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Dobbs Program Deliberately Takes Free Market Advocate Out of Context
Hard to believe that a woman with a master's degree from the Northwestern Medill J-school would do this, but CNN correspondent Lisa Sylvester did, and where else but on "Lou Dobbs Tonight", that bulwark of "advocacy journalism."In its rush to anger viewers about private company “ownership” of public roads, the January 9 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” presented only one proponent of privatized toll roads,…
Barbara Walters Chooses Rosie (and Ratings?) Over ‘The Donald
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, a squabble between ABC’s Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters was either a sign of increasing troubles between the co-hosts of the daytime coffee klatch “The View,” or a publicity stunt for ratings. On Wednesday, we may have gotten the answer as the twosome said some disparaging comments about Rosie’s new foe Donald Trump, and expressed solidarity with an on-camera…
Dobbs Takes Left Turn on Private Highway Investment
Reporter Lisa Sylvester selectively edited interview of free market advocate
Journalists Snow Public with Avalanche of Warming Reports
It's 'balmy,' it's golf weather and media claim 'it's the end of the world.'
Matt Lauer in Time: Tougher On Tom Cruise Than On 'Smeared' Hillary
Time magazine devoted its "Ten Questions" interview this week to NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer. Time’s Jeanne McDowell had a light touch, asking about Meredith, and Katie, and squabbling with Tom Cruise. The interview quickly draws the reader to this comparison: Lauer was tougher on Tom Cruise than he was with Hillary Clinton in the famous "vast right-wing conspiracy" interview of 1998, despite…
CNN’s Blitzer Confronts Teddy: Were We Better Off With Saddam in Pow
On the Tuesday edition of "Situation Room," host Wolf Blitzer asked Ted Kennedy whether Iraq and U.S. interests would be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power. The CNN anchor spent much of his interview wondering how the Massachusetts Senator would stop President Bush from increasing troop levels in Iraq. However, he only briefly challenged Kennedy on what should be done in Iraq,…
Sen. Dick Durbin Asks Daily Kos Members to Help Set the Senate’s Age
Assume for a second that a high-ranking Republican member of Congress published an article at a popular conservative website like National Review Online, Rush Limbaugh.com, or even NewsBusters asking readers for their opinions on the major issues of the day. Think this would generate some outrage from the liberal media?Well, Tuesday morning, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), the new Majority Whip,…
Sean Hannity Declares Sean Penn an ‘Enemy of the State
It is surprising that this slipped under the radar, but during the Sunday inaugural of Sean Hannity’s new program on Fox News "Hannity's America," the host declared actor Sean Penn an “Enemy of the State” for his vitriolic remarks about the President and others in the Administration (video available here). NewsBusters has reported and chronicled many of Penn's absurd statements here, here, here, …