WashPost Buries Lede on DC Gun Ban Story

In the March 11 Washington Post, staff writers Elissa Silverman and Allison Klein took a look at the men and women behind a legal challenge to the Washington, D.C., handgun ban. But in doing so, it seems they buried the lede.Information on one plaintiff came near the end of Silverman and Klein's 25-paragraph story:Dick Heller, 65, said he became involved in the firearms debate in 1997 after he…
Ken Shepherd

Environmental Group Throws Anti-Bush Vanity Fair Editor Congratulatory

Lynn Davidson

NBC Takes a Stab at 'Newpeats

The new media revolution brought about by the Internet Age leaves a constant vacuum to be filled for the traditional entertainment cycle on broadcast TV. You'll notice a lot of broadcast Web sites doing what they can to fill that void with extra footage, behind-the-scenes stuff, bloopers, "webisodes," and the like.But let's face it, when the new episodes are exhausted on the networks, we're not…
Ken Shepherd

Robert Kagan in WaPo: What Is Journalists' Plan B if the 'Surge' Works

Tom Blumer

Foreign Journalists and

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," Sigmund Freud is purported to have once said, cautioning that not everything has a deeper, hidden meaning to it. Well, sometimes a blockbuster blood-soaked action flick is just that, a blood-soaked, special effects-laden action flick.Just try telling that to cynical, left-wing European journalists.According to Entertainment Weekly, everyone from gay interest…
Ken Shepherd

Why? Yet Another Profile Of Obama From The LA Times

Dave Pierre

Scientists Receive Death Threats For Questioning Man’s Role in Globa

Think those advancing anthropogenic global warming theories are serious about their views? Well, an article from Sunday’s Telegraph should scare every person around the world about the zealotry and danger surrounding this issue (emphasis mine throughout):Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific…
Noel Sheppard

Bozell: American People Believe Media's A Major Factor In Our Moral De

Tim Graham

Ted Koppel Tells Shocking Truth About Iraq and War on Terror (Updated

Former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel was one of Tim Russert’s guests on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” As amazing as it might seem, he made some truly shocking and compelling statements about the Iraq war and the war on terror that virtually no Democrat or media member is willing to accept or report:First, Koppel made it clear that America’s premature departure from Iraq would turn the entire Persian…
Noel Sheppard

Newsweek’s ‘Belief’ in Bashing Conservative Christians

Dan Gainor

Hume: Shrewd of Edwards to Spurn Debate Since Fox Cannot Be at War Wit

As the Managing Editor of Fox News Channel's Washington, DC bureau, you might have thought Brit Hume would have taken great umbrage at John Edwards' high-profile decision to spurn a debate of Dem presidential contenders that Fox had organized for August in Nevada. The Edwards pull-out ultimately led to a cancellation of the debate by the Nevada state Democratic party. Edwards had come under…
Mark Finkelstein

Time to Play WIARHSI: Hillary Says 'I Like Seeing Women in Charge

Mark Finkelstein

Clintons Moving Shills Into News Departments Ahead of 2008 Elections

Warner Todd Huston

Weekend Captionfest II

Original caption: Pedestrians walk past the main entrance to the Washington Post, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007, in Washington.
NB Staff