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GMA Devotes 109 Minutes to Other Trials, But Not One Second for Gosnel
Forty two days ago, on March 18, 2013, abortionist Kermit Gosnell went on trial, charged with the grisly murder of multiple babies and a patient. Yet, in the seven weeks that followed, ABC News has permitted no coverage, discussion or mention of the case, not even a single utterance of Dr. Gosnell’s name.
But that’s not due to lack of interest in shocking criminal cases. Over the same 42…
April 29th, 2013 11:22 AM

Mad Men Mocks Identity Politics Through Awkward ‘Caring’ Racism
White liberal characters look foolish after MLK Jr.
assassination.
April 29th, 2013 11:18 AM

CMI On TV – ‘Game of Thrones’ Throws too Much Gay at Viewers
Gratuitous nudity and gay sex on HBO.
April 29th, 2013 11:04 AM
People Making Over $100K Received Unemployment Benefits in 2011, Media
With all the media panic about sequestration, one would think a study finding billions of dollars of fraud in a government program would be national news.
Apparently not, for with few exceptions, a report published by the St. Louis Federal Reserve last week finding $3.3 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims in 2011 got almost no attention:
April 29th, 2013 9:38 AM

Iraq Suspends Al Jazeera For Promoting Violence and Sectarianism
Paging Al Gore!
Iraq on Sunday suspended the licenses of Al Jazeera and nine other satellite stations for promoting violence and sectarianism.
Al Jazeera reports:
April 29th, 2013 1:12 AM

Maddow Laughably Touts Liz Warren's 'Immediate Response' to Boston Bom
Say, did you happen to see that commercial for Elizabeth Warrren in the guise of an interview on "The Rachel Maddow Show"?
Those six minutes of scintillating chit-chat would have cost Warren big time if she and MSNBC went by the book, seeing how in-kind contributions to politicians don't get more obvious. (Video after page break)
April 28th, 2013 10:56 PM

This Is CNN: Sunday Primetime Host Bourdain Calls Himself ‘The Enorm
As NewsBusters previously reported, CNN’s new primetime program Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown last Sunday featured four audible A-words, two audible S-words, three censored F-bombs, and a “G-d damn.”
This Sunday, the host actually jokingly gave himself the name “The Enormous C--k” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 28th, 2013 10:07 PM

Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers
The newest celebrity in the liberal universe is billionaire Tom Steyer. In a story headlined "The Wrath of a Green Billionaire," Bloomberg Businesweek reporter Joshua Green explained he’s hailed as “a liberal analogue of the conservative Koch brothers, the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, whose lavish support of free-market causes and political ruthlessness loom large in the liberal…
April 28th, 2013 9:46 PM

First-Quarter GDP, Part 3 of 3: AP's Crutsinger Argues With History
On Friday, the government reported that the economy grew by an annualized 2.5 percent during the first quarter. Earlier today, in Part 1 of this series, (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) I showed that while most news organizations, including CNN, Bloomberg and Reuters, characterized that news as a disappointment, especially comparred to expectations of 3.0 percent or more following an awful fourth…
April 28th, 2013 5:14 PM

Norah O'Donnell's Liberal Math: A One Percent Raise Is A Pay Cut
NewsBusters readers know that one of the problems in this country is that liberal media members use a form of math much different than any of us learned in school.
Take CBS's Norah O'Donnell for example who on Sunday's Face the Nation actually said that a one percent raise is a pay cut (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 28th, 2013 4:25 PM

David Gergen: If Obama Doesn't Respect His Own Red Line Iran and Israe
CNN senior political analyst David Gergen made a statement on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday that was rather hawkish for a former Clinton adviser.
"If [President Obama] doesn't respect his own red line on Syria, there is no question that Israel and Iran will look at that and say, 'Well, we can't trust the guy. He’s not going to be tough.'"
April 28th, 2013 3:19 PM

Chuck Todd: Obama Didn't Want To Go Public With Syrian Chemical Weapon
NBC's Chuck Todd made some stunning statements Sunday about recent revelations concerning Syria's use of chemical weapons on its people.
Appearing on Meet the Press, Todd first said the Administration regrets President Obama's claim that this would be a "red line" adding "They didn't want to go public last week that they had this early evidence" and only did so because "they knew Congress was…
April 28th, 2013 1:53 PM

Chuck Todd: Obama 'Hates' 'Internet Media and Social Media
NBC's Chuck Todd told an inconvenient truth about Barack Obama on Sunday's Meet the Press.
"The rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff - he hates it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 28th, 2013 1:10 PM

First-Quarter GDP, Part 2 of 3: AP Argues With Itself
On Friday, the government reported that the economy grew by an annualized 2.5 percent during the first quarter. As I noted in Part 1 (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), three establishment press outlets (CNN, Bloomberg, and Reuters) pronounced the result "disappointing" -- but not Martin Crutsinger and Christopher Rugaber at the Associated Press, whose headline read "AFTER NEAR-STALL IN LATE 2012,…
April 28th, 2013 12:48 PM