The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: August 19th to 25th

August 25th, 2006 4:16 PM
NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell continued the skewed media reporting of the Middle East by noting the important social work  that Hezbollah does and how the rest of the world has a very supportive take on the terrorist organization. Liberal TV critic Bob Laurence hypothesized that the scant coverage of the kidnaping of two Fox News journalists was due to the frequency of abductions and the network’s…

Self-Inflicted Wounds: E&P Editor Attempts to Defend MSM

August 25th, 2006 12:15 PM
First published as a weekly in 1884 as The Journalist, Editor & Publisher (E&P) is a monthly journal covering the North American newspaper industry. Since 2002, Greg Mitchell has been the Editor of E&P, and he writes both an online and print column. While I've never read the print version, I have occasionally read Mitchell's online Pressing Issues column, and have actually written…

News You Won't See: Anti-Semitic Boy Band Tops Palestinian Charts

August 25th, 2006 10:38 AM
Here's a story you're not likely to see covered by today's MSM TV: the story of a Palestinian boy band who made it big...by writing up a song praising Hezollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Click here for an MP3 of it.)The song, "Hawk of Lebanon," is mostly a 10-minute repetition of the phrase "Yallah, Nasrallah" along with other delightful lyrics such as "I hope we can destroy your life and make…

Unexploded Excitement

August 23rd, 2006 1:56 PM

Amnesty International: Blind to the Obvious

August 23rd, 2006 9:56 AM

Latest Developments in the Hezbullah Money Scandal

August 22nd, 2006 9:16 PM
Wow! It would seem that our original story is taking off in more directions than we'd ever imagined! For starting with a mere, "Hezbullah has been known for counterfeiting," and seeing the context of the discussion evolve into such a detailed analysis of the photographic evidence is awe-inspiring, to say the least. Once again, this proves to me that investigative journalism isn't dead:—it…

Tucker, Ever Heard of the Marshall Plan

August 22nd, 2006 5:14 PM

BBC Risks Lebanese Boy for Photo-op with Unexploded Bomb

August 22nd, 2006 10:18 AM

Andrea Mitchell On PBS 'Washington Week': American Media Not Pro-Hezbo

August 21st, 2006 11:20 AM

The Lowest Common Denominator

August 21st, 2006 8:52 AM
Let's be clear: The press does not want you to think about current events. They want you to "feel" them. By doing so, they control your entire thought process on what you're reading, and what you're seeing. This series of photographs, to me, is one of the basest examples of propaganda I've ever seen. There's no logical reason for a photograph like this—it contains no information, but merely…

A Sudden Lack of Context

August 19th, 2006 11:52 AM
Caption:... Hezbollah members began distributing US$12,000 in crisp cash bills Friday to those who lost their homes in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Now that Hezbullah has suddenly morphed into a philanthropic organization, we learn from this photograph that they are distributing approximately US$12,000 to the needy in areas destroyed by Israel…

Selective PBS 'NewsHour' Highlights Media-Pleasing Pew Poll

August 18th, 2006 5:42 PM

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: August 12th to 18th

August 18th, 2006 3:05 PM

Media Ignore Celebs Against Terrorism

August 18th, 2006 2:53 PM
Have you heard the news of the latest celebrity political pronouncement?For those living in a cave, Bernie Mac, Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, Danny De Vito, Bruce Willis, and a host of other celebs recently signed an issue ad taking a stand…against terrorism.Didn't hear about it? That's no surprise. According to Nexis, not a single American news organization other than Fox News Channel has…