Eleanor Clift Losing Faith in Obama

Is this a sign of the times? Liberal columnist Eleanor Clift has joined her ideological colleagues, Mika Brzezinski and Paul Krugman, in criticizing President Barack Obama recently. What set Clift off was Obama's evasiveness in revealing whether he approved or knew in advance the AIG bonuses provided by his stimulus bill. Clift takes aim at both Obama and Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, in her…
P.J. Gladnick
March 25th, 2009 9:52 AM

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Dear AIG, I Quit!After 12 months of hard work dismantling the company — during which A.I.G. reassured us many times we would be rewarded in March 2009 — we in the financial products unit have been betrayed by A.I.G. and are being unfairly persecuted by elected officials. In response to this, I will now leave the company and donate my…
NB Staff
March 25th, 2009 9:51 AM

CNBC Panders: Invites Lefty Blogger Arianna Huffington to Co-Host Show

Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post announces on Facebook she will be co-hosting CNBC's 'Squawk Box.'
Jeff Poor
March 25th, 2009 9:34 AM

WaPo 'Critic' Tom Shales Hails Obama Presser: 'Still Every Inch, Presi

Tim Graham
March 25th, 2009 8:41 AM

Obama Reaches out to Media... But Only Lefty Ones

Imagine the howls of anguish that would have belched forth from the Old Media if George W. Bush had decided to only talk to Fox News and Drudge? Imagine if members of Bush's administration had reached out only to the Internet sites RedState and Powerline. What if Bush had instituted a concerted effort to only interact with conservative media sources? Who can doubt that the Old Media would have…
Warner Todd Huston
March 25th, 2009 4:24 AM

Baracking - Too Cool For School

The Albany Times Union recently showed the breadth of their journalistic abilities by doing a head scratching piece on ‘Baracking' - a supposed new culture-changing form of slang.  Ah, so that's what the kids are calling it... Scott Waldman of the Union apparently suffered from what those in the business would call ‘a slow news day' this past weekend.  As such, he ran with a piece on two local…
Rusty Weiss
March 25th, 2009 2:43 AM

Stephanopoulos: Obama and Press Corps 'Hit Their Marks Tonight

Brent Baker
March 25th, 2009 1:50 AM

Liberal Blog Co-Founder/Editor Arianna Huffington to Guest Host CNBC M

Perhaps this post could be headlined "CNBC Continues to Atone for Its Outspoken Obama Criticism." As if announcing Democratic National Committee chairman and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as a "CNBC contributor" weren't enough, CNBC has invited the editor in chief of one of the its biggest critics to guest co-host one of CNBC's most popular shows. Originally reported in a status update from…
Jeff Poor
March 25th, 2009 12:24 AM

Hundreds of NPRs: Dem Senator Introduces 'Newspaper Revitalization Act

I said earlier this year (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) that there was reason to believe that 2009 might be the year of the newspaper bailout. Now one of Maryland's two Democratic US senators thinks he has come up with a way to subsidize and save them -- while simultaneously turning them into house organs for his party. Ben Cardin (picture at right is from his Senate web site) has introduced "The…
Tom Blumer
March 25th, 2009 12:02 AM

Self Magazine's Abortion Article Fails to Show Both Sides

The Multifetal-reduction piece isn't a complete picture, never giving pro-life women a voice.
Erin Brown
March 25th, 2009 12:00 AM

Fight Over Obama, Notre Dame Address Leaves Networks Speechless

Radical pro-choice president speaking at a Catholic graduation ceremony is non-controversial to broadcast journalists.
Colleen Raezler
March 25th, 2009 12:00 AM

Audacity of the Pope

Media lambastes Benedict XVI for sticking to Church doctrine and committing condom heresy.
Colleen Raezler
March 25th, 2009 12:00 AM

Admire Obama's 'Like to Know What I'm Talking About Before I Speak

Brent Baker
March 24th, 2009 10:45 PM

CNBC Host Larry Kudlow Announces He Will Not Run for U.S. Senate

It had been one of the many points of contention against CNBC by the left-wing attack machine - that "The Kudlow Report" host Larry Kudlow was using his show as a platform to make a run at the U.S. Senate in 2010 against Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd. Well, they're going to have to find another way to try to marginalize Kudlow, as they have with other CNBC personalities. Kudlow announced on his…
Jeff Poor
March 24th, 2009 8:09 PM