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NB Staff

ABCNews.com Refuses to Correct Anti-Gun Misinformation

Bob Owens

NYT Columnist Scorns 'Demonization' of Duke Lacrosse Men -- Did Selena

Clay Waters

'Today': Va Tech Prez Defends Delay in Issuing Warning

Mark Finkelstein

WaPo Channels European Disgust at Tech Shooting: What Price Gun Rights

Tim Graham

As Dem Sites Mourn Va. Tech, Blogger Worries GOP Slow at Online Grief

Ken Shepherd

AP Portrayed Rudy as Cross-Dressing While Knocking Conservatives

There’s another snide article about Rudy Giuliani in a dress. In the past, the media have gleefully reminded America that Rudy Giuliani has worn dresses during comedic performances such as the one on “Saturday Night Live,” but this April 14 AP article that appears on MSNBC took a different tone, one that leaves the reader with the impression that Giuliani is a transvestite. Along with a big…
Lynn Davidson

Liberal Media Use Flawed Study to Attack Abstinence-Only Education

For every study that disparages the abstinence approach, there are many others that point to its success and suggest that effective, long-term programs should be given more funding—not less.
Kristen Fyfe

'Permissive Gun Law' View Spreads, Why Not 'Permissive' Visa Laws? Kil

Warner Todd Huston

Two Post Takes On Proselytizing In Schools: Global Warming Good, Jesus

The Washington Post produced two very different takes on Monday in stories about motivating school children to pay attention to threats looming in their future. First, there was an urgent front-page story about the need to educate children about the cataclysmic vision of a world destroyed by global warming – "the atomic bomb of today" – with absolutely no one skeptical of the almost religious…
Tim Graham

ABCNews.com Jumps to Push Gun Control; On TV Tapper Notes Greater Acce

Brent Baker

Newsweek: Mark Levin 'Ultraconservative' Like Hannity, Stephanie Mille

Tim Graham

NY Times Surmises Iraq Vet's Level-Headedness Symptom of 'Deep Emotion

Mark Finkelstein

ABC 'Blotter' Blog Gives Early Platform to Gun Control Group

Update added at bottom of post.In a 2:30 p.m. posting, well before details about the weapons used in the tragic Virginia Tech shootings were available, ABC News's Brian Ross devoted a "Blotter" blog entry to a gun control advocate's talking points. Ross didn't make room for any gun rights advocates or find a critic to suggest the Brady Center was callously capitalizing on a tragedy to further…
Ken Shepherd