Washington Post Blogger Claims Bush Shuns "Ordinary Citizens

Tom Johnson

Wash Post Refuses to Post Critique of Own Story

Christopher Fotos

Bubble, Bubble, Its the Media in Trouble

Journalists have been forecasting a housing bust for years. When should we start to take them seriously?
Dan Gainor

CBS Blows Hurricane Season Death Toll Out of Proportion

Acosta portrays 2005 as deadliest year, ignoring 8,000 killed in Galveston storm.
Ken Shepherd

TV Academy Honors Dobbs, Ignores His Slant on News

Lifetime achievement award honors journalistic work, but skips trend toward advocacy.

CBS's Acosta: 2005 'Deadliest' Hurricane Season, But 20,000 Died in

Ken Shepherd

Bozell Column: Remembering Ted Koppel

Brent Bozell

O'Reilly on Fire on Today on Iraq: "It's World War III

To use a favorite phrase of ESPN's Dan Patrick, Bill O'Reilly was "en fuego" in his Today show appearance this morningThe main subject was President Bush's scheduled speech today to discuss his Iraq strategy.Katie Couric described the impending speech as "very important" and asked O'Reilly what people need to hear from it.O'Reilly got matters off to an unexpected start by declaring: "I'm not even…
Mark Finkelstein

NYT Makes 'Yes, But' Economic Reporting an Art Form

You've come to Newsbusters because you want to see a concrete example of liberal bias. Who delivers that better than the New York Times? This is reality. We're 4 years out from the worst attack since Pearl Harbor, post dot-com crash, we've had more hurricanes than any year since some old man first started keeping track, and we just about had a major U.S. city -- an economically important city…
Mithridate Ombud

Olbermann: Fox News Reinforces "Prejudices and Stereotypes

Brad Wilmouth

Kanye West Stands By His Slam on Bush: “I Spoke from My Heart

In an interview taped for ABC’s Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005, rapper Kanye West, who in September during NBC's Concert for Hurricane Relief had declared that “George Bush doesn't care about black people,” told Walters that he stands by the allegation. In the ABC special aired Tuesday night, in which Walters featured West as the second of her ten “most…
Brent Baker

Broadcast Nets, Which Led With Murtha, Ignore Lieberman

Twelve days ago when Democratic Congressman John Murtha, who had long been critical of the Bush administration’s running of the war, advocated withdrawing troops from Iraq, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts all emphasized his importance and influence as they led with his press conference. CBS showcased Murtha’s attack on Vice President Dick Cheney’s lack of military service and ABC ran a 90…
Brent Baker

Ted Turner Echoes Howard Dean: Iraq "No Better Off" Than Under Saddam

Tim Graham

Washington Post Humorist Defends Standard Newspaper Abortion Terminolo

Tom Johnson