Gene Shalit, Matt Lauer Hail CBS-Glorifying Movie Against Anti-Communi

Tim Graham
 

Olbermann Leads with Choreographed Bush Event, Features Milbank Mockin

Mirroring the same evening's NBC Nightly News (see earlier NewsBusters item), on Thursday night's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann led with the rehearsed meeting between President Bush and U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Olbermann spent considerable time showing and making fun of clips from this event and from a contentious White House press briefing with Scott McClellan before proceeding to…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Shocked, Just Shocked Network Reporters Hype “Staged” Bush Event w

Thursday's NBC Nightly News led, yes led, with how, as anchor Brian Williams put it, President Bush had that morning conducted “a staged event" via satellite with ten U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi soldier in Iraq. “Today's encounter was billed as spontaneous,” Williams intoned. “Instead, it appeared to follow a script.” Andrea Mitchell warned that “the troops were coached on how to answer the…
Brent Baker
 

Dobbsing for Bias

Dan Gainor
 

VIDEO: Helen Thomas: "I'm Opposed to Preemptive War

Ian Schwartz
 

Tina Brown Marks Iron Lady's 80th Birthday With Slam at Miers

Ken Shepherd
 

CBS Public Eye: Mike Wallace "Creates A Perception Problem" At Anti-Gu

Tim Graham
 

So Where Is The Good News

Tom Segel
 

Media Create the News -- Then Report It

Greg Sheffield
 

Russert on Today: Democrats "Giddy" Over NBC Poll Results

Geoffrey Dickens
 

NYT Provides Fodder for Democratic Dreams to Take Congress

Clay Waters
 

Grandpa Rocky, Grandpa Rambo

Here is an interesting item linked to by Matt Drudge. London's Daily Mail reports that 60-year-old Sylvester Stallone will star in a new Rocky movie and a new Rambo movie.
Greg Sheffield
 

Pentagon Spokesman Becomes Al Jazeera Correspondent

Greg Sheffield
 

Today Show Asks: Heating Bills or Heart Medicine

Mark Finkelstein