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Lauers SciFi Disaster Examines Our Lack of Future
World wont end before more viewers subjected to Today co-hosts wacky predictions of doom.
CNN's '70s Flashback: Serwer Sees Specter of Stagflation
But economy is performing strongly and inflation is well below 1970s levels.
Summer of Gore Continues with Softball Game on Larry King
Host lets Gore slam his talking points out of the park without raising any skeptical questions on warming.
CBS Would Rather Not
Once again, the alternative media broke news before the MSM. Last May, NewsBusters reported that CBS and Dan Rather were about to part company. Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Gail Shister and the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz confirmed it. From Shister's story:
Barring a miracle, CBS will not renew the legendary newsman's contract when it expires in late November. All signs point to it.…
Al-Zarqawi the Journalist
I'm reading the text of the document that al-Zarqawi was caught with and I have to say it's a more accurate portrayal of what is really going on in Iraq than the average New York Times article. The situation and conditions of the resistance in Iraq have reached a point that requires a review of the events and of the work being done inside Iraq. Such a study is needed in order to show the best…
Olbermann Follow-Up: Keith Curses at His Viewers
On Wednesday, NewsBusters reported how MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sent an e-mail message to a viewer in which he debased colleague Rita Cosby as well as his boss at the time. Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to NB reader John in CA) reported Thursday that Olbermann has been responding to his likely voluminous hate mail with…hate mail:“Keith Olbermann's vacation isn't going so well. “…
al Qaeda and Mainstream Media Hug It Out Together
As I mentioned earlier, al Qaeda is nothing without the mainstream American media to prop them up and help them win the hearts and minds of greater Marin County. But now it comes out that in the face of massive circulation decline, the mainstream American media is in bad shape without al Qaeda. More ink equals more blood, claim two economists who say that newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents…
Ann Coulter’s 'Godless' to Debut at #1 on NYT’s Bestseller List
Hillary Clinton called her “mean-spirited” and “heartless.” Rahm Emanuel called her a “hatemonger.” Jane Smiley said her parents should be “ashamed” for raising such a person. And, an Ad Age columnist suggested she should kill herself. Yet, despite all these awful reviews, as reported by NewsMax Wednesday, the New York Times is going to call Ann Coulter its number one bestseller of nonfiction “…