Richer People 'Good News' If They Are Women

ABC and NBC stay positive about the increasing number of female billionaires, despite previous anti-rich slant.
Julia A. Seymour
 

Michael Moore Is Focus Of Explosive New Documentary That Highlights Hi

Lynn Davidson
 

Soros-Linked LA Times Columnist Sniffs at Gitmo Security Concerns

Does Karen Greenberg believe the United States is involved in a war with Islamist terrorists? Judging by her column in today's Los Angeles Times, The military's Gitmo script, you really have to wonder. Greenberg is executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU law school. Her bio there [from whence her photo here comes] indicates that she is a former Vice-President of George…
Mark Finkelstein
 

CNN Job Reports Don't Even Agree

Velshi says people 'people feel better about the economy'... unless they read CNN.com.
Dan Gainor
 

NBC's 'Las Vegas' Tonight Features Iraq Plot; Is Anti-War Bias a Safe

Tonight's episode of NBC's "Las Vegas" apparently has an Iraq sub-plot that, at least the abstract below suggests, may carry an anti-war message.SEASON FINALE-- Mike finds out that Sam has been kidnapped by one of her whales. Meanwhile, Danny takes drastic measures to help a friend avoid being deployed to Iraq. Elsewhere, Delinda learns life-altering news for she and Danny. James Caan and Nikki…
Ken Shepherd
 

Open Thread Friday

Matthew Sheffield
 

Public Radio: Why Should U.S. Adopt 'Failure' of E.U. Carbon Reduction

'Marketplace' segment acknowledges economic 'pain' of ineffective emissions cuts.
Paul Detrick
 

C-SPAN Gives Speaker Pelosi a Free Pass on Copyright Violations

Warner Todd Huston
 

Orange Juice Diplomacy: Sawyer Squeezes Khalilzad on Speaking with Ira

Back in the '70s, an exchange of ping pong players between the United States and China began a thawing of relations between the two countries that paved the way for Richard Nixon's famous trip to Beijing. Could we be entering a similar stage with Iran that could come to be known as "orange juice diplomacy"? Diane Sawyer certainly seems to hope so, judging by the way she pressed US ambassador to…
Mark Finkelstein
 

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: March 3 to

While members of "mainstream media" have eagerly covered Ann Coulter’s use of an vulgar term at a conservative conference, HBO host Bill Maher’s obnoxious comment about the Vice President, that "more people would live" if Dick Cheney had been assassinated, drew only sparse attention from the press. Commenting on the diversity of the 2008 Democratic contenders, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer remarked…
Scott Whitlock
 

C-SPAN Flap With Pelosi Leads To Better Access For Public

Lynn Davidson
 

WashPost's Dramatic Bias By Omission on Behalf of Rick Kaplan, Bill Ma

Does the Washington Post practice bias by omission out of sensitivity to fellow liberals? Open to Friday's Style section, and the bias by omission (and delay) is, at least to a conservative, utterly mind-boggling. As Howard Kurtz covered the story of Rick Kaplan arriving at what seems like his 26th appointment at the top of a liberal network or show, when did Kurtz explain that then-ABC producer…
Tim Graham
 

Rundown of New 'CBS Evening News' Executive Producer Kaplan's Clinton

As noted Thursday morning on NewsBusters, CBS News has hired Rick Kaplan, a former Executive Producer of ABC's World News Tonight and Nightline who later ran both CNN and MSNBC, to serve as Executive Producer of the ratings-challenged CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. As documented in a Thursday MRC CyberAlert posting reprinted here, Kaplan has had a long record of friendly relations with…
Brent Baker
 

Reuters Fantasy: What If Cheney Quit

Lynn Davidson