Bozell: Showtime's New 'Call Girl' Glamorization

Brent Bozell's culture column this week deals with how Showtime keeps pushing envelopes, from the pot-pushing mom in "Weeds" to the sympathetic serial killer "Dexter" to the newest frontier:This year, the new fascination is prostitution, and Showtime has proudly unveiled a British import called "Secret Diary of a Call Girl." Sadly, and predictably, Showtime’s program glamorizing prostitution is…
Tim Graham
 

Is Google Making Us Stupid

Not really, but neo-luddite Neil Postman wannabe types sure are.
Matthew Sheffield
 

Abrams Defends Michelle Obama With McCain's 'I Really Didn't Love Amer

Want to know just how in the tank MSNBC's Dan Abrams is for Barack Obama? On Thursday's "Verdict," the network's former general manager actually tried to deflect criticism from Michelle Obama by bringing up statements John McCain made concerning his experience as a Vietnam POW making him realize how much he loves America.This is how Abrams began the program: "Tonight: We have uncovered comments…
Noel Sheppard
 

Weekend Captionfest II

Sen. Barack Obama behind his presidential-like seal during a meeting of Democratic governors, Friday, June 20, 2008, at the Chicago History Museum. The Latin inscription reads "Vero Possumus." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
NB Staff
 

The 'Silence of Feminists' Over Michelle

Charlotte Observer columnist Mary C. Curtis is in high dudgeon. She is all twisted up inside over the seeming lack of support that feminists have for Michelle Obama. She has decided to scold all those recalcitrant feminists, too. Yes, she's all upset over this thing wondering in her June 21 Washington Post op-ed, "Where are Obama's feminist defenders?" Curtis is even moaning that black women are…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Vermont Teacher Tells 4th-Grade Hunter She Won't Abide 'Killing' Talk

Tim Graham
 

Reader Sees 'Advocacy Journalism' in LAT Coverage of Gay Weddings

Readers of the Los Angeles Times could not miss the huge headline on the top of the front page on Wednesday (6/18/08): "Hundreds married on historic day" (print edition). In addition to the enormous headline, a whopping nine photos accompanied the Times's coverage of the first full day of legalized gay marriage in California.One reader saw a clear case of bias by the Times. Here's his letter to…
Dave Pierre
 

Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Inspires Creative Parody Memos

P.J. Gladnick
 

Cafferty: Obama's GOP Will Use Race Card Warning 'Shrewd' and 'On the

Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Section 8 Vouchers and Crime Correlated; Expect Media Indifference

Give Hanna Rosin at The Atlantic Online credit for investigating something most journalists wouldn't even think of touching. Her article is a long read, but an important one. Rosin's report out of Memphis (HT Instapundit) chronicles how a criminologist husband and his housing-expert wife made a correlation that makes so much sense, you just know it will encounter fierce resistance from media and…
Tom Blumer
 

Boston Globe: Obama's Rejection of Public Campaign Financing Means We

P.J. Gladnick
 

Yahoo! Hypes Newsweek Poll With 15-Point Obama Lead

Tim Graham
 

Blitzer Hypes: Obama Warns GOP 'to Play the Race Card Against Him

Barack Obama on Friday pre-smeared the opposition by charging they will “make you afraid” by identifying him as black, but instead of focusing on the basis of such an allegation or decrying Obama's personal insertion of the race-card into the campaign, Wolf Blitzer opened Friday night's CNN Election Center show by hyping Obama's warning:Tonight here in the Election Center: a highly controversial…
Brent Baker