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...proof is in the polling. According to a recent CBS News poll, 46 percent of independents view Palin favorably, while Joe Biden musters only 31 percent. What’s more, 53 percent of registered voters approve of McCain’s choice for VP, while 48 percent are happy with Barack Obama’s. Who’s polarizing whom...
These are precisely the kinds of challenges that gave rise to Stand Up to Cancer, the advocacy group organized by CBS newscaster Katie Couric and eight other women, all of them connected to Hollywood, including Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, who has breast cancer. Says Couric, who lost her husband and sister to cancer: "It was clear to me and other people that this borders on the ridiculous. You ask yourself: What can be done?" SU2C has a scheduled Sept. 5 launch with an unprecedented three-network simulcast, hosted by Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson. It features a roster...
...first 24 hours. At the time it was a staggering number. This month, King is dipping his toe into the Internet yet again. To promote Just After Sunset - his first volume of short stories in six years - King's publisher, Scribner, has teamed up with Marvel Comics and CBS Mobile to produce and distribute an online comic adaptation of a previously unreleased story from the collection...
...point of Ramesh Ponnuru's commentary seems to be that Obama benefits from "plain old liberal bias" while John McCain suffers from it. But the claim that the mainstream media are "smitten with Obama" wasn't reflected in a recent analysis of nightly newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media and Public Affairs. It found that before Hillary Clinton dropped out of the Democratic race, evaluations of Obama expressed in the evening news were 62% positive vs. 38% negative; since then they have been only 28% positive and 72% negative. Before Clinton...
...have been announced and Reagan is not speaking during the presentation, the event will not provide fresh news. Before the compromise was reached, ABC had planned to share about nine minutes of its 17 1/2-hour coverage with its competitors; now the network estimates it will share about 16 minutes. CBS, NBC and CNN seem satisfied, though at least one executive still believes that ABC has overplayed its role in the ceremony. ''I was mad last October when I saw that ABC was calling it an 'ABC exclusive,' '' says Ed Turner, executive vice president of CNN. ''I haven't stopped being...