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MRC-TV: Brent Bozell on Hannity’s ‘Media Mash;’ Discusses Coverage of Oil Spill, Kagan Hearings, and Obama Agenda

Appearing on FNC’s “Hannity” on Thursday, Media Research Center President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell discussed the media’s left-wing slant on the latest issues during the weekly “Media Mash” segment. The first topic was NBC’s Matt Lauer fretting that Americans would not learn the “proper message” from the oil spill and curb their “appetite for oil.” Mr. Bozell pointed out that the media had learned nothing from the ClimateGate scandal and noted their determination to bring an end to offshore oil drilling. Another topic of discussion was the media’s fawning coverage of Elena Kagan, particularly by ABC’s Claire Shipman, who spoke of the Supreme Court nominee’s “personal charm” Bozell observed that he had never seen such a one-sided profile of someone in his life. The segment wrapped up with a look at NBC’s Chris Matthews and a panel of liberal pundits all describing President Obama’s left-wing policies as a “positive” in the November elections. Host Sean Hannity remarked “How about negative?” Bozell joked that the liberal panelists might be working for the RNC because of their encouragement for Obama to continue down such an unpopular road.   For the full segment, watch the video above or listen to the audio here .

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World Cup Soccer Sucks: infoMania Editorial

The entire world may be catching World Cup fever but our resident curmudgeon Ben Hoffman has been hating the sport for years. infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania . added by: Ben_Hoffman

Modern Lady: Work Place Attire

Worried about what to wear to work? Good! Because the media thinks it's the most important thing ever! Especially after all the hullabaloo over the too hot for Citibank employee Debrahlee Lorenzana. Join Modern Lady's Erin Gibson as she navigates the ups and downs, dos and don'ts, pros and cons, yea or nay's of workplace attire. In each episode of Modern Lady, Erin Gibson explores the often-conflicting ways in which today's media tells women to work, love, and be ladies. For more Erin visit: http://current.com/shows/infomania/modern-lady/ and Current TV infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania . added by: Erin_Gibson

The Last Airbender

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Ben Hoffman Hates Soccer: Here’s Why

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Kagan, BET Awards and Bong-Smoking Babies

From Supreme Court hearings to the BET Awards to allegedly high babies, Conor Knighton keeps us up to date on what the media’s been throwing at us this week.

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Elin Nordegren Woods: The Cost of Silence

They say silence is golden. In this case, think Fort Knox golden. We reported yesterday evening that the Tiger Woods divorce is final, or nearly final, and that his estranged wife Elin could receive a $750 million settlement. Today, additional sources say that while nothing has been officially filed, lawyers for both sides are close to reaching an agreement for “about $700 million.” That mammoth sum, which entails Elin Woods keep all details of Tiger’s life and cheating scandal confidential, has grown as negotiations have progressed. Elin has balked at the confidentiality clause, and thus driven up the price, not because she has a strong desire to tell all, but because it’s a bargaining chip. Smart woman. HARD BARGAIN : Elin Woods sure is driving one . While Tiges really does not want his wife to give any interviews or write a book about their life together, child custody has also been a contentious issue . “Elin does not want Tiger to have female friends around when he has the children,” a source tells People magazine. “She will not give in to anything less.” As far as who gets the kids when, Tiger has asked for one weekend a month, but with frequent golf travel, some flexibility may be required from both. Instead of taking one weekend a month, he could have Sam and Charlie for a long stretch, then not again for a few months, dependent on his schedule. For her part, Elin is tired of the media scrutiny and wants to relocate to Sweden , where she hails from and eventually wants the children to be educated. She has an estate in the Stockholm archipelago complete with a beach, dock, sauna and four separate houses, near family and longtime school friends. If Tiger agrees to that, she will also likely keep a second home in Jupiter, Fla., convenient to Woods’s nearly completed $80 million Jupiter Island estate.

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Megan Fox Talks Hollywood Marriages

‘[T]he couples that you see in the tabloids are being reported about even when there’s not even a problem,’ Fox tells Steppin’ Out magazine. By Jocelyn Vena Megan Fox Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images Megan Fox tied the knot last week with her longtime love, Brian Austin Green, in a very hush-hush ceremony in Hawaii. Never one to hold back on her opinions on various topics, such as her love of older men like Green and her tumultuous relationship with director Michael Bay, Fox is now speaking out about the often short shelf life of Hollywood marriages. She notes that it’s not just in Hollywood that she sees marriages dissolving. “I think couples generally aren’t staying together. The divorce rate is so high right now,” she tells next week’s Steppin’ Out magazine. “But I think [the reason it’s high in] Hollywood specifically is because of two things.” “Everything is so easily accessed in Hollywood. Whatever you want you have at your fingertips. So for a lot of people, that temptation is just too much,” she said. “You lose the ability to cherish something else because there are so many others out there just waiting for you.” The next problem, according to Fox? The amount of media coverage given to Hollywood’s high-profile relationships. “[T]he couples that you see in the tabloids are being reported about even when there’s not even a problem,” she said. “Being on cover after cover after cover, the relationship becomes even harder to maintain than it normally is — which isn’t easy to begin with. Your life being out there in the open is almost unbearable.” With all of that in mind, Fox says the way to make a Hollywood marriage work is “both people have to be incredibly strong people to make it through that. It’s sad, and I think the media is responsible for a lot of it. At least for planting the seed. Like I said earlier, actors are very insecure people to begin with.” Related Photos Lovebirds: Megan Fox And Brian Austin Green The Evolution Of: Megan Fox

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ABCBSNBC Lost One Million Viewers Last Quarter

The big three nightly news broadcasts, NBC Nightly, CBS Evening and ABC World, lost a combined one million viewers in the second quarter of 2010, according to TVNewser. These numbers are comparable to the first quarter , which saw Evening News and World News get their lowest average viewers ever, while NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage helped it get their highest average viewers since 2005. In the second quarter, NBC lost 440,000 viewers, ABC 260,000 and CBS 340,000. It was about this time last year that ABC and CBS’ news programs had their lowest ratings ever. These numbers are not at all surprising in light of the public’s continued distrust of the old media. As Newsbusters’ Rich Noyes wrote of a Rasmussen poll released earlier this month, “Perhaps as a result, the poll finds an astonishing two-thirds of the public (66 percent) say they are angry with the media, ‘including 33 percent who are very angry’ with the press.” Polls going back to 1997 displayed a continued public distrust with the news media. In a Pew survey , 54 percent of Americans believed that the news media “gets in the way of society solving its problems.” In 2006 a CBS poll showed 36 percent of adults had very little confidence in the news media. There is also an expanding array of media options, both on the air and online. Not only can many of the evening news programs be found online shortly after broadcast, but 24 hour news channels allow one to get the content of the nightly news well before the program is on, to say nothing of multimedia sites such as Huffington Post, Brietbart and others which allow consumers access to a lot of news and opinion. TVNewser also reports that the 24 hour channels are also losing viewers, though not at the same rate as evening news programs. ( Here , here and here .)

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Jeremy London’s Family Free to Talk

Filed under: Jeremy London , Celebrity Justice ” Mallrats ” actor Jeremy London just got shut down in court today … all because of that pesky United States Constitution. Jeremy was trying to get a restraining order against his mom and brother — prohibiting them from blabbing to the media. Jeremy… Read more

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