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Today's starter: Terrorist organizations have started using Google to further their ends.
NB Staff
 

Jim Lehrer on Colbert: I am ‘Bias-Free’ And The ‘Flavor of Neutr

Appearing on the Monday edition of Comedy Central’s "Colbert Report," PBS host Jim Lehrer dismissed any hint of a liberal agenda, declaring himself "bias-free." The "NewsHour" anchor also indicated that the real problem is the distorted viewers, not slanted reporting: Stephen Colbert: "Now, um, do you believe that you have a liberal bias?"Jim Lehrer: "I know I do not have a liberal bias." Colbert…
Scott Whitlock
 

NY Times Follows NBC's Lead: Reporters Can Call Iraq Conflict 'Civil W

Clay Waters
 

Is 'Cronkite Moment' Just a Media Myth

Rich Noyes
 

Boston Globe Laments JFK Not on Historians' Most Influential List

Warner Todd Huston
 

Shocking Editorial: ‘What People Expect of Newspapers

Imagine a world where the media felt their primary obligation was to inform society of important events and issues “with an openness to consider the different views out there before arriving at any conclusion.” Sounds like heaven, right? Well, NB member ‘lostincyberspace” has shared a fabulous editorial from a Malaysian newspaper called the Sun Daily that should be must reading for American…
Noel Sheppard
 

The New York Times Fails In Effort To Block Justice Department Investi

Terry Trippany
 

'Today' Tips Its Hand: 'Civil War' Label Key To Encouraging Cut-and-Ru

Mark Finkelstein
 

The Hidden Agenda Behind the Pray-In

Robin Boyd
 

Newsweek Publishes Two 'Kramer' Columns on Racism, Both Mention George

Tim Graham
 

Dionne's Siren Song To GOP: Renounce Reagan, Embrace Bill

Mark Finkelstein
 

An Inconvenient Truth: Olbermann Bullies the National Science Teachers

Amy Ridenour
 

Another Pre-election Myth Debunked: Seniors Love New Medicare Drug Ben

Noel Sheppard
 

Bogus Source Cited in NBC 'Civil War' Decision

A transcript posted at the blog Think Progress quotes NBC as factoring in a story from now-discredited source Jamil Hussein about Sunni worshippers being burned alive as a major factor in NBC's decision to declare a "civil war" in Iraq [emphasis added]:The news from Iraq is becoming grimmer every day. Over the long holiday weekend bombings killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood in…
Al Brown