I think I like her better than her husband. (The Hill) — Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has drawn his share of unflattering news coverage, but it’s the journalist in his family who is the more outspoken media critic. Brown’s wife of nearly 25 years, Gail Huff, is a longtime television reporter who now works for ABC’s Washington affiliate. When the couple appeared together at a Newseum event Saturday on politics and the media, Huff sharply criticized political coverage in the Beltway, particularly involving Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee. “I thought the coverage of her when she was on the ticket was sexist,” Huff said in response to a question from the moderator. “I found it difficult many times to watch. The kind of questions she was asked were very different than the kind of questions [Sen. John] McCain was asked.” Palin faced intense criticism during that campaign following a shaky interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, when she struggled to answer a question about what newspapers she read. “Part of that I understand is cultural and social. But still, we as journalists have to be above that,” Huff said. “We have to ask the important questions.” She said the media should “back off [Palin] coverage unless she decides to be a candidate.”
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Donald Trump continues to dominate the headlines. Yesterday Mitt Romney threw his hat in the ring, but few noticed. Trump remained the center of attention – the primary politician discussed and/or interviewed by the cable news channels, evening news shows and morning news programs. But, the key questions remain unanswered: Why is Trump doing this? Is
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Donald Trump continues to dominate the headlines. Yesterday Mitt Romney threw his hat in the ring, but few noticed. Trump remained the center of attention – the primary politician discussed and/or interviewed by the cable news channels, evening news shows and morning news programs. But, the key questions remain unanswered: Why is Trump doing this? Is
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And that’s the problem, too many Muslims are unwilling to confront their religion… (CBS News) – Sharif El-Gamal, the developer behind the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” told CBS News’ Scott Pelley that it never crossed his mind that the location of the project was too close to the site of the Sept. 11 attacks. Asked why not, he replied, “Because I did not hold myself or my faith accountable for that tragedy.” In an interview airing tonight on the CBS “Evening News” and later on “60 Minutes,” El-Gamal discussed the uproar over Park 51, the proposed Islamic cultural center two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center. El-Gamal describes himself as “an American, a New Yorker, born in Methodist Hospital Brooklyn, to a Polish Catholic mother and an Egyptian father.”
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Yesterday, August 24, 2010, this story headlined in Politico: CBS ties news ratings low Last week, “CBS Evening News” tied the all-time ratings low set last summer for a network evening news broadcast, TV Newser reports . An average of 4.89 million total viewers tuned into CBS for evening news last week, behind 6.51 million for ABC and 7.42 million for NBC. On October 16, 2006 — almost four years ago — I noted this about Katie Couric’s takeover of the CBS anchor chair. After seeing her ratings briefly skyrocket with an appearance from Rush Limbaugh in a “free speech” segment, Couric’s ratings were almost immediately headed south. I wrote: CBS and Ms. Couric’s failure illustrates a point that was easily predictable before Katie even sat down in the anchor chair. Putting Rush Limbaugh on CBS air in a “free speech” segment certainly pumped Couric’s ratings for a moment. But conservatives — Reagan were he here and surely Limbaugh himself — realized exactly what the problem was that lie ahead. CBS tried to demonstrate that they were free of liberal bias by giving ol’ Rush a few seconds of airtime. What they had no intention of doing was eliminating the liberal bias of the show’s writers, producers and reporters, much less of Ms. Couric herself. Result? The new boss is the same as the old boss. The philosophical presentation of the new CBS News hasn’t changed a whit from the days when Dan or Walter or Bill Moyers looked somberly into the lens to insist they were telling the news “the way it was.” Still, there had to be a terrifying “ping” when CBS execs realized that Rush Limbaugh brought higher ratings to CBS News than Dan Rather ever could. Could — would — that ever happen? Would they have the guts to make “America’s anchorman” the CBS anchorman? The people in charge of CBS News would sooner crunch down on a cyanide tablet before naming Rush Limbaugh or any other conservative the anchor and managing editor of their show. Even if it meant winning the ratings for the next century. Fair and balanced is not now or ever in the cards at CBS, and Ms. Couric’s ratings have tumbled accordingly. Besides, why would Rush Limbaugh want a demotion? It is now 2010. ” The Rush Limbaugh Show ” – featuring Rush as “America’s real anchorman” – cruises along in ratings heaven . I ts host not that long ago sign ed a new contract for a reported $400 million over 8 years. And Couric’s CBS Evening News is in the sad state reported yesterday by Politico . Will the CBS folks learn anything from this umpteenth lesson in media? Naaaaaaaaaaaah. Enough said.
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