16-Year-Old Climate Realist Kristen Byrnes Interviewed By NPR

Almost a year ago, NewsBusters introduced readers to Kristen Byrnes, a 15-year-old Portland, Maine, student that marvelously took on the so-called global warming consensus, as well as some of its strongest proponents such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and NASA's James Hansen.At the time, Kristen was being invited by all kinds of media…
Noel Sheppard

Questions Stephanopoulos Should Ask Clinton and Obama Wednesday

The Democrat presidential candidates are squaring off against one another Wednesday in Philadelphia, and, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, co-moderator George Stephanopoulos thinks this could decide the nomination:"There hasn't been a debate in weeks and the stakes couldn't be higher, there's no question about that," he said. "That's especially true for Sen. Clinton. Pennsylvania is a…
Noel Sheppard

NYT Editorial: Fool Taxpayers, Hide Taxes Behind New Name 'Dues

Well, it's April 15th and we all know what that means. It's tax day, the day when we must pay tribute to the Lords in Washington. And on that day, The New York Times published a new spendaholic, high taxing idea to fool America's taxpayers into accepting more tax by pretending it is something else. Stuffed with bad historic interpretation, Republican slamming, and typical old style Stalinist…
Warner Todd Huston

Krugman Comes Clean After Recycling Story His Own Paper Debunked

It has to be tough advocating an ideology that requires seeking out things that are bad in American society. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman found one very heartbreaking story Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton had been using on the campaign and used it in the lede of his April 11 column. Unfortunately for Krugman it wasn't quite accurate. Even worse, his own paper was one…
Jeff Poor

Poll Finds Pope 'Out of Touch', But Only 292 Catholics Were Polled

Tim Graham

Vieira Asks Another Airline CEO for Impossible 'Guarantee

'Today' co-host asks for a guarantee Delta Air Lines would not raise fares or reduce services in wake of airline merger.
Jeff Poor

Someone Please Get NBC's Vieira an Econ 101 Crash Course

Understanding every nuance of economics, especially as it pertains to the airline industry, can be a daunting task. However, you would think that NBC's "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira - who has elevated herself to the point where she's worth $10 million a year, according to Parade magazine - would have risen to the task at this point in her career. In an interview with Delta Air Lines (NYSE:…
Jeff Poor

Bozell Column: Charlton Heston, RIP

Brent Bozell

ElectionWatch: Krugman Recycles Story His Own Paper Debunked; Then Apo

Liberal columnist repeated a disproved Clinton talking point to promote the need for socialized medicine five days after his own newspaper disproved it.
Jeff Poor

ABC's John Berman: McCain is Really, Really Old

"Good Morning America" reporter John Berman turned a Tuesday segment that was supposed to be about Senator John McCain's age, and how much it concerns voters, and instead filled it with clip after clip of comedians mocking the Republican presidential candidate for being "crazy old." Berman featured no less than six snippets of comics such as Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jon Stewart and others…
Scott Whitlock

Networks Ignore All Positives with Delta/Northwest Merger

Operating under the assumption that what's good for business is bad for consumers forces the media to give Americans a narrow view of the world. All three network newscasts on April 14 reported the Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) and Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA) as if it were a conspiracy to bilk air travelers out of more money. "It's an unsettled time in the skies - planes grounded, flights…
Jeff Poor

Whoopi Goldberg Rails Against Her Taxes

To mark Tax Day, Whoopi Goldberg, a strong critic of high taxes, railed against how much the government takes from her paycheck. On the April 15 edition of "The View," Whoopi displayed some of her bills with the many government fees attached to it. She also felt she was being punished for her success even calling it "un-American" and wondering why she never gets a "break."Co-host Elisabeth…
Justin McCarthy

Press Ignore History-making Italian Election: No Commies Elected

Michael Ledeen over at the National Review's Corner reminded me today that the recent elections in Italy resulted in a historic event- for the first time since World War II, no Communist was elected to the Italian Parliament. And in an equally positive corollary, no member of the fellow-traveling Green party won either. Mr. Ledeen also noticed something that the Big Media around the world…
Richard Newcomb

ABC's Chris Cuomo: Goal of Pope Visit to 'Reinforce Hard-line Doctrine

On Tuesday's "Good Morning America," news anchor Chris Cuomo used the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to label the pontiff as uncompromising and assert that the Catholic Church sees the visit as "an opportunity for the Pope to come here and reinforce hard-line doctrine." Earlier in the segment, Cuomo described Benedict as "a hard-liner charged with protecting Catholic orthodoxy." Cuomo also…
Scott Whitlock