Bias of a Different Sort: Columnist Contends Media Favor Macs

It's nothing to do with political bias, but I think PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak's latest column makes an interesting allegation: that the technology media favor Apple products over Windows-based ones. Here's an excerpt:With 90 percent of the mainstream writers being Mac users, what would you expect? The top columnists in the news and business magazines fit this model too. The technology…
Matthew Sheffield
 

CNN Calls Legal Reform ‘Silly

Dan Gainor
 

NBC Update: Canoeing Kosinski Swears the Deeper Waters Weren't Well-Li

Tim Graham
 

CNN Calls Legal Reform Silly

House overwhelmingly passes cheeseburger bill to prevent obesity-related lawsuits, but anchor says everyone involved acted foolishly.
R. Warren Anderson
 

Illegal Immigration News Ignored by The Early Show

Ken Shepherd
 

NYT Sportswriter Tosses Up a Liberal Brick

Clay Waters
 

'South Park' Lampoons Overhyped Katrina Coverage

"South Park," the popular Comedy Central show about the misadventures of a group of four Colorado boys, criticized the news media Wednesday night for its overhyped coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In the episode, two of the boys, Stan Marsh and Eric Cartman, accidentally crash a boat into a beaver dam, flooding an entire town. In the aftermath, local and national media blame it on global warming…
Matthew Sheffield
 

NBC Takes Swipe at O'Reilly: "No Spine Zone

Rich Noyes
 

Saddam: Butcher of Baghdad....Or "Assertive Nationalist Leader

Tim Graham
 

Bill O'Reilly on Today Show Casts a Pox on Both Houses - Buzz Word: "I

Mark Finkelstein
 

Olbermann Hypes Idea that Bush Lied about Rove's Role in CIA Leak Case

On his Countdown show Wednesday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann began his show by hyping an article by the New York Daily News claiming that President Bush "rebuked Karl Rove" two years ago for having a role in the leaking of Valerie Plame's name. The Countdown host also showcased the President's refusal to respond to a reporter's question on the article, and proposed that this revelation implies…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Newsweek: Bush Administration Manipulated Journalists Regarding Iraqi

A Newsweek article written by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball currently posted at MSNBC.com once again offered the view that the Bush administration lied to journalists about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to justify the March 2003 invasion:“Oct. 19, 2005 - The lengthy account by New York Times reporter Judy Miller about her grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case…
Noel Sheppard
 

Sandy Berger To Be An Advisor For ABC's "Commander In Chief

If we are to believe this article in today's New York Daily News (Wednesday, October 19, 2005), former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger will be signing on to be an advisor on ABC's Tuesday night drama, Commander in Chief. The Daily News also reports that Ron Klain, a longtime aide to Al Gore, will join the show. Berger and Klain join two others with Clinton connections who…
Dave Pierre
 

Lobbying for Extra Credit

Dan Gainor