Media Continue to Pound on Obesity Coverage

Fast food restaurants are stalking children; Southerners are getting fatter; and the misleading Body Mass Index is back in the news after a football players death.

Saving at the Pump Means Paying More for Vehicles

Media continue to refine their talking points about failure of new CAFE standards.
Dan Gainor

Washington Post Misrepresents Havoc Caused by U.S. Amendments to U.N

A front-page story in today’s Washington Post suggests that Bush administration amendments to a 29-page draft agreement prepared by the United Nations for its upcoming world summit on poverty and U.N. reform have “thrown the proceedings in turmoil”:Less than a month before world leaders arrive in New York for a world summit on poverty and U.N. reform, the Bush administration has thrown the…
Noel Sheppard

Bernard Goldberg Speaks Out on Sheehan Coverage, Rather

Greg Sheffield

What Liberal Media

Would any reporters like to take a moment away from tearing up Pat Robertson on their front page to mention how heinous it was when former presidential advisor George Stephanopoulos suggested we assassinate Saddam Hussein? Probably not.
Mithridate Ombud

NYTimes Again Demonstrates Its Anti-War Bias

New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller today tried her best to write an article without mentioning anti-war heroine Cindy Sheehan, as well as without impugning the president.  Unfortunately, she failed.In an article about the president’s speech to thousands of National Guard members and their families in Nampa, Idaho, it only took two paragraphs before the story turned from Mr. Bush’s vision…
Noel Sheppard

Bob Herbert Recycles 1999 Column

Clay Waters

WashPost Tries to Handicap Conservatives in the Sports Section

Tim Graham

'Should he be on Vacation

Dustin Hawkins

AOL Continues on Bush Vacation Rant

Rick Moore

Failure to Report that 'Freedom Fighters' Killed Casey Sheehan

Rudy Takala

Selection bias from the Associated Press

Lyford Beverage

Delusions at the Stephanie Miller Show

Dave Pierre

Olbermann Targets Hume as “Worser” in “Worst Person in the World

On his MSNBC Countdown show on Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann, who described the Fox News Channel as “just a brand name, not a description,” named FNC's Brit Hume his “runner-up” in his daily “Worst Person in the World” gimmick. What riled Olbermann? Hume daring to criticize as “'excessive' the TV coverage of Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela…
Brent Baker