Update: ABC Finds Obama Goofed, Science Funding Went Up Under Reagan

Tim Graham
April 27th, 2009 4:26 PM

Washington Post Criticizes Obama Small Business Tax Whopper (No, I Am

Christine Hall
April 27th, 2009 4:14 PM

NBC Affiliate Meteorologist Rips MSNBC for Apocalyptic Global Warming

NBC Universal and its networks have been criticized for the global warming alarmism it parades on a regular basis. However, now the criticism is coming from its own affiliates. Prior to its April 26 airing on MSNBC, shows on NBC had been promoting the first part of the climate special "Future Earth" - an MSNBC program that used computer animation to show the possibilities of a polar icecap…
Jeff Poor
April 27th, 2009 3:47 PM

ABC's David Muir Seriously Touts Vetting, Oversight of Modern Journali

"World News Saturday" anchor David Muir appeared on the Media Bistro's "Morning Media Menu" podcast on Friday and asserted that the fact that online journalists are now eligible to compete for a Pulitzer Prize might increase the professionalism of bloggers and could, in the future, "give [online reporting] more weight, more credence and people will know that what they're reading isn't simply one…
Scott Whitlock
April 27th, 2009 3:27 PM

CBS Reporter Notes Robert Gibbs Faux Pas: Started Briefing When Obama

Ken Shepherd
April 27th, 2009 3:18 PM

MRC's Bozell: 'The Media and Obama: 100 Days and Still Madly in Love

"The liberal media deserve the Tammy Wynette Award for their coverage of Obama’s radical agenda, as they continue to devotedly stand by their man," quipped Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell in an April 27 statement.[see bottom of post for full press release] "For the pro-Obama liberal media, the Obama honeymoon is nowhere near over," Bozell argued, reacting to…
NB Staff
April 27th, 2009 2:41 PM

ABC's Consistent on Flu Threats: Blame the Republicans

Tim Graham
April 27th, 2009 2:12 PM

Obama WH Website Averages a 'C+' from Web Experts Polled by National J

Remember how the media told us throughout 2008 that then-candidate Barack Obama had the most "tech-savvy" presidential campaign in U.S. history? And who can forget all the buzz during the transition period about how the president might have to part company with his Blackberry due to Secret Service security worries. To the media, Obama was light years ahead of any Republican when it came to the…
Ken Shepherd
April 27th, 2009 1:17 PM

CBS’s Stahl: Joe Biden the ‘Schmoozer-in-Chief

During a fawning interview on Sunday’s 60 Minutes on CBS, anchor Lesley Stahl repeated White House talking points portraying Vice President Joe Biden’s constant verbal gaffes as a positive attribute: "After trying to muzzle the man, often ridiculed for his loose lips, the White House now calls his, shall we say, exuberance, an asset. They call it ‘truth-telling.’ And see his talent for connecting…
Kyle Drennen
April 27th, 2009 1:06 PM

Newsweek's Clift Blames Capitalism for Woes Facing Obama

It's a response that might incite laughter, as it did from conservative pundit Monica Crowley and MSNBC paleocon talker Pat Buchanan. According to Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, the current problems facing the country and President Barack Obama are due to capitalism. Clift, appearing on the syndicated April 26 "The McLaughlin Group" gave Obama high marks for his first hundred days and said…
Jeff Poor
April 27th, 2009 11:14 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
April 27th, 2009 9:52 AM

AFP: 'The Obamas Are the Planet's Hottest Rock Stars

Move over Madonna, Miley, and Britney -- the Obamas are the hottest rock stars on the planet!So wrote wire service Agence France-Presse Sunday in a piece so filled with sugar one might require an insulin injection to survive the full reading.In an article entitled "Obamas Rock and Rule," AFP sunk to new lows in gushing and fawning over the first family:
Noel Sheppard
April 27th, 2009 9:42 AM

Study: Obama Drew More TV Coverage Than Bush, Clinton Combined

Tim Graham
April 27th, 2009 8:30 AM

CMI Commentary: CNN Plan B Coverage an Insult to Pro-Life Women

Men spinning the debate for the cable network call 17-year-old's access an 'upshot,' marginalize conservative females.
Julia A. Seymour
April 27th, 2009 12:00 AM