MSNBC Team Mock, Laugh at McCain Victory Speech

Brad Wilmouth
 

CBS Uses Teen Pregnancy Stats to Promote Midwest Teen Sex Show

Calls explicit internet program a popular health podcast.
Kristen Fyfe
 

Poll: Character of Candidates is Key to Voters

Media virtually ignore survey results.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

The NBCs of Blasphemy

Unrepentant comedienne Kathy Griffin to be showcased on Dateline
Robert Knight
 

F is for Falsehood, Not Feminism

CosmoGirl tries to rally young women to the feminist movement, using propaganda long ago debunked.
Colleen Raezler
 

‘Early Show’ Misrepresents Bloomberg Survey on Recession Chances

This is worse than a case of calling a glass "half-empty" when it is "half-full." This is like taking the glass and pouring it out. Deirdre Bolton, an anchor for Bloomberg TV, appeared on CBS's January 9 "The Early Show" to report on a survey of economists Bloomberg conducted January 3-8 about whether or not a recession is in the immediate future of the U.S. economy. "[W]ell, as you said the…
Jeff Poor
 

Carville's Canine Comparison: Obama Like Hit 'Dog

Let's play a Wednesday night game of WIARHSI: What If a Republican Had Said It? What if a top GOP consultant compared Barack Obama to a "dog"?James Carville, who acknowledged he was serving as an unpaid consultant to the Clinton campaign, used the metaphor on tonight's Larry King. View video here.
Mark Finkelstein
 

Headlines on School Food Choices Misleading

Richard Newcomb
 

A Study In Lies

Kathleen McKinley
 

LAT Supreme Court Reporter Shies Away From Labeling Ginsburg Liberal

Only one Supreme Court Justice seemed keen on overturning Indiana's voter identification law, Los Angeles Times reporter David Savage noted in a January 9 article at latimes.com. That would be liberal Clinton appointee Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But while Savage noted that "conservatives [were] leading the way," in questioning the validity of the Indiana Democrats' complaint about the law, he failed to…
Ken Shepherd
 

Under Pressure from CNN, Obama Admits Wanting to Raise Taxes

It took a couple of tries, but CNN "American Morning" co-anchor John Roberts got Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to admit what people probably already knew - Obama wants to raise taxes. Obama appeared in an interview with Roberts on the January 9 "American Morning" fresh off his second place finish in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. He told Roberts high taxes were in the…
Jeff Poor
 

'Early Show' Makes Carter Years Comparisons in One-Sided View of Econo

Bloomberg TV anchor appears on CBS only offering worst predictions in survey, ignoring the majority, who say no recession in 2008.
Jeff Poor
 

The Oops and Downs of Economic Predictions

The public has to be confused as the media over-predict downturns and gas price spikes but lack accuracy.
Dan Gainor
 

Reuters Headline Labels CIA Traitor ‘Whistle-Blower

Reuters, in its headline for a story reporting the death of Philip Agee, a former CIA agent turned traitor, labeled Agee a "CIA whistle-blower" ("CIA whistle-blower Philip Agee dies in Cuba"). As the blog Little Green Footballs put it, Agee was "the traitor who exposed fellow CIA agents to violence and murder by revealing their names" in his 1975 book "Inside the Company: A CIA Diary."Agee, who…
Matthew Balan