The Ingraham Smackdown: How The Networks Turned Tinny and Defensive

Tim Graham
 

A Confidential Note to MSM

This is a confidential message to my fellow mainstream media journalists. All other "civilians" are to stop reading this right now. First, I thank my commrades for the negative spin put on recent news of nearly full employment for college graduates. ABC News did a fine job of including this graf in their copy: "Even as demand and salaries rise, college students should not be lulled into thinking…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Fact-Checking Goes AWOL Again at the New York Times

Clay Waters
 

ABC Producer: "Bush Makes Me Sick

Mike Bates
 

ABC Claims GM Decline Shows Industry in Big Trouble

Network continues to ignore success, increased job openings in foreign-owned auto plants.
Ken Shepherd
 

NYT Questions Hillary Foe’s “Military-Related Experiences” -- Bu

Clay Waters
 

NYT Admits Another Major Katrina Error

Mike Bates
 

The Ingraham Effect? 'Today' Leads With Good News from Iraq

Mark Finkelstein
 

NYT: Make A Call To The Bullpen, Bush

Eric Arr
 

Bash Father Bash Son: Mike Wallace, Chris Wallace Battle on 'Larry Kin

Greg Sheffield
 

Olbermann Raises McCarthy and Rails Against Ingraham's “Unforgivable

In leading his Countdown show on Wednesday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann pegged “the day in 1988 when the first George Bush sandbagged Dan Rather during a live interview on CBS as the moment” when “the process of blaming the messenger became an essential ingredient in American politics,” raised Joe McCarthy's name in noting the location of President Bush's criticism of press coverage of Iraq…
Brent Baker
 

NewsBusters Book Review: The Bathsheba Deadline

Greg Sheffield
 

TV News Bearish on the Economy

Best job market since 2001 goes unnoticed as major media still not convinced that 4 ½-year economic expansion is for real. Free Market ProjectIt seems you can’t turn on your TV without hearing a new poll claiming how poorly Americans feel about the economy. Dean Reynolds of ABC said on the March 10 “World News Tonight” that “57 percent of Americans in our ABC polling say this economy is bad,”…
Noel Sheppard
 

NBC Showcases Anti-War West Virginian Over One with Critique of Media

At a forum with President George W. Bush Wednesday at the Capitol Music Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia, Gayle Taylor, the wife of a member of the military recently returned from Iraq, was drowned out by a standing ovation when she told Bush: "It seems that our major media networks don't want to portray the good. They just want to focus-" Neither the CBS Evening News or NBC Nightly News found…
Brent Baker