FNC to Air Experimental Non-liberal 'Daily Show' Variant

The success of the left-wing Jon Stewart at capturing the young news viewer hasn't gone unnoticed in the television business. Fox News Channel is prepping a show with a similar format, and with a non-liberal perspective, according to the Hollywood Reporter:Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a "Daily Show"-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January,…
Matthew Sheffield

WashPost Slants Leftward in Covering Lives of Galbraith, Friedman

Ken Shepherd

Post Slants Left - Even into the Grave

The deaths of two prominent economists show paper never ceases liberal spin.
Dan Gainor

Open Thread

Fill 'er up, folks!
NB Staff

N.Y. Times Magazine's Radical 'Mash Note' For the Gay Vogue

Tim Graham

More Post-Election Good News: Wages Rising Faster Than Any Time Since

The economy isn’t doing well, correct? The average American is going backwards, right? Isn’t that all we heard before the elections?Well, in another post-election stunner, the Christian Science Monitor has chosen to share the truth with Americans, sadly almost two weeks after the nation went to the polls. In an article amazingly titled “A brisk rise in American wages; Pay rose faster than the…
Noel Sheppard

November Surprise: After Democrats Win, Media Question 'Cut-and-Run

Rich Noyes

Turkey Prices Up Just in Time for Thanksgiving

Ken Shepherd

News Flash: Gas Prices Up with Thanksgiving Driving

CNN, NBC don't see a connection; NBC complains 5-cent jump in prices will 'gobble' up travel budget
Ken Shepherd

Media Assist Democrats' Bait and Switch Election Strategy

In 1992, Bill Clinton campaigned for president by promising tax cuts for the middle class. Fourteen years later, his Party ran on a similar “tell the people exactly what they want to hear” motif, this time the mantra being a speedy withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Though separated by almost a decade and a half, these campaign strategies were quite similar to a now illegal marketing scheme…
Noel Sheppard

MSNBC Lines No Fluke: Abrams Tells WashPost That Olbermann's A Role Mo

Tim Graham

A Few Adventures Fore Heading for Home

Mark Finkelstein

ABC's Conservative Character: We Must 'Acknowledge the War Itself Was

It took ABC until just the ninth episode of its new Sunday night drama, Brothers & Sisters, to have its sole conservative character “grow” -- as they say of conservatives who move to the left -- from a pro-war right-winger to a critic of the Iraq war who declared it “a mistake.” The show evolves around the “Walkers,” a southern California family of two adult sisters and three adult brothers…
Brent Baker

Contrasting NY Times Obit Headlines: Galbraith vs. Friedman

Tom Blumer