Media Matters - Jessica Yellin

Media Matters - Jessica Yellin http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/jessica_yellin This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Jessica Yellin en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America CNN still promoting the notion that progressives don't vote their values and aren't "pro-family" http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180008 Ed Henry and Jessica Yellin joined the growing list of CNN anchors and reporters who have embraced the lexicon of social conservatives, characterizing Christian conservative voters as "values voters" and equating an opposition to abortion rights with "family values." Henry suggested that support for reproductive choice is not a "family value" and that being pro-choice is inconsistent with being "pro-family," while Yellin suggested that those who are not "white evangelical voters" vote on something other than values. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:12:05 EST Media falsely characterized Bill Clinton, Obama as having "lashed out," "fire[d] back angrily" at reporters http://mediamatters.org/items/200801240005 CNN's Wolf Blitzer asserted, as did a Washington Post blog entry, that Bill Clinton "lashed out" at CNN congressional correspondent Jessica Yellin after she asked him a question following a campaign event in South Carolina that day. Recounting the exchange to Blitzer, Yellin agreed, "He lashed out, Wolf." Similarly, an ABCNews.com report described a "testy exchange" between Barack Obama and New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny. But videos of the two exchanges do not support these sensational descriptions. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801240005 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:37:41 EST CNN's Situation Room ignored McCain's missed votes in back-to-back segments http://mediamatters.org/items/200711050007 Repeating an earlier report on Senate votes missed by Sen. Barack Obama, CNN's Jessica Yellin again failed to note that Republican Sen. John McCain has missed more votes than Obama -- as well as any other senator who is running for president and all but one currently serving senator -- since Congress convened in January. Yellin's report was followed by another by correspondent Susan Candiotti that referenced McCain's ridiculing of an earmark for a museum at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival; Candiotti did not note that McCain missed the vote on the earmark he criticized. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711050007 Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:35:42 EST CNN's Yellin did not challenge McConnell by noting GAO report also mandated by law http://mediamatters.org/items/200709050006 CNN's Jessica Yellin uncritically reported Sen. Mitch McConnell's claim that a recently released report on the Iraq war by the Government Accountability Office was "not equal" in significance to an upcoming report from the Bush administration because the administration's report "is written into law." In fact, the GAO report is required by the same law as the president's report. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709050006 Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:56:48 EST Media failed to resolve question of which members of Congress Freedom's Watch ads are targeting http://mediamatters.org/items/200708240012 In reports on a recent advertisement buy by Freedom's Watch in support of the Iraq war, media reports have failed to resolve the question of which members of Congress the ad buys are targeting, despite the apparent newsworthiness of the issue. For instance, The Washington Post suggested that the ad campaign is an attack on Democrats, a suggestion repeated by Time's Karen Tumulty; other reports have not even mentioned the issue; while still others have asserted that the ads target both Democrats and Republicans. However, according to analyses by war opponents, the buys target mainly Republicans, a charge Freedom's Watch called "propaganda by our enemies." http://mediamatters.org/items/200708240012 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:51:36 EST Media reports on Freedom's Watch advertisements don't note misinformation http://mediamatters.org/items/200708240001 Media outlets including CNN, NBC, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times reported on a recent advertisement buy in support of the war in Iraq but ignored that two of the four advertisements link the Iraq war to 9-11. http://mediamatters.org/items/200708240001 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:26:34 EST CNN's Yellin failed to identify jailed lobbyist, disgraced members of Congress as Republicans http://mediamatters.org/items/200708090004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708090004 Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:25:56 EST