To the Networks, Tiger Woods Gossip 15 Times More Newsworthy Than Clim

If ABC, NBC and CBS's judgment is correct, Tiger Woods's infidelity is more important than a climate change scandal involving high profile scientists, potentially ‘manipulated' data, and censorship of skeptics among the scientific community. How much more important? Over 15 times. Despite the impending Copenhagen climate conference, the networks ignored the ClimateGate scandal for 13 straight…
Julia A. Seymour

CNN Catches Up On Baucus Scandal & Labels as Dem More Than Other Nets

While it has been documented that CNN's Howard Kurtz chided his own news network for ignoring the recently-revealed scandal involving Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus nominating his girlfriend for a U.S. attorney position -- after the CNN anchor had monitored CNN on Saturday -- it turns out that on Sunday morning, even before Kurtz's Reliable Sources show had begun, CNN had already started…
Brad Wilmouth

56 Papers Issue Joint Editorial Demanding Action On 'Profound Emergenc

The earth is burning, the earth is burning! And it's all our fault! That's the essence of an editorial slated to appear in 56 newspapers worldwide today, including at least one in the U.S. Michelle Malkin pointedly notes that we aren't likely to see much interest in ClimateGate out of these "Chicken Little" publications. Here are some paragraphs from the very deep, very wide fever swamp, taken…
Tom Blumer

John Stossel's New Fox Business Show Debuts Thursday

NB Staff

Uncle Sam's Collections Crunch and Record Deficits Continue; Press Cov

Blogger Doug Ross got to the news of the Congressional Budget Office's Monthly Budget Report (PDF) over the weekend, quite accurately observing that the establishment news coverage of its content barely existed. The results of searches at the Associated Press's raw feed page on "Congressional Budget Office" (not in quotes) and "CBO" confirm Doug's observation, as no result returned relates to…
Tom Blumer

CBS Host Grills GOP Senator On ObamaCare Opposition; Softballs to Demo

On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez pressed Republican Senator Lamar Alexander on the GOP’s opposition to ObamaCare: “...there’s been a lot of criticism that Republicans have done nothing but oppose this bill, nothing to help pass it, just try to kill it....have you done more than say ‘no, no, no, no, no’?”At the top of the show, Rodriguez described a weekend visit by President…
Kyle Drennen

ABC’s Roberts: Health Care Bill Would be ‘Historic Moment’; Bill

A defensive Robin Roberts on Monday lauded the potential passage of any kind of health care bill as a "historic moment," seeming to bristle at Bill O’Reilly’s grade of a D for the President’s performance on this issue. The Fox News host appeared on Good Morning America to award Barack Obama a D, C and B, overall. O’Reilly bluntly assessed, "Health care, I'd say D as in dog...But, you can't be…
Scott Whitlock

NBC's Thompson Covers Climategate Only to Dismiss It

NBC's Anne Thompson, on Monday's Today, covered the Climategate story only to essentially dismiss it in a nothing-to-see here, move along fashion. CBS's The Early Show had a brief mention of it, and ABC's Good Morning America did nothing. Thompson, reporting live from Copenhagen, opened her piece declaring that delegates determined "this could be their last best chance to deal with the…
Geoffrey Dickens

MSNBC's Scarborough Points Out NPR's Bias Hypocrisy

For the dog-bites-man news category: Joe Scarborough had a moment of intellectual schizophrenia today.On MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Willie Geist and Politico.com executive editor Jim VandeHei were discussing a Politico story about internal political pressures at National Public Radio (NPR).  Apparently, NPR's top political correspondent Mara Liasson was asked by NPR executives to reconsider her…
Mike Sargent

Politico: 'NPR Reporter Pressured Over Fox Role

The Obama Administration isn't the only government-funded entity campaigning against Fox News.  "NPR reporter pressured over Fox role" headlines an article by Josh Gerstein on Politico's Web site.  It begins:Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as…
Mike Bates

Petitions Against Domestic Trials for Polanski, KSM Show Hollywood's T

Hollywood liberalism has some strange priorities. During the last couple months, two high-profile criminals have been slated to face justice in American courts. The first drugged and raped a young girl in 1977. The second orchestrated the most deadly attack against American civilians in our nation's history.Decisions to try them in the United States were controversial, but a petition against the…
Lachlan Markay

'Saturday Night Live' Criticized for Tiger Woods Cheating Skit

Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Rush Limbaugh Chats With William Shatner

Over the summer, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh did an interview with William Shatner for Biography Channel's new program "Shatner's Raw Nerve."It aired Sunday evening as the premiere episode.Much of the discussion was indeed biographical talking about Limbaugh's childhood, his parents, his hearing problem, and things largely unrelated to politics.In the middle of the interview,…
Noel Sheppard