Dan Rather Hails Cronkite As 'Beacon' of 'Straight News

Chris Matthews, on Monday's "Hardball," invited on Dan Rather to remember Walter Cronkite and the former CBS News anchor – famously fired for letting his bias spiral out of control during the George W. Bush National Guard story – called Cronkite "a straight news reporter," and claimed Cronkite advised him and others at CBS News to "Tell it straight without fear or favoritism. Pull no punches. Say…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 20th, 2009 6:35 PM

Joe Klein Denounces Israeli Govt. as 'Prime Impediment to Progress' in

So what's the biggest obstacle to Mideast peace? Hamas terrorists who refuse to accept Israel has a right to exist? Perhaps the Iranian government that finances anti-Israel terror operations? Neither, according to Time's Joe Klein (shown at right in file photo), who insists in a July 20 Swampland blog post the fault lies with Israel:Benjamin Netanyahu's phony flexibility on a two-state solution…
Ken Shepherd
July 20th, 2009 6:20 PM

Networks Ignore Chappaquiddick Anniversary; NPR’s Rudin Gets 'Ugly

While the big liberal media usually find it hard to skip any news related to the Kennedy family, ABC, CBS and NBC breathed not a word about Saturday’s 40th anniversary of Chappaquiddick. On the night of July 18, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy left a party with 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne and later drove off a bridge. Kennedy left the scene with Kopechne still in the submerged vehicle; he did not…
Rich Noyes
July 20th, 2009 4:51 PM

Washington Post and Environmentalism: Yesterday's Fix is Today's Crisi

Catherine Maggio
July 20th, 2009 4:38 PM

Sun Times Group Publishes 'Varied' Versions of Rise of Islam Conferenc

Little has been made about yesterday's "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" conference that was held at the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom in Oak Lawn, IL. The conference was held by the group Hizb Ut Tahrir; a group that has been banned in Germany, Russia, Pakistan and several other Middle Eastern countries. Yet most mainstream media organizations in the United States didn't even bother…
Terry Trippany
July 20th, 2009 4:34 PM

Unhappy 'Humpday

Sarah Knoploh
July 20th, 2009 4:13 PM

NY Times's Jill Abramson Still Angry at Congress for Treatment of Anit

The Sunday Week in Review cover story by New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson, "Women On The Verge Of The Law," dealt with the just-concluded confirmation hearings of Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and how things have changed and not changed since the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings, which also featured the grilling of a minority woman, Anita Hill.At least that's Abramson's…
Clay Waters
July 20th, 2009 4:10 PM

Minority Broadcasters Seek Bailout

Managing Editor's Note: What follows was originally published at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog on July 20, 2009. Well if we can spend millions to protect the salt marsh mouse in San Francisco Bay, we can surely shell out billions to bail out minority broadcasters. It’s good for the economy and after all Congress is on record as saying it needs to save our nation’s newspapers, too.  So,…
Brian Jennings
July 20th, 2009 3:29 PM

Mayo Clinic Rebukes Obamacare, How Will Media Respond

The Mayo Clinic on Monday issued a startling rebuke to the Obama administration coming down strongly against the healthcare reform proposal offered by House Democrats last week.In a statement posted at the Clinic's Health Policy Blog, one of the most respected medical institutions in the nation said: "[T]he proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher-quality, more affordable…
Noel Sheppard
July 20th, 2009 2:54 PM

ABC's Raddatz Questions Hillary from Left; Hypes Obama's 'Thoughtful

On Monday’s GMA, ABC’s Martha Raddatz pressed Hillary Clinton from the left on the Obama administration’s stance towards North Korea: “From the beginning...the rhetoric seemed almost exactly like the Bush administration’s, and it didn’t do much good. So is it a real shift that you decided to dial back?” Earlier in the month, she also labeled the overall Obama foreign policy “very thoughtful.”The…
Matthew Balan
July 20th, 2009 2:25 PM

OT: Cap and Tax Supporting GOPer Booed at Town Hall Meeting

In case you were wondering if there might be some consequence for the eight Republican members of Congress that voted for cap and tax last month, watch how Delaware's Mike Castle got roughed up by citizens at a recent town hall meeting (h/t Planet Gore):
Noel Sheppard
July 20th, 2009 2:11 PM

Brian Williams Worships Cronkite: I 'Was Able to Breathe the Air He Ex

It’s one thing to honor the deceased, but it’s another to suggest a mere human anchorman seemed like a god, whose set would be the site of a "pilgrimage" to the "center of the universe." On Friday night’s Larry King Live, NBC anchor Brian Williams oozed that he loved the anchor since childhood: "I have lived such a charmed life that I got the chance to explain that to Walter and tell him that and…
Tim Graham
July 20th, 2009 2:08 PM

CBS Analyst: Taliban Treats Prisoners Better Than U.S

In reaction to a propaganda video of the Taliban holding an American soldier hostage in Afghanistan, on Monday’s CBS Early Show, terrorism analyst Jere Van Dyk argued: “What they [the Taliban] are saying is that ‘we can treat American soldiers, we can treat prisoners, better than Americans are treating them.’”Speaking to co-host Maggie Rodriguez about the capture of Private First Class Bowe…
Kyle Drennen
July 20th, 2009 1:51 PM

MRC's Bozell Discusses Health Care, Card Check, Announces MRC Bailout

"The more these things are made public, the more the American people run like hell from them," Media Research Center President Brent Bozell told the hosts of "Fox & Friends", referring to an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that shows Democratic health care proposals will balloon in costs over their implementation. [audio available here]Indeed, as the Washington Post…
NB Staff
July 20th, 2009 11:57 AM