Is The New York Times About To Go Bankrupt

Is the New York Times only months away from declaring bankruptcy?What happens to the journalism industry if the answer is "Yes?"Such questions were posed by the Atlantic in its January/February edition:
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Fitzgerald makes a booboo!In a remarkable screw-up, a Department of Justice official today accidentally distributed to the media a document containing the names of nearly 20 confidential witnesses interviewed during a federal probe targeting the operators of a fraudulent investment scheme. In announcing felony charges against two men for…
NB Staff

Legislators Vow to Fight Fairness Doctrine with Introduction of New Bi

In the midst of economic troubles and much anticipation of a new administration about to enter the White House, the potential return of the Fairness Doctrine hasn't gotten much attention. But on the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, Republican members of Congress haven't forgotten. GOP Sens. Jim DeMint, S.C. and James Inhofe, Okla., along with two of their House colleagues, Reps…
Jeff Poor

Global Warming Horror Flick Put on Ice

How embarrassing is it when you produce a horror movie based on global warming and when the time comes to release it, the planet is experiencing some of the coldest weather in decades? Such is the case with The Thaw starring Val Kilmer. Filmed in Canada last summer, it should be ready for release by now but even though the trailer has been produced, no specific release date has been announced.…
P.J. Gladnick

LATimes Prints Hamas Terrorist's Op Ed

Amazingly, on January 6, the L. A. Times gave ample space to a Hamas terrorist to "explain" how the current Gaza action is all Israel's fault. Mousa Abu Marzook the purported "deputy of the political bureau of Hamas," the group called an "Islamic Resistance Movement," shamefacedly claims that Israel's actions shattered "any incentive by Palestinian leaders to enforce the moratorium on rocket fire…
Warner Todd Huston

Time Still Demands Cuba's Communist Revolution 'Deserves Its Due

The fiftieth anniversary of Fidel Castro’s Iron Curtain around Cuba may suggest that in some dark corners of the world, Soviet-style communism still lives. But it also demonstrates that antique "peaceful coexistence" bias is as persistent as the Castro brothers. Time magazine is still demonstrating the tired tendency of moral equivalence, treating the free world and the miniaturized communist…
Tim Graham

No Joke: Comedienne Whoopi Goldberg Claims She Could Live Like Jesus

'View' co-host ignores the divinity of Jesus Christ, focuses on His human qualities.
Erin Brown

Stop the Politicking and Start Entertaining

The people have spoken. They don't want their entertainment served with a side of politics. But some in Hollywood just aren't listening.
Erin Brown

Wrong, Rachel: Maddow Claims Clinton Inherited 'Economic Downturn' Fro

Maybe Rachel Maddow watched one too many clips of Bill Clinton during the '92 campaign claiming George H.W. had "driven the economy into a ditch" and that things were as bad as they'd been since the Depression.  In the course of trying to lower expectations for Obama to the max on her show tonight, and tracing the history of the economies previous presidents inherited, Maddow claimed that "…
Mark Finkelstein

NBC Commiserates with 'Hard Realities' Obama 'Up Against

Prompted by the CBO's forecast of a $1.2 trillion annual federal budget deficit, the NBC Nightly News on Wednesday commiserated with the challenge ahead for the incoming President. “On our broadcast tonight, facing facts,” Brian Williams teased, “President-elect Obama confronts the hard realities he's up against, deficits as far as the eye can see.” A dire Williams proceeded to lead with how…
Brent Baker

CNN's Kyra Phillips Unloads on Joe the Plumber

On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips let viewers know exactly what she thinks of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber.  On the 2:00 PM (ET) segment she teased the story:PHILLIPS: Oh, Lord, Joe The Plumber's got a new gig. It's got nothing to do with the pipes, it's got everything to do with Gaza.And later again:PHILLIPS: You've seen the last of this guy? Not. Now…
Mike Bates

GOP Legislators Vow to Fight Reinstitution of Fairness Doctrine with I

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.: 'We are not going to allow this rule to be reenacted either by the FCC, by the Obama administration or by Congress.'
Jeff Poor

Lame: Olbermann Trashes Coulter for 'Banned for Life' Story -- But His

It was utterly unsurprising to see Keith Olbermann trashing Ann Coulter on Tuesday for the Drudge Report’s "phony martyrdom story" that she was "banned for life" from NBC. But Olbermann seems so devoid of introspection that he didn’t consider the obvious: every conservative has been effectively "banned for life" from his hermetically sealed show for years. For as much as this lecturing Murrow…
Tim Graham

ABC's 'Ugly Americans': Obnoxious George Bush Supporters

D. S. Hube