George Stephanopoulos in Russia: Skips Violence Against Journalists, H

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos reported live from Russia on Monday and Tuesday and, despite devoting 32 minutes to interviewing the country's President and other officials, never once brought up the hundreds of journalists who have been died mysteriously in the country over the last 17 years. On Monday, Stephanopoulos did challenge President Dmitry Medvedev on Iran, sanctions and…
Scott Whitlock
April 13th, 2010 12:09 PM

CBS's Smith: Obama's 'Historic' Nuke Summit 'Already Yielded Some Quic

At the top of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "At an historic summit, President Obama joins world leaders to try to stop terrorists from obtaining nuclear weapons." He later declared: "It's the largest gathering of world leaders hosted by a U.S. President since the 1945 conference that founded the United Nations. And it's already yielded some quick results." White House…
Kyle Drennen
April 13th, 2010 12:05 PM

Kathleen Parker Admits Winning Pulitzer Prize For Bashing Conservative

Kathleen Parker on Tuesday admitted that she won the Pulitzer Prize because she's a "conservative basher."Having likely heard the gang on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" discussing Monday's announcement concerning her award, Parker called in to the program and was introduced by the host, "[S]omething big happened last night: A conservative won a Pulitzer Prize. It just never happens."Scarborough continued…
Noel Sheppard
April 13th, 2010 11:08 AM

Brian Williams, Media Critic? Anchor Questions Newsweek's Headline 'Am

After the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) cracked the 11,000 mark on April 12, some are asking if the economy is back. And while some want to credit President Barack Obama for this so-called recovery, is this financial market rally a true indicator of returning economic prosperity?  The anchor of "NBC Nightly News" asked just that question, pointing out the cover of the April 19 issue of…
Jeff Poor
April 13th, 2010 10:07 AM

Less than 20 Percent of Young Consider Oral Sex Sex; CBS Asks 'Why the

A recent article from CBS Healthwatch contributor Kelli Stacy revealed new findings from a study done by University of Kentucky researchers indicating that less than 20 percent of young adults believe "Oral contract with partner's genitals" constitutes "sex." In 1991 a similar survey found that approximately 40 percent of young adults considered oral sex as "sex," Stacy noted. Researchers…
Anthony Kang
April 13th, 2010 10:02 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
April 13th, 2010 8:31 AM

MRC Special Report: How the Media Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Te

The Tea Party movement launched one year ago, in response to the unprecedented expansion of government by President Barack Obama and congressional liberals, a massive increase in spending that will create economy-crushing fiscal burdens for future generations of taxpayers.In that relatively brief period, the Tea Party has demonstrated it is a formidable political force. The pressure the movement…
Rich Noyes
April 13th, 2010 7:49 AM

'Conservative Bent' of Justice Stevens? An Overview of NY Times Covera

The front pages of the New York Times over the weekend were dominated by the announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, with stories looking back at his legacy as well as looking toward the upcoming political battle over replacing him.The upcoming-battle story was provided Sunday by Peter Baker and Carl Hulse, "G.O.P. Weighs Political Price Of Court Fight," complete with the…
Clay Waters
April 13th, 2010 7:28 AM

WaPo Boosts Gibbs, Disses Press: 'Positive Coverage Has Always Been a

On Tuesday's front page, Washington Post reporter Jason Horowitz reported press secretary Robert Gibbs will eventually be promoted out of that pedestrian job of White House press secretary and become a senior strategist. Team Obama's disdain for their press enablers was a given: By and large, positive coverage has always been a fact of life in the Obama universe, so it's not surprising that the…
Tim Graham
April 13th, 2010 7:05 AM

USA Today's Biskupic Sees SCOTUS of 'Ideological...Conservatives' and

In a Monday article, USA Today's Joan Biskupic (her “Court Beat” blog) identified retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens as “liberal,” but in an accompanying sidebar on “second court picks by recent presidents,” she saw Republicans naming “ideological” conservatives to advance their agendas while Democrat Bill Clinton picked “pragmatic liberals.” Yes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a “pragmatic…
Brent Baker
April 13th, 2010 12:51 AM

Justice Stevens a Conservative

Retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is actually a conservative according to Newsweek columnist Andrew Romano, who apparently hasn't read any Supreme Court decisions in the last 20 years or so.Romano rejects the notion that Stevens is a liberal, going so far as to chastise his fellow members of the media who frequently get suckered by "whichever shorthand, cheat-sheet label gets…
Jason Aslinger
April 12th, 2010 10:02 PM

Environmentalists’ New UN Proposal – Put ‘Ecocide’ and ‘Deni

Britain's left-of-center daily - "The Guardian" - has reported that former international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins has launched a new campaign urging the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to deem environmental damage on par with genocide and crimes against humanity in international courts. "Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute ‘…
Anthony Kang
April 12th, 2010 7:46 PM

Newsweek Trots Out Discredited SPLC Lawyer Mark Potok to Decry 'Patrio

Why does the mainstream media keep trotting out the Boy Who Cried Right-Wing Terrorist? Better known as Mark Potok of the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center, he has been trumpeted by a number of media outlets seeking to promote the notion that "right-wingers" are lurking behind every corner to overthrow the federal government.The fact that he is consistently wrong about, well, just about…
Lachlan Markay
April 12th, 2010 6:40 PM

Bozell: Media Must Stop Bogus Reports about the Catholic Church and Po

Editor's Note: What follows is a statement Mr. Bozell released earlier today wherein he declared the intentional disparaging and false reporting of the Catholic Church and its leader Pope Benedict XVI an atrocity, and demanded the media immediately end their exaggerations:The Catholic Church has always endured unfair characterizations from the left-wing media, but the most recent and phony ‘…
Brent Bozell
April 12th, 2010 6:34 PM