yesterday, Rick Sanchez, host of CNN’s Out in the Open, reported that Bill O’Reilly attacked Media Matters for America for documenting racially charged comments he made on his nationally syndicated radio program, calling it a “hatchet job.” The prominent conservative cable news and talk radio host is furious that Media Matters has brought his damaging statements to the public’s attention yet again.
Report: Black and White and Re(a)d All Over
Op-Ed Pages Dominated by Right
Unprecedented New Study of U.S. Dailys Shows Conservatives with Distinct Advantage in Syndicated Op-Eds
Report is Available Online at:
http://www.mediamatters.org/reports/oped/
Media Matters for America today released “Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns,” a comprehensive and unprecedented analysis of nationally syndicated columnists from nearly 1,400 newspapers or 96 percent of English-language U.S. daily newspapers. Because of the time, labor, and difficulty involved in gathering such a wide scope of detailed information about America’s newspapers, no one has ever before determined exactly where syndicated columnists are published. The report shows that conservative syndicated columnists are carried in far more newspapers, with much greater audience reach than their progressive counterparts, giving them a distinct advantage in the marketplace of ideas.
Is Glenn Beck the Most Annoying Man on TV?
GQ Magazine
Or Does it Only Seem That Way?
By Benjamin Wallace
“Here’s a comment that will get me fired,†Glenn Beck says from behind the custom-made standing desk (bad back) that dominates his tiny CNN office in New York. In the flesh, he is thinner, less pink, and softer-spoken than the close-talking guy on television. Still wearing radio casual—bleach-spotted jeans, Adidas sneakers—from the morning’s three-hour broadcast, he forks down a take-out salad while going over material with one of his writers for tonight’s TV show, which will be devoted largely to the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. “This guy makes you have respect for suicide bombers,†Beck says, trying out today’s career-immolating zinger. “At least they’re killing themselves because they believe in something larger.â€
“I love that,†says the writer, who stands on the other side of the desk. “And it’s true.â€
“Whew,†Beck says. “I can’t wait for the letters we’re going to get.â€
On the Glenn Beck spectrum, this is actually pretty tame, but post-Imus, the specter of getting canned for ill-chosen words is much on the minds of everyone in the provoking/offending business. And Beck, with his Headline News gig, has more to fear than most. In the past week alone, Al Franken has gone on CNN to call for Beck’s firing, and Media Matters, the liberal watchdog Web site that led the Imus pile-on, has short-listed Beck for similar treatment.
Tucker on Receiving End of Bashing After the Host Boasts of Hitting Gay Man
New York Daily News
By Helen Kennedy
MSNBC TV host Tucker Carlson fought back against accusations of gay-bashing yesterday after he crowed on the air about beating a man who “bothered” him in a mall bathroom.
“It infuriates me to be called a gay-basher, since he was the predator, not me,” Carlson said.
Carlson, a conservative pundit known for the trademark bow tie he wore when he co-hosted CNN’s “Crossfire” shoutfest, now hosts “Tucker” on MSNBC.
In an on-air discussion Tuesday about Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest for making advances in a men’s room, Carlson volunteered he had been “bothered” in a Washington bathroom 20 years ago.
I was on ABC News’ iCaught tonight…
Karl Frisch, a spokesman for Media Matters for America, appeared on ABC News’ iCaught on Tuesday, August 21 at 9/8c. ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper and Frisch discussed the use of online video in holding the media accountable and the effect it had in toppling Don Imus.
08/21/07: Karl Frisch on ABC’s iCaught: QT | WMV
Immigrant Advocates Demand Radio Station Fire Host for Remarks
San Francisco Chronicle
Hunger Strikers Should Starve to Death, He Said
By Kantele Franko
Bay Area immigrant rights advocates say radio host Michael Savage should be fired for using hateful language when suggesting supporters of an immigration reform bill who fasted in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza last week should starve to death.
During a July 5 broadcast of “The Savage Nation,” his nationally syndicated talk show, Savage said, “I would say let them fast till they starve to death … because then we won’t have a problem about giving them green cards because they’re illegal aliens.”
More than 30 protesters publicly denounced Savage and the on-air remarks outside San Jose City Hall on Thursday and said his comments should not be disregarded on the basis of constitutional free speech.
Migrant-Bill Backlash Targets Talk Radio
The Arizona Republic
Media Critics Press for Change in Broadcasting Law
By Daniel Gonzalez
Talk radio’s role in killing immigration reform in Congress is spurring a backlash.
Some Democrats in Congress, maddened about radio attacks on the bill, would like to revive a federal rule that requires broadcasters to present opposing views on important issues.
Those on both sides of the issue agree talk radio played a major role in derailing the Senate immigration bill.
The constant drumbeat on talk radio stations across the country galvanized voters to jam the Senate’s phone system with angry calls.
Political Talk: All Male, All White, All The Time
The Newark Star-Ledger
By Alicia C. Shepard
One Sunday, as I struggled on the elliptical machine, I glanced up at NBC’s “Meet the Press” on a nearby TV and was stunned. Host Tim Russert was interviewing not one but three bright female journalists in a roundtable discussion about the war in Iraq.
I remember thinking: “That is so cool.” Then I paused and realized that my tiny moment of pride at my gender’s success in breaking into the Big Time political talk arena was so remarkable only because it is so rare.
Are white males just smarter, more articulate and better informed than the rest of the population? If the powerful Sunday morning political shows or prime-time cable television talk shows are any reflection of society, they are. At least, that’s what the bookers, hosts and producers of these shows must think, because they aren’t putting women or people of color on them.
WRKO Drops Imus Producer as Guest Co-Host
The Boston Globe
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
After several days of criticism for inviting Bernard McGuirk onto its airwaves, WRKO yesterday canceled the appearance by the former producer for shock jock Don Imus.
McGuirk was slated to begin a three-day stint tomorrow as a guest on a talk show hosted by former House speaker Tom Finneran - an appearance that station officials had said was a tryout for the man who first said the word “ho” in the on-air conversation that led to Imus’s downfall.
George Regan, a spokesman for Entercom Communications, the parent company of WRKO, declined to say why the invitation was rescinded. But over the weekend, criticism of the station mounted after statements from a 1997 interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” surfaced. In the interview, Imus was quoted using a racial slur to say that part of McGuirk’s job was to tell jokes about blacks on “Imus in the Morning.”
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