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Flash forward to 2004. Three 24-hour cable news channels compete for viewers. CNN captures the liberals, Fox News the conservatives and MSNBC the viewers who are transfixed by long acronyms. Fox News is winning the cable battle, and during the Republican National Convention it even beat the networks. At the same time, media intellectuals, pundits and ordinary Americans alike agree that Fox exhibits a fairly extreme bias towards the right. Eighty-nine percent of Americans trust museums for unbiased information. Thirty-six percent trust television news. These numbers don’t really add up. Americans in the twenty...
...this under-30 demographic, Kerry’s lead has given way to a neck-and-neck race with 45 percent of voters for Kerry and 44 percent for Bush, according to a poll reported by MSNBC last week...
...first, the appearance of such offensive comments in a nationally circulated publication was bewildering, almost unbelievable. But it didn’t take long to recall other examples of public racism against Asian Americans. The 1998 Olympics came to mind, when MSNBC headlines boasted, “American Beats Out Kwan,” in reference to Michelle Kwan’s second-place finish to Tara Lipinski. Never mind that Kwan was also an American, representing the USA in the Olympics. And apparently no one took to heart the protests that were made after the headline appeared; the mistake...
...probably the only person in the campaign that had an idea of what was going on from all different angles,” says Felix Schein, the MSNBC reporter on the campaign trail. “But he never betrayed what he knew at any point. He was really a rock of stability in a place where things were very chaotic and hectic...
...forgotten you had. Thus in this Lenten season the Rev. Byron Shafer, pastor of Rutgers Presbyterian Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, gave his first atonement sermon in "eight or nine years." Chicago First United Methodist's Blackwell found himself lined up with two other talking heads on MSNBC, debating the topic as if it were an election issue or celebrity trial. And back in Geneva, the issue continues to fascinate the Bible students and their church's associate rector, Tony Welty. "The question is," says Welty, "O.K., if this really happened, why did it happen? Why did Christ...