CBS Discounts Global Warming as Culprit, Notes Big Storms in Past

A day after NBC's Matt Lauer asked on Today, "why are there so many hurricanes this year and is global warming to blame?" and Robert Bazell ominously concluded an NBC Nightly News story by asserting that "many experts say" hurricane-fueling global warming "results partly from humans releasing greenhouse gases possibly creating even more violent storms in the future," ABC and CBS aired stories…
Brent Baker
 

The Times Sees "Censors" at Ground Zero

Clay Waters
 

Carter and Baker Answer the NY Times

In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, former president Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James Baker answered their critics – one of them being the Times itself – concerning voter reforms they have proposed.As reported by NewsBusters on Tuesday, the Times came out strongly against Carter and Baker’s proposals largely due to a requirement for voters to have proper identification to cast…
Noel Sheppard
 

The coarsening of America

Mithridate Ombud
 

Tired WashPost Publicity Line: "Peace" Rally Draws "Protesters of All

Tim Graham
 

Today Show's Rita Coverage Stirs Ashes of Katrina's Racial Discord: "W

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS Affiliate Goes Ghost Hunting

There are some who would argue journalists don't do serious stories about religion. The respect for a higher power cherished by the majority in this country is not a voice represented in the newsroom. Some might think that even when religion is approached in a story, it is treated like wacky antics of the criminally insane. Well that just isn't true. You obviously don't care about black people…
Mithridate Ombud
 

AP: Clinton 'Accused' of Having Relations with Lewinsky

Mike Bates
 

"ALLThings Considered"? NPR Promotes Cindy Sheehan But Ignores Pro-Mis

Dave Pierre
 

CBS Evening News Executive Producer Castigates NewsBusters Stories

Declaring that the Media Research Center “is a much more biased organization than any institution in the MSM," CBS Evening News Executive Producer Jim Murphy, on the CBS News “Public Eye” blog on Thursday, criticized two MRC CyberAlert articles I wrote which were first posted this week on NewsBusters. Public Eye Editor Vaughn Ververs asked Murphy to comment on a September 20 NewsBusters item…
Brent Baker
 

Silence is Golden, and Absent During Breaking News Broadcasts

Rick Moore
 

Take His Daughter for an Abortion? Gov. Schwarzenegger Would "Kill

Sharon Hughes
 

AP & NY Times: Mind Readers, or Classical Bigots

John Armor
 

Movie Reviewers Complain About Pro-Life Premise in "Just Like Heaven

Ken Shepherd