NYT Rehashes Campaign Conspiracies on Bush's Terror Warnings

Clay Waters
 

AP Damns Condi, Bush with Faint Praise

Lisa Fabrizio
 

Newspaper Circulation Rates Continue to Plummet

Noel Sheppard
 

Washington Post Demonstrates Its War Coverage Priorities

The Washington Post published two articles today about the war in Iraq. One made the front-page, the other was relegated to page A16. Curiously, the one dealing with a major offensive along the Syrian border was buried. By contrast, the one dealing with American casualties was on the front-page. In an article entitled “For Many in Iraq, Death is Quick and Capricious,” Steve Fainaru shared recent…
Noel Sheppard
 

Mike Wallace: Liberal Bias Charge “Damn Foolishness,” No Bias Behi

Interviewed by his son, Chris, in a pre-taped session for Fox News Sunday, Mike Wallace of CBS’s 60 Minutes rejected as “damn foolishness” the notion of any liberal media bias. Mike Wallace contended, as if it were in doubt, that reporters are “patriots just as much as any conservative. Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country.” Mike Wallace then condescendingly…
Brent Baker
 

Couric Finds McCain's "No Confidence" in Rummy "So Refreshing

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS Producer Peddles 'Jesus Juice' Wine Label

A CBS producer who led the network's coverage of the recent Michael Jackson trial has been marketing a brand of wine under the label "Jesus Juice," complete with a logo of a Christ figure sporting a Jacksonesque red glove, fedora hat, white socks, and penny loafers NewsBusters.org has learned that Bruce Rheins, a high-level producer for such shows as the "CBS Evening News", and his wife,…
Matthew Sheffield
 

TIME: Rove, Rumsfeld, and Snow Are About to Leave the Bush Administrat

Although the focus of the article is deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, TIME.com is reporting (hat tip to Drudge Report) that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Treasury Secretary John Snow will also be part of an imminent White House reorganization:“Karl Rove's colleagues don't know exactly when it will happen, but they are already laying out the reasons they will give for the departure of…
Noel Sheppard
 

French Muslims Issue False Fatwa

John Armor
 

NY Times Flip-Flops on Tax Cuts This Weekend

For those of you who were confused, that was an article in today’s New York Times complaining about the lack of tax cuts in the two reform proposals offered by the president’s advisory panel last week. For those that missed it, Edmund L. Andrews wrote a piece this morning about the recommendations of this panel for future reforms to America’s tax code. In it, he appeared disappointed that there…
Noel Sheppard
 

NY Times's Calame Concerned About Blurring Distinction Between Ads and

Noel Sheppard
 

NBC’s West Wing Fantasy: Pro-Choice Repub Soars Without Right Wing B

Hollywood's fantasy that Republicans could sweep the nation if they only put up a "pro-choice" candidate animated last Sunday's episode -- and Janeane Garofalo got in a blast at conservatives. NBC is promising an "unprecedented West Wing event" in tonight’s sweeps stunt of a live debate between liberal presidential candidate "Matt Santos," played by Jimmy Smits, and the anti-religious right…

Brent Baker
 

"Pirate" affiliation concealed

David Lanza
 

Totenberg Calls Ginsburg a “Pretty Conservative Liberal” and Alito

On NBC’s “Meet The Press” this morning, host Tim Russert stocked his panel with three left-of-center journalists – Nina Totenberg of NPR, Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, and David Gregory of NBC News – to discuss the events of the week. When they got to the nomination of Samuel Alito to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Russert mentioned that when Bill Clinton was president…
Noel Sheppard