Dow Jones Chairman on Media Power: We're Goliath, Not David

Tim Graham
 

Chris Matthews to John Edwards: Are You Scared By Bush's 'Messianic Nu

Geoffrey Dickens
 

While CBS Continues To Fawn Over Obama, Schieffer Notes His Lack Of Ex

Michael Rule
 

Vote NB

NewsBusters has been nominated for the 2006 Weblog Awards in the "Best Media Blog" category. Help NB win by going to the page and voting for us. Right now, the far left blog Raw Story is ahead. You can vote multiple times, although only once per day.Update 12-14 14:00. NB has moved up but still is in second. Keep those votes coming! Today is the last day. Also, please help Little Green…
Matthew Sheffield
 

The NY Times: Objective Journalism or Pro-Environmentalist PR

Clay Waters
 

Stay Tuned for The Feats of Strength

...but my colleague Julia Seymour has got the Airing of Grievances part down for those of us at the MRC's Business & Media Institute. The camera pans across a sparkling Christmas tree, then zooms in on singer Clay Aiken, who begins to sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”: “... and ransom captive Israel … that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appear …” So which holiday is that…
Ken Shepherd
 

Have a Holly Jolly - Something

BMI Staff
 

Have a Holly Jolly ... Something

Despite retailers' move back toward 'Merry Christmas,' journalists are three times as likely to offer 'Happy Holidays.'
Julia A. Seymour
 

Media Shocker: Time Recognizes ‘The Big Lie About the Middle East

This one caught me quite off guard: a major American magazine recognizing that all of the problems in the Middle East can’t be tied directly to the never-ending standoff between Israel and the Palestinians. This was even more shocking given the recent suggestions by the Baker-Hamilton commission that the problems in Iraq would be lessened by a resolution of this seemingly extraneous conflict.Yet…
Noel Sheppard
 

Bozell Column: Dying Dictators and Double Standards

That great American ambassador and lovely lady Jeane Kirkpatrick has left us, but her passing also causes us to remember her strategic sense and moral clarity. She came to national prominence in Reaganite circles in 1979 with her marvelous Commentary magazine essay on “Dictatorship and Double Standards.” It argued that traditional authoritarian autocracies were both more susceptible to…
Brent Bozell
 

Julia Roberts: A Spider Is 'A Person' - So How About Human Babies? [Vi

Mark Finkelstein
 

Lies of Omission: A Simple Test for Media Bias

Yesterday Howie, one of my co-bloggers at The Jawa Report conducted what he describes as a "simple test" for mainstream media bias against reporting positive news from Iraq. Howie posted about three separate stories from Iraq, one positive, one mostly positive, and one negative, then tracked the amount of play each story got in the MSM via Google's news search function.
Al Brown
 

Neck Deep

In a column published last night, Eric Boehlert does an excellent job of showing why David Brock's Media Matters should be regarded as the alimentary canal of punditry; on one end it's good at regurgitation, and on the other, the finalized product is consistently something better flushed. In Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns, Boehlert dishonestly addresses the continuing Associated…
Bob Owens
 

Open Thread

Today's starters:Media: Court hearings on FCC's reinvigorated anti-profanity policy will be televised, meaning the argument over naughty words on TV will be shown on TV. The Christian Science Monitor damns conservative milblogger Bill Roggio with faint praise (Bill, and Karl at PW respond). Patterico ponders copyrights today, wondering who would own the rights to an answering machine message…
Matthew Sheffield