Senator Ted Kennedy, the Kopechnes, and Mrs. Alito's Tears

John Armor
 

NYT's Maureen Dowd: Clinton's Lying "Endearing," While Bush "Lies" In

Brad Wilmouth
 

Reuters Reporter Downplays Record Home-Sales Results

Tom Blumer
 

CBS Evening News, But Not Web Site, Picks Up on Majority Backing of Ea

Despite the decision by the editors of CBSNews.com not to highlight the finding in a new CBS News/New York Times poll, of how 61 percent believe President Bush authorized wiretaps in order to “fight terrorism,” with just 29 percent saying he did it just to “expand the powers of the presidency,” on Thursday's CBS Evening News John Roberts alerted viewers to the finding. Roberts relayed: “On the…
Brent Baker
 

Unlike CBS and NBC, ABC Again Refuses to Label Hamas as “Terrorist

While CBS and NBC reporters were willing Thursday night to outright tag, without any qualifiers or attributions to others, Hamas as a “terrorist” group, for the second night in a row, ABC's World News Tonight distanced itself from the term -- even avoiding it during a friendly profile of a terrorist. ABC anchor Bob Woodruff teased from Jerusalem: “Tonight, a monumental shake-up in the Middle…
Brent Baker
 

Gun Control: Taken for a Ride in New York

Howard Nemerov
 

Former CNN Anchor Aaron Brown Says Truth No Longer Matters in Cable Ne

Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown gave a speech at Palm Beach, Florida’s Society of the Four Arts on Tuesday, and according to the Palm Beach Daily News, he didn’t have very nice things to say about the news industry including, “‘Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news.’"  According to the article: “Brown said he tried to give viewers a balanced…
Noel Sheppard
 

ABC's Brian Ross Impugns Scalia and Thomas in Distorted Story on "Judi

Catching up with a distorted story from early in the week: On Monday's Nightline, ABC ran a silly story by Brian Ross impugning the integrity of the two most conservative Supreme Court justices, for a "judicial junket" in Colorado where at a Federalist Society conference Antonin Scalia played tennis and the acceptance by Clarence Thomas of a NASCAR jacket. Over hidden-camera video of Scalia on a…
Brent Baker
 

Can Journalists Read the Hamas Charter Before They Go Soft on the Terr

Tim Graham
 

Oprah: 'Never' Been Duped Before

Mike Bates
 

ABCs Lisa Stark Goes After Oil Profits

Reporter portrays an oil tax advocate as consumer champion.
Ken Shepherd
 

Flashback: Whitewashing Hamas as a "Political and Social Welfare Organ

Just two and a half years ago -- after the September 11 attacks had supposedly made the U.S. a bit more sensitive to the plight of Israelis under constant pressure from terrorist groups -- ABC's World News Tonight benignly described the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas as “a political and social welfare organization with a military wing that has launched terror attacks against Israel.”Now that…
Rich Noyes
 

NY Times Scorns Bush Thinking Katrina "Bullet Has Been Dodged," But M

Clay Waters
 

Antique Media Revive Last Year's Story

Noel Sheppard