Studio 60: Shooting at Soft Targets

Al Brown
September 18th, 2006 11:25 PM
"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" premiered on NBC tonight, and it looks like more of the same old, same old. Judd Hirsch's character, in charge of the Saturday Night Live-like show flew into a snit when the network standards and practices exec forced him to pull a skit called "Crazy Christians".
 

Burden Put on Pope, Not Muslim Leaders, for Violence; NBC Calls Pope

Brent Baker
September 18th, 2006 9:05 PM
 

WashPost Story Blames 'Bigoted' Talk Radio for Muslim Discrimination

Greg Sheffield
September 18th, 2006 7:49 PM
 

Newsweek's Meacham on GMA: 'God's Rottweiler' Remarks 'Heavy-Handed' a

Megan McCormack
September 18th, 2006 5:25 PM
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
September 18th, 2006 11:19 AM
Today's starter: Did the AP earn Pulitzers for collaborating with terrorists? Probably, argues Power Line.
 

Will Liberal Who Admits 'Liberals Are Soft on Terrorism' Lunch in MSM

Mark Finkelstein
September 18th, 2006 10:03 AM
 

'Path' Screenplay Writer Tells of Smear Campaign Against Him

Matthew Sheffield
September 18th, 2006 8:57 AM
 

Bill Maher Prevented From Discussing Religion on CBS’s ‘freeSpeech

Noel Sheppard
September 17th, 2006 1:02 PM
Is CBS’s new “freeSpeech” segment on the “Evening News” really free? Maybe not, as TVNewser reported Saturday (hat tip to Drudge) that Bill Maher – who had been invited on to be one of the free speakers – was told that he couldn’t discuss religion:“On Friday's Real Time on HBO, Maher explained that CBS approached him to do a 'freeSpeech' segment on the new Evening News. He asked if he could talk…
 

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: September 9 to

Scott Whitlock
September 15th, 2006 3:06 PM
 

HuffPo Analyst Says Pro-Lifers Are Just as Dangerous as Islamic Extrem

Noel Sheppard
September 15th, 2006 1:59 PM
As hard as it might be to believe, the liberal defense of Rosie O’Donnell’s anti-theistic comments on Tuesday’s “The View” has become almost as absurd and offensive as the remarks themselves. First a media analyst on Wednesday night claimed that "Radical Christianity" is just as bad as radical Islam because abortion clinics in the past have been attacked as reported here. Then, on Thursday’s “…
 

Aspiring Senator Bobby Casey, 'Authentic Catholic' and Libertine

Tim Graham
September 15th, 2006 1:29 PM
 

The Pope's Anti-Islam 'Blunder

Greg Sheffield
September 15th, 2006 12:49 PM
 

NY Times: 'Enlightenment Absolutists' Fail to Appease Muslim Extremist

Clay Waters
September 14th, 2006 4:40 PM
 

Open Thread

Matthew Sheffield
September 14th, 2006 11:47 AM
Today's starter: Is the term Islamofascism an appropriate one? Joe Loconte argues yes.