Don Irvine

Parker Spitzer Takes on Conservative Critic

Conservative direct mail guru Richard Viguerie who criticized CNN’s liberal tilt in a recent column appeared on Parker Spitzer to back up his claims.

Matthews Makes Bizarre Comparison of Tea Party and Chilean Miners

Chris Matthews host of Hardball made a strange if not gruesome comparison of the heroic Chilean miners and the Tea Party.

O’Reilly Stirs Up ‘The View’

Bill O’Reilly shook up The View when he accused Muslims of attacking America on 9/11 causing Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to storm off the set.

Obama’s Optimism Fades

President Obama has hit the campaign trail and is trying to keep a stiff upper lip in the process but even he acknowledges that things don’t look good for the Democrats in November.

PBS Loses L.A. Station, Who’s Next?

The Public Broadcasting System suffered a major blow with the announcement that their Los Angeles affiliate KCET is leaving the system, SESAME STREET, PBS NEWSHOUR, MASTERPIECE and NOVA

Left Gripes About Conservative Media Bias

The One Nation rally on Saturday didn’t receive the kind of media coverage that they deserved according to one observer from the left.

Teachers Protest L.A. Times Over Evaulations

The L.A. Unified School District Teachers Union made good on their promise to protest the Los Angeles Times over the papers release of evaluations of over 6,000 teachers in the district.

Surprise! Online Subscribers Worth Less

According to one analyst moving newspapers to an online model may cut costs but brings in far less revenue than needed.

Dems Get Media PAC Money Too!

The Democrats and the news media have been in a tizzy since it was revealed that Rupert Murdoch’s News America PAC gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June.

Teachers Union Calls for Boycott of L.A. Times

The Los Angeles Times is facing a boycott from the city’s teachers union after publishing a study that analyzed the effectiveness of over 6,000 elementary school teachers.

CNN Beats Fox, On the Internet

CNN the onetime cable news ratings king may find some solace in the fact that they are soundly beating their nemesis Fox News on the internet. From Mediaweek

Newspapers Lose More Ground to the Internet

Newspapers lost more ground to the internet and television as a source of information according to the latest study from the Digital Future Project. From E & P:

Newspapers continue to be seen as less important at their primary job — being sources of information – according to the latest edition of the nine-year-old Digital Future Project from the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism.

Politically Correct Donations Only

The Washington Post reported Last Saturday that the Smithsonian Institution has put on hold a $5 million donation from the American Petroleum Institute over objections from two of the museum complex's Board of Regents including U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) about accepting money from the oil industry for a project on the world's oceans.