The NY Times' Mortifying Easter Error: 'Resurrection Into Heaven of Je

Who says the New York Times is ignorant of religion? Elisabetta Povoledo is a Rome-based reporter for the paper's international edition, but either she or her copy editor made a mortifying mischaracterization of the meaning of Easter in an online story on Pope Francis posted Monday: "Pope Calls for ‘Peace in All the World’ in First Easter Message."
Clay Waters
April 1st, 2013 11:52 AM

ABC Family Leads the Way in All Things Gay

New lesbian foster couple show will fit right in with network’s idea of ‘family.’
Kristine Marsh
April 1st, 2013 10:47 AM

Pity the Fool: Celebrate April 1st with 8 Anti-Capitalist Journalists

Sometimes liberal bias goes so far it actually becomes absurd, like Roseanne Barr saying that she would bring back the guillotine in order to behead any rich people who wanted to keep more than $100 million of their own money. She set the bar (or the guillotine) higher than her $80 million net worth. But it wasn’t just extreme left-wing celebs like Roseanne and Michael Moore, news anchors and…
Julia A. Seymour
April 1st, 2013 10:14 AM

Latest Notable Quotables: Special Matthews Mega-Meltdown Edition

[April 2 update post: See which quotes were real and which were fake] The latest edition of MRC's Notable Quotables newsletter (PDF) has just been posted over at MRC.org, a special "Matthews Mega-Meltdown Edition." In this issue: our favorite MSNBC host drools over the “perfect” Barack Obama, hailing the “amazing economy” Obama has delivered to America and lobbying for the new Pope Francis to…
NB Staff
April 1st, 2013 8:33 AM

Mika To Google On Chavez-Over-Easter Choice: Admit You 'Screwed Up

That Mika Brzezinski is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal is well-known.  Less publicized: the Morning Joe host is also a person of faith with traditional views on a number of subjects. So it actually shouldn't come as a great surprise that Brzezinski sided with those criticizing Google for its choice of devoting its homepage doodle yesterday to celebrating the birthday of Cesar Chavez, rather than…
Mark Finkelstein
April 1st, 2013 8:01 AM

Just The Way He Wasn't: NBC Screws Up Obituary of Billy Joel's Produce

Here's one example for why network newscasts should have a corrections feature. On Saturday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt announced the death of legendary pop music producer Phil Ramone. He announced he was 72, and his birth year on screen said 1941. They were only wrong by seven years...
Tim Graham
April 1st, 2013 5:36 AM

Alex Jones: 'MSNBC Is Like the Ku Klux Klan Channel' - 'Just Race, Eve

As NewsBusters readers know all too well, the folks at MSNBC spend a great deal of time calling everyone they don't agree with racists. Controversial talk radio host Alex Jones took this sentiment a step further Friday saying, "You turn on MSNBC, it’s like the Ku Klux Klan channel...Just race, everything race" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 31st, 2013 11:57 PM

AP Headline and Story Label OH-01 (GOP Congressman's 2012 Victory Marg

I guess we had better start paying closer attention to how the establishment press labels -- and mislabels -- congressional districts. The headline at the Associated Press at a lengthy column composed by Charles Babington bemoaning the lack of willingness of Ohio First District Congressman Steve Chabot to "compromise," i.e., sell out his principles, reads as follows: "PARTISAN DISCORD FINDS…
Tom Blumer
March 31st, 2013 9:54 PM

AP Scrubs Inflammatory 'Captains of the Religious Right' Comment From

At the Weekly Standard's blog today, Daniel Halper relayed a pool reporter's notes from the Easter service President Barack Obama and his family attended this morning. The highlights from the Rev. Dr. Luis Leon's sermon" included the following statement: "It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in the back of the bus ...…
Tom Blumer
March 31st, 2013 9:03 PM

CNNMoney's Reaction to 0.4% Annualized GDP Growth: 'Economy Climbs Off

The latest estimate of economic growth for the final quarter of 2012 published by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday told us that the economy grew at an annualized rate of 0.4%. Not annualized, that means it actually grew by 0.1%. A $100,000-a-year business doing that "well" during a quarter would have seen its sales increase by $25 (.001 times $100,000 divided by 4).…
Tom Blumer
March 31st, 2013 7:46 PM

L.A. Times Lobs Its Biggest Insult at Playwright David Mamet: He Rants

The Los Angeles Times theater critic is depressed that playwright David Mamet has stumbled so sadly off a right-wing cliff. In his "Critic's Notebook," Charles McNulty complained from a huge spread on the cover of the Sunday Arts and Books section that rambled on inside.  Liberal writers adore insulting conservatives as stooping to the sound of “loudmouth talk radio,” and in "The problem…
Tim Graham
March 31st, 2013 6:10 PM

Stephanopoulos Features Atheist on Easter Sunday Discussing...Religion

As religious people are bludgeoned with secular views by America's media practically 24/7, it would be nice if they could be given a break on their holiest days. George Stephanopoulos clearly doesn't feel that way for on Easter Sunday he invited an atheist on ABC's This Week to join a panel discussion about - wait for it! - religion (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
March 31st, 2013 4:47 PM

Daily Kos Wants Us All to Fly the Friendly Skies for Free

The socialists at the Daily Kos are idealists, not pragmatists. For example, the blogger known as “Troubadour” thinks everything must be “public” and “enable and promote the rights and access of each individual citizen, since otherwise government merely functions as a monopolistic private entity rather than a representative of all.” In Kos-land, everything is public. Nothing is really…
Tim Graham
March 31st, 2013 3:34 PM

Chris Wallace to Gabby Giffords' Husband: Background Check Didn't Prev

The gun-hating media are convinced that background checks are the panacea that will prevent mass shootings in the future. Don't include Chris Wallace amongst them for on the most recent installment of Fox News Sunday, the host told gun control activist Mark Kelly that a background check didn't prevent Jared Loughner from purchasing the weapon he shot Kelly's wife Gabrielle Giffords with in…
Noel Sheppard
March 31st, 2013 2:38 PM