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Gravitas, Anyone? Yahoo Puts Couric Trip to Iraq, Syria Under 'Enterta
"Seriously?!" That's what I thought when I received an e-mail from NewsBusters reader Lori Puente informing me that Yahoo News is listing an article about Katie Couric's upcoming trip to report from Iraq and Syria in the "entertainment news" section. Sure enough, I took a look at Yahoo News and there the headline was: "Katie Couric to report from Iraq, Syria."Given the nature of news on the Web,…
Greenpeace Co-founder Slams DiCaprio’s New Global Warming Film
Here's something you don't see every day: an environmentalist bashing an environmentalist. Yet, such was the case Wednesday when Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, slammed the new Leonardo DiCaprio film "The 11th Hour" as the "latest climate-change rant" representing "another example of anti-forestry scare tactics" which sadly indicated that "we're losing sight of some indisputable…
Suggestion Thread
Interesting stuff coming down the pike soon here...In the mean time, what suggestions would you have for NB now that we have a sufficiently large enough group of readers and commenters?Meetups, conventions, panels, cyberactivism, what?How much time are you able to help us take things to the next level?
Left-Wing Cry of 'Revolution' More than Same Old Song
Calls for societal change show liberals want to overturn the things that made America great.
CNN Peddles Democrat Talking Points on Katrina for Second Straight Day
CNN apparently wants to milk all it can out of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s strike on the Gulf Coast for the benefit of the Democrats. On Monday’s "The Situation Room," CNN special correspondent Soledad O’Brien’s report juxtaposed a clip of a recent speech by Barack Obama with stock footage of the hurricane’s aftermath. On Tuesday’s "The Situation Room," O’Brien upped the ante in…
MRC's Bozell Hits WaPo Double Standard in Pulling 'Opus' Cartoon
MRC president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the August 29 "Fox & Friends" to discuss the Washington Post's double standards on religious sensitivity. As NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard reported on Sunday, the Post refused to run Berkeley Breathed's August 26 "Opus" cartoon in which flighty recurring character Lola Granola has declared herself a "radical…
Poverty Rate Falls, But CBS Stresses Rise in Number Without Health Ins
The Census Bureau announced a drop in the poverty rate, but NBC and, especially CBS, on Tuesday night managed to turn the good news into bad by emphasizing an increase in the number of Americans without health insurance while ABC, in contrast, portrayed the decrease in poverty as good news. “A bright spot of economic news today,” fill-in ABC anchor Kate Snow announced, “the percentage of…
CBS: Rising and Falling Home Prices Bad for the Economy
No matter what the housing market does – whether it trends upward or trends downward – either way, it is bad for economy. That’s the CBS take on the economy anyway. “The prices of homes are falling and there is more evidence tonight that those counting on their houses as their nest eggs may be in trouble,” said Russ Mitchell on the August 26 “Evening News.”
Brian Williams Defends Gunpoint Katrina Looting as Work of Desperate
Talk about your bigotry of low expectations . . . Brian Williams has defended armed looting during Katrina as the work of heads of family providing for their own.The NBC Nightly News anchor is in New Orleans on the second Katrina anniversary. He appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" at 7:30 A.M. EDT. Williams first passed along a predictable race-and-classed based explanation of the mismanaged…
Ana Marie Cox on Couric Middle-East Trip: 'Maybe She Needs Rugs
Update 15:34 (see bottom of post): Cox explains her rug joke. I had great expectations when Ana Marie Cox turned up on the "Morning Joe" panel, confident the tart-tongued former Wonkette would produce plenty of grist for our NB mill. But over the course of the week, Cox has been disappointingly subdued, leaving it to the congenial Tamron Hall to produce our headlines. Perhaps Ana Marie's new…
Networks Ignore Sparsely Attended Anti-Gun Rallies
Journalists refuse to embarrass activists attacking your ability to responsibly defend your loved ones.
God's Warriors Interviewee Says CNN Misrepresented Him and His Family
Christiane Amanpour reported her preconceived biases about Christians, rather than the facts.
CBS Uses 'Craig Scandal' to Exhibit How 'GOP Is Already Under a Cloud
In contrast to the morning shows which exploited the arrest of Republican Senator Larry Craig, on charges stemming from alleged lewd conduct in an airport men's room, as a chance to tar the “right wing,” “conservatives” and the “GOP,” with the notable exception of CBS, the broadcast network evening shows -- which all led Tuesday night with Craig -- refrained from using the matter to malign…