Mea Culpa: NY Times Corrects the Record for Calling Washington Times

If you haven't noticed, a lot of media outlets have gotten worked up into a tizzy over the mere mention of death panels. The New York Times got so worked up, it went after a few conservatives outlets by name in its Aug. 13 issue. "But the rumor [that Obama's health care proposal would create death panels] - which has come up at Congressional town-hall-style meetings this week in spite of an…
Jeff Poor

Florida TV Frets Over Obama Joker Posters in Orlando Suburb

Some Obama Joker posters have shown up in an Orlando, Florida, suburb, and a local television station isn't happy about it.To be fair, some have been placed on federal and private property such as public garbage cans and mail boxes potentially constituting vandalism.However, a teenager has already admitted putting up some of the posters, and reports suggest kids are responsible for the remainder.…
Noel Sheppard

CBS Frets Obama Won’t Be Tough Enough on Drug Companies

On Monday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a report focusing on worries that President Obama will not go far enough to challenge drug companies, which she believed may “jeopardize support among Democrats and the public.” Anchor Katie Couric introduced the report as she suggested that Obama, who repeatedly promised during the campaign that all negotiations would be public…
Brad Wilmouth

UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-moon Goes Batty Over Climate Change, Upcoming Confer

Readers are advised to make peace with the Maker soon. If we are to believe the recent utterings of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (pictured at right), humanity -- or at least humanity living life as we know it -- is not long for this earth. The Sec-Gen's August 11 speech at the Global Economic Forum in Incheon, South Korea, was so over the top that it's likely the world's media…
Tom Blumer

Obama: TV Misreporting What's Happening At Town Hall Meetings

The man who has received more favorable press coverage than likely any political candidate or President in history struck back at television news outlets Friday for focusing attention on town hall meeting protesters.Imagine the nerve of these Obama-loving media members daring to broadcast some dissent in the population despite their absurd contention it's all being manufactured by conservative…
Noel Sheppard

Bob Dylan Detained By Cops Week After Gates, Story Buried Until Now

Exactly one week after the highly-publicized arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates stirred a national discussion on race relations, legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was detained by police officers in a "low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood" in Long Branch, New Jersey.Makes one wonder why it took so long for this to get reported, and if news outlets that were convinced…
Noel Sheppard

Ridiculous Maddow Paints NewsBusters as Vehicle of ‘Right-Wing

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow “apologized” on Friday for her false report the previous night that conservative public relations executive Craig Shirley was somehow behind a Web site that hosted incendiary anti-Obama video, a site funded by a group called Grassfire.org. “I apologize for saying that they [Shirley & Banister Public Affairs] were still currently involved in representing Grassfire. They…
Rich Noyes

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: You tell us!
NB Staff

NewsBusters' Sheppard Speaks At San Francisco Tea Party

For those wondering just how strong the sentiment being expressed at Tea Parties and town hall meetings is growing throughout the nation, consider that about 1,000 people turned out to demonstrate against ObamaCare Friday in one of the most liberal cities in America...San Francisco.That's right, a Tea Party in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Cal.) own district.Speakers included KSFO's Brian…
NB Staff

Organizing for Apathy: NYT Column On OFA Ignores This Week's Pathetic

In an August 14 report appearing on the front page of the paper's August 15 print edition ("Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Web"), Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times (pictured at right) gave readers a fairly accurate impression, while avoiding the word, of activism turning into apathy in Barack Obama's DNC- and White House-orchestrated Organizing for America (OFA) effort. While Zeleny's…
Tom Blumer

Global Warming: Attack of the Invasive Weeds

Global warming warning! Be on the alert for the attack of the invasive weeds! This is the latest in a long series of the possible consequences of supposed global warming. The dire scenario is set forth in a San Francisco Chronicle story by Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan:For educational purposes, the California Invasive Plants Council will sell you bouquets of plastic weeds, including yellow star…
P.J. Gladnick

NY Times Critic: ‘Certain Radio and Television Hosts’ Fueling ‘T

New York Times Magazine critic Deborah Solomon conducted an all-over-the-map interview with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, alternating between conservative "terrorism," lesbianism and Girl Scout cookies. At one point she wondered, "But do you think certain radio and television hosts are feeding intolerance and even terrorism?" Solomon’s interview, which will appear in…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Describes Democrats as ‘Orchestrating’ Pro-Obama Town Hall in

On Friday’s broadcast network evening newscasts, the CBS Evening News uniquely noted that Democrats in Montana had "orchestrated" a friendly environment for President Obama at a Montana town hall event as many Democrats arrived early to secure tickets. After CBS correspondent Chip Reid filed a report in which he relayed that "this crowd was on [Obama's] side," and that "the questions were mostly…
Brad Wilmouth

MRC's Motley on FNC's Beck to Discuss FCC's New Chief Diversity 'Czar

Seton Motley, the Media Research Center's Director of Communications, was on the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck to discuss the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s new "Chief Diversity Officer," Mark Lloyd.Chief Diversity Officer Lloyd is virulently anti-capitalist, almost myopically racially fixated and exuberantly pro-regulation.  He is a frightening guy to have having any power at the…
NB Staff