U.S. News Mag Shocks With 'Is Bush Delusional?' Cover Story

Tim Graham
 

CBS Adopts Olbermann-esque Spin and Charges Terrorist Arrests Over-Hyp

On Tuesday night, following a week in which the CBS Evening News attracted the fewest viewers in decades, the producers decided the Katie Couric-anchored newscast needed an injection of an Olbermann-esque twist: The arrests of six Islamists, for plotting to use automatic weapons to murder troops at Fort Dix, matches the hype around previous captures which fizzled. Armen Keteyian framed his story…
Brent Baker
 

Katie’s Collapse: ‘CBS Evening News’ Viewership Lowest in 20 Yea

The Katie Couric as “CBS Evening News” anchor experiment appears to be failing, and failing miserably.As TV Week reported Tuesday (h/t TVNewser): “The news is not good for third-place ‘CBS Evening News With Katie Couric,’ which in the week of April 30 hit its lowest total viewership since at least 1987.”According to TVNewser’s Brian Stelter, the “at least 1987” qualifier refers to Nielsen…
Noel Sheppard
 

MSNBC.com Still Bored with Fort Dix Terror Story

Ken Shepherd
 

UMd. Study: RSS Feeds Poorly Designed by Media Outlets, NY Times Among

A new study by my alma mater, the University of Maryland, looked at the online divisions of 19 major traditional print and broadcast media:... to see which ones gave the users of their RSS feeds the same number of stories, the same range of news sources, in as timely a fashion as could be gotten if those users went to the individual website. The Los Angeles Times, ABCNews.com, and Foxnews.com…
Ken Shepherd
 

ABC’s 'Boston Legal' Tonight: 'Guantanamo by the Bay

Brent Baker
 

Bozell Column: Spoiled Democrats and Debates

Brent Bozell
 

CNN Reveals Truth About Sebelius’s Iraq-Ruined-Kansas Line, But Stil

Apparently, CNN can't get enough of Kathleen Sebelius, the Democrat governor of Kansas. She made two appearances on CNN on Monday, once on "American Morning," and the other time on "The Situation Room." Both times, she tried to blame the Iraq war for any hampered reactions to the devastation caused by a tornado in Greensburg, Kansas. The same evening, the "Paula Zahn Now" program featured…
Matthew Balan
 

ABC Science Blog: What the Heck, Let's Blame Global Warming Anyway

Ken Shepherd
 

Rosie O'Donnell: Commentator on 'The Early Show

Justin McCarthy
 

NYT: Will Sarkozy's 'Divisive Legislation' Lead to More Violence in Fr

Clay Waters
 

Le Prejugé de Presse: Anti-Sarkozy Bias in the AFP

Anti-conservative bias in the media is not unique to America. Agence France-Presse (AFP) practically portrayed French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy as a modern day, Gallic incarnation of Nero, fiddling while France burns (emphasis mine).:France's next president Nicolas Sarkozy holidayed Tuesday in Malta ahead of launching a radical reform programme, while back home cities across the country…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS and ABC Offer Wrong 'Two Cents' on Gas Prices

Julia A. Seymour
 

NYT Front Page Photo: Queen Elizabeth II With Unnamed 'American Escort

Update below (May 9, 23:30 EDT)First Time magazine drops the President from the '100 Most Influential' list, and now this: The big front-page photo in Tuesday's New York Times was of Queen Elizabeth (who did make Time's list of important movers and shakers) with President Bush walking past a row of photographers at the White House after her official welcome. But the photo cropped off the top…
Rich Noyes