Katie Couric Doesn't Challenge Theme of Iran’s 'Holocaust Conference

Noel Sheppard
 

Ana Marie Cox: Mary Cheney's Pregnancy Shames White House, May Be A Ge

Michael Rule
 

Two Attacks On O'Reilly: Sex Songs in Seattle, Clooney's Newsweek Twea

Tim Graham
 

University Professor Explains Jimmy Carter’s ‘Palestine’ Inaccur

Last Wednesday, NewsBuster Tom Blumer reported the resignation of an Emory University professor from that school’s Carter Center due to problems the professor had with former president Jimmy Carter’s new controversial book “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.” On Tuesday, the university newspaper, the Emory Wheel, published an article outlining Professor Kenneth Stein’s positions on this issue (hat…
Noel Sheppard
 

A Side of Outsourcing You Won't Hear From Lou Dobbs

Outsourcing and the Internet are helping "microbusiness" owners to thrive, USA Today reported in a recent edition. That’s funny. As Lou Dobbs would have us believe, outsourcing does nothing but turn middle class Americans into economic cannon fodder for major corporations."Competitiveness, productivity, and efficiency are nothing more than code words for 'cheaper labor,'" Dobbs…
Ken Shepherd
 

More Dictators, Another Double Standard: The NY Times Obituary for Jea

Clay Waters
 

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NB Staff
 

War on Christmas? Bah, Humbug

The media are turning a blind eye to one of our most important cultural and Constitutional conflicts.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

Double Standards for Dictators

I almost did a double take when reading this editorial knowing it came from the Washington Post. Kudos to the staff of the editorial page for printing something very politically incorrect about deceased former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and acknowledging the horrible truth that Fidel Castro, the aging communist ruler of Cuba, has not been sufficiently denounced. Castro-worship (and…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Olbermann Denies He’s Howard Beale, NewsBuster Disagrees

Is Keith Olbermann just a modern-day reincarnation of the crazed anchorman depicted in the 1976 Academy Award-winning film “Network?” In a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article published Tuesday, KO said no (emphasis mine throughout): “‘I am not Peter Finch walking around the streets of New York in my pajamas as Howard Beale muttering to myself and saying, 'I must bear my witness.' It's not like that…
Noel Sheppard
 

Dow Jones Media Critic: Couric's Woes Chauvinistic America's Fault

Mark Finkelstein
 

Time Mag: Setting to Tear Down McCain... Their Own Creation

Warner Todd Huston
 

Barack Obama Superstar Worship In The Media

P.J. Gladnick
 

He-Could-Go-All-The-Way: 'Today' Cheers Obama's Football Play

Mark Finkelstein