The News Priorities at the Post

Dan Gainor
 

Mark Steyn: Reality in Iraq is “Very Different From What Tim Russert

For those of you that missed it, Mark Steyn – one of the finest geopolitical writers on the current landscape – was Hugh Hewitt’s radio guest on Thursday (hat tips to Radio Blogger and Real Clear Politics with audio link to follow). The main topic of discussion was – you guessed it – mainstream media bias towards the war in Iraq. One of the best moments was when Steyn went after one of the most…
Noel Sheppard
 

Washington Post: Impeachment "Talk Bubbles Up in Many Corners of the N

Mike Bates
 

More on Mitchell's "Christian Right" Cause: Producer Asks Anti-Bush Qu

Tim Graham
 

Silence of the Left? NBC Casts Afghani Conversion Case as Conservative

Mark Finkelstein
 

Online Post Chat Roundup: David Broder Fulminates Against Failure To R

Tim Graham
 

Maher: Bush Guilty of “Treason” for Putting “Oil Profits” Befo

Bill Maher ended his HBO show Friday night, Real Time with Bill Maher, with a tirade about supposed efforts by the Bush administration to suppress information about global warming. Picking up on the allegations of NASA's James Hansen who was featured on last Sunday's 60 Minutes, Maher charged that “cowboy” Bush “and his corporate goons at the White House tried to censor Mr. Hansen from…
Brent Baker
 

Chris Matthews Suggests That Bush and Cheney Are Liars

Chris Matthews was on “Imus in the Morning” Friday (hat tip to Crooks and Liars), and he went on quite a rant about the Bush administration (video link to follow). From suggesting that Helen Thomas was set up earlier in the week to intentionally be toyed with by President Bush, to alleging that Bush and Vice President Cheney both lied about Iraq having ties to al Qaeda in order to sell the war,…
Noel Sheppard
 

Rumsfeld Tells CNN Reporter Quoting Maureen Dowd to Get a Life

For those of you that missed it, there was a fabulous exchange that occurred during a Pentagon press conference between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CNN’s Jamie McIntyre aired on “The Situation Room” Thursday (video link to follow). McIntyre was questioning Rumsfeld about recent claims of him being “embattled,” “incompetent,” and that he should step down. Rumsfeld answered McIntyre with…
Noel Sheppard
 

"I Saw Our Soldiers Greeted as Liberators": Hitchens Mashes Matthews

Mark Finkelstein
 

The Washington Post Proves Us Right

Greg Sheffield
 

WashPost Conservative Blogger Ben Domenech Resigns, Liberals Still Kve

Tim Graham
 

Taranto: ABC Boss Ignored Kerry "Mixed Messages" Chat, Repetitive Conv

Tim Graham
 

Hello, Newman: CNN's Havana Bureau Chief Jumps to Al-Jazeera Internati

Earlier this week, Media Bistro's TVNewser blog reported that Lucia Newman, who's reported from Latin America for CNN for twenty years and has run the network's Havana bureau since 1997, will become a Buenos Aires-based correspondent for Al-Jazeera's English-language channel.The MRC has noticed a leftward slant in many of Newman's reports. The March 1990 issue of MediaWatch observed that, two…
Tom Johnson