NewsBusters Interview: Zev Chafets on Fox News Founder Roger Ailes

April 2nd, 2013 3:05 PM
While most people have never heard of Roger Ailes, they have heard of his famous creation, the Fox News Channel. As basically the sole national mainstream news entity which is not operated on a left-of-center paradigm, Fox News has become almost public enemy number-one to the far left. For many of today’s illiberal liberals, the mere existence of Fox News is enough to induce spittle-flecked…

Frum's Review of Rush Book Ignored New Liberal Quotes, For and Against

May 26th, 2010 4:04 PM
David Frum has responded on his own site Frum Forum to the NewsBusters post on his nasty Limbaugh book review in The Washington Post. For starters, he claimed that he focused on Limbaugh's ornate digs because this is "really the only news" in the Zev Chafets book. To claim there’s no news in here is to admit you skimmed it. I wish Frum had plopped in the Post this snippet from pages 139 and 140…

A Bad Joke: WaPo Assigns Limbaugh Book Review to Rush-Hating David Fru

May 25th, 2010 8:35 AM
The Washington Post knows how to thrust two middle fingers in Rush Limbaugh's face. They decided to put a book review of the new Zev Chavets book on Limbaugh on the front page of Tuesday's Style section, reviewed by....David Frum, the Republican establishment's leading Rush-hater. This is a little like assigning a Bill Clinton book review to Jim Clyburn, so he can call him a racist again for 1,…

Author of Limbaugh Bio Accused of 'Stockholm Syndrome' by NY Times Cri

May 24th, 2010 5:12 PM
In her review Monday of "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One," Zev Chafets's new biography of the radio host, New York Times entertainment critic Janet Maslin harshly accused Chafets of suffering from "a case of Stockholm syndrome" for his failure to lambast Limbaugh as much as Maslin apparently wanted him bashed: "Limbaugh, Somewhat Airbrushed."Maslin discussed the origin of the book (from a profile…

NYT Article on Rush -- This is NO Hit Piece

July 2nd, 2008 12:07 PM
As readers are likely aware, the New York Times has published an online preview of an article about Rush Limbaugh which will appear in Sunday's Magazine. Although author Zev Chafets responded "Absolutely" when Snerdly asked him as he entered the EIB control room, “Are you the guy who’s here to do the hit job on us?” this ended up being anything but a hit piece.Quite the contrary, Chafets did a…