NBC's Williams Showcases Left-Winger on Katrina/Race: Bushes 'Clueless

Looking back at Katrina a year later, NBC's Brian Williams decided to raise the issue of race and to showcase as his sole expert, on both Monday's NBC Nightly News and a prime time special, left-wing professor Michael Eric Dyson, author of Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. Williams, from New Orleans, set up his Nightly News segment by arguing the disaster “…
Brent Baker
 

Los Angeles Times Downplays Release of Fox News Journalists

Has the Los Angeles Times downplayed the release of Fox News Channel journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig? From today's LA Times (Monday, August 28, 2006):"Fox Journalists Freed After 2 Weeks in Gaza," p. A4, one photo, 925 words.Compare this coverage with that of the release of journalist Jill Carroll, whose story was covered on March 31, 2006:
Dave Pierre
 

Plame Kerfuffle Ending with a Thud

With the recent disclosure that Richard Armitage, an anti-Iraq war deputy of former secretary of state Colin Powell, was Bob Novak's source for the Valerie Plame leak, the political scandal that never should have been may finally be wrapping up. All that seems to remain is a three-and-out trial of departed White House aid Scooter Libby.Byron York has a long piece summarizing the recent…
Matthew Sheffield
 

ChicagoTribune: Cheney Always 'Hedging,' Is That Like Lying

Warner Todd Huston
 

CNN: President Bush 'Clueless' in Handling of Hurricane Katrina

There was more bad news for President Bush during the 4pm EDT hour of Monday's "The Situation Room." In two separate reports from Bill Schneider and Dana Bash, the President was labeled "clueless" on his handling of Hurricane Katrina and Democratic talking points on the subject were repeated yet again. Schneider’s piece focused on the toll Hurricane Katrina took on President Bush’s poll numbers…
Megan McCormack
 

V for Verizon? One Reporter's Telecom Vendetta

CNN's Allen Wastler rings bell for more government interference with telecoms, but ignores consumers' existing costs from high taxes and regulation.
Ken Shepherd
 

Chris Matthews Bashes 'McLaughlin Group,' Praises Olbermann-O'Reilly F

Greg Sheffield
 

Early Show's Harry Smith Says New Orleans Residents Feel 'Abandoned' A

Harry Smith, "Early Show" co-host, reported live from New Orleans today on the state of the city one year after Hurricane Katrina. Smith essentially had one type of question: Exactly how horrible is the situation today? The CBS journalist talked with Oliver Thomas, President of the New Orleans City Council. He lectured Mr. Thomas, telling him, "Folks feel abandoned. They feel forgotten. They feel…
Scott Whitlock
 

Air America Loses Another One

Greg Sheffield
 

Matthews Wonders If GOP Will Play Race Card

Geoffrey Dickens
 

BBC: Katrina Shows U.S. Still Has Too Many Blacks 'At The Bottom Of Th

Tim Graham
 

CNN Starts Weeklong Katrina Series with Attack on Insurance Companies

Reporter Velshi, anchor O'Brien assume corporate greed, dismiss personal responsibility.
Ken Shepherd
 

News Flash: Cindy Sheehan Branching Out to Labor, Immigration Issues

Craig Bannister
 

Gore: 'Democracy is Under Attack

Former veep Al Gore continues to get slavishly great press (the kind a Republican could only get by switching parties à la Jim Jeffords), this time for a speech he gave in Scotland claiming that "democracy is under attack" from media consolidation. I'm doubtful that he mentioned similar dangers from ultrarich leftists like George Soros trying to buy their own governments in various countries.…
Matthew Sheffield