Blogger on CNN: You Helped Terrorists' PR Campaign

Over the weekend, blogger Jim Hanson (aka "Uncle Jimbo" at Blackfive) appeared on CNN's "This Week at War" where he asked about how the U.S. military was going to improve its response to the pretty sophisticated usage of the media that Islamic terrorists have begun to develop.Of course, the fact that the terrorists have gotten good at using the media isn't simply a deficiency of the Pentagon. It…
Matthew Sheffield
 

CNN Regular Wants Premium on Gas: Another Tax

Julia A. Seymour
 

Democrat Presidential Candidate Quoted and Linked to Anti-Semitic Hate

There is another scandal in the making concerning a Democratic presidential candidate’s blog. Longshot candidate Mike Gravel has a BIG problem. On his website, he proudly quoted and linked to a site which posted some online support of Gravel, excitedly announcing, “Meet the next president of the United States of America.” The site is called “Wake Up from Your Slumber.” Sounds nice and netrooty—…
Lynn Davidson
 

ABCNews.com Gives Uncontested Press to Self-Proclaimed Messiah

Ken Shepherd
 

GMA’s Cuomo Spins Tenet Book as Evidence of Bush Lies: 'Is It Time

Scott Whitlock
 

CNN's Wastler Backs $1 Gas Tax Hike

Reporter suggests how to keep government 'In the Money': with $4-a-gallon gas.
Dan Gainor
 

'Early Show' Host Harry Smith Pounds Tony Snow With Pullout 'Majority

Justin McCarthy
 

Rumors Rise of Roseanne for Rosie Replacement

Matthew Sheffield
 

Big Metro Dailies Continue to Lose Circulation

For the fifth straight year, America's biggest newspapers (especially the left-leaning ones) have experienced big drops in circulation.The Audit Bureau of Circulation released its annual numbers today. Among the findings: Two of the three national newspapers (USA Today and the Wall Street Journal) gained circ while the New York Times fell 2 percent on weekdays and nearly three-and-a-half percent…
Matthew Sheffield
 

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NB Staff
 

Brokaw Wonders Why Tenet Didn't Resign Given 'Rogue' Pentagon Operatio

The Bush administration: a bigger threat to national security than a foreign spy. That was Tom Brokaw's implicit assumption in his interview with former CIA Director George Tenet on this morning's "Today." Along the way, Brokaw accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of running a "rogue" intelligence operation.BROKAW: In the opening passage you describe conversations in the Clinton…
Mark Finkelstein
 

No Sherlock: NPR Anchor Asks If Viet Cong Spy at Time Magazine Cost Am

Tim Graham
 

Media Ignore Conyers's Breathtaking DDT Ignorance

Imagine a conservative congressperson doing something this unhinged and not getting raked over the coals in the press (Wall Street Journal link requires subscription): Tuesday was Africa Malaria Day, and Michigan Representative John Conyers marked the event by inviting something called the Pesticide Action Network to Capitol Hill to denounce DDT as an unsafe malaria intervention. What was he…
Tom Blumer
 

LAT: Falling Home Construction Market in USA Hurts Mexico

Warner Todd Huston