The Washington Post-Pimp? Paper Offers Lobbyists Access to Top Officia

Tim Graham

CNBC Anchor Claims Getting 'Veiled Death Threats,' for His Scathing Re

Either "CNBC Reports" anchor Dennis Kneale has a flair for the dramatic or he upset a lot of people in the blogosphere with his biting critique of the blogosphere's negativity on the economy. On the July 1 broadcast of "CNBC Reports," Kneale responded to harsh, angry criticism from bloggers - even pointing out blogs like the Huffington Post, with an openly left-of-center perspective. "Last…
Jeff Poor

FNC's Varney Heatedly Debates Porkulus With Air America Host

Fox News's Stuart Varney had a heated debate Wednesday with Air America's Mike Papantonio about the state of the economy and the effectiveness of the $787 billion stimulus package.Subbing for Neil Cavuto on Wednesday's "Your World," Varney tried repeatedly to get his liberal guest to admit that porkulus hasn't worked and that the economy is getting worse.Papantonio wasn't having any of that…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

How Will Media Report June's Larger Than Expected Job Losses

As NewsBusters has been reporting, Obama-loving media have been very quick to point out how recent unemployment reports from the Labor Department, though showing HUGE job losses, have been better than analysts expected.The most absurd example was two months ago when a 539,000 decrease in nonfarm payrolls was applauded by many media outlets as being good news. With that in mind, the Labor…
Noel Sheppard

Are Black Female Reporters In The Tank for Michelle? 'Fabulously

Tim Graham

LATimes: Men Secretly Sympathize With Adulterers, 'See Sanford in Mirr

Meghan Daum of the L.A. Times has had an epiphany. The story of adulterous South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is still in the news, she's decided, because America's men see themselves reflected in him. Yes, Daum apparently feels that all men are adulterers, so they sympathize with him causing the story to keep bumping along. Daum spies some "gasp--empathy" for the governor in various corners…
Warner Todd Huston

FNC's Kelly Reports Public Opinion Trending Against Sotomayor

Brad Wilmouth

What Passes for 'Journalism' At HuffPo Isn't

If you listen to the blabbers and gossipers, the Huffington Post is the talk of the town. It is claimed that Arianna Huffington's "success" is the "new journalism," the future of the news. TechNewsWorld proclaimed it "appropriate" that Huffington appeared in the YouTube series on journalism apparently because she personifies it. The New York Times celebrated HuffPo as "hybrid journalism" for its…
Warner Todd Huston

Nets Highlight Obama's Hug at Health Forum; CNN: 'Bold Display of Pres

Network reporters swooned over President Barack Obama hugging a woman, who has cancer and lacks insurance, at his Wednesday “town hall” on health care, as both CNN -- where Suzanne Malveaux heralded the hug as “a bold display of presidential concern” -- and NBC failed to point out how all the questions (just seven in total) were pre-selected or from members of pro-Obama groups. Instead, NBC's…
Brent Baker

MSNBC Contributor Doesn't Understand Why 'White Americans' Think Jacks

Touré appears on new Snyderman show to say media should take 'a couple of months, if not a couple of years' before exploring star's troubled past.
Jeff Poor

Faded Glory: How Broadcast Networks Trivialize Patriotism

Dan Gainor

Helen Thomas and Chip Reid Slam White House Control of Media

John Stephenson

Helen Thomas, Chip Reid Question White House Control of Media

Is the press corps starting to tire of the Obama Administration? At a press conference today, Helen Thomas and CBS’s Chip Reid got into it with Robert Gibbs over how the administration has been prepackaging media events. First Reid asked why the questions for Wednesday’s town hall on healthcare were being preselected. After Gibbs tried to dodge that question a few times, Thomas became involved…
Mitchell Blatt