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Will Media Report Gore's Stake in Electricity Conversion
As my fellow NewsBuster Amy Ridenour accurately reported, global warming obsessed media are predictably gushing over Nobel Laureate Al Gore's call for America to completely convert all of its electricity production to solar, wind, and other renewable sources by 2018 (photo courtesy AFP).As they gush, fawn, and genuflect, will press members dare to point out that Gore is heavily invested in…
‘The Situation Room’ Surprisingly Acknowledges Media’s Obama Man
CNN personalities Jack Cafferty and Howard Kurtz made a sudden confession of the mainstream media’s imbalanced coverage of Barack Obama versus John McCain on Thursday’s "The Situation Room." First, in his 5 pm Eastern hour "The Cafferty File," Cafferty labeled the media’s planned coverage of Obama’s first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive nominee an "extravaganza." He then gave some…
MRC's Bozell Discussed Obama's MSM Groupies on 'Fox & Friends
MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on today's "Fox & Friends" around 8:15 a.m. EDT. The topic: Barack Obama's biggest fans, the three network anchors, taking their bias on the road following the Illinois senator to Iraq. [audio available here]Quipped Bozell:If the networks were governed by the FDA, they would have recalled the word "news" from these guys. The…
San Diego Paper: 'Migrant' Deaths at Border Grows, Report Lacks Perspe
The San Diego Union-Tribune published a story last week that typifies the lack of perspective and a refusal to give a more full account of the facts in the illegal immigration debate common from too many media outlets. The Union-Trib was all worried that "22 migrants have died in S.D. sector" but didn't seem too interested in all relevant information, leaving only a vague feeling that sympathy is…
NewsBusted
It's Friday which means it's time for another episode of our comedy show "NewsBusted." Watch it in the orange box over to your right.Topics in today's show include: record-low approval ratings for Congress, California's new global warming sticker for cars, dog meat at the Chinese Olympics, and Wal-Mart's new marketing campaign.Love the show? Help us spread the word! Email this link to today's…
AP's Snow Funeral Story Holds on for 20 Grafs, Then Goes Classless
After the firestorm that erupted Saturday over the Associated Press's classless story on the death of former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, I was hoping that the possibly-chastened wire service could get through its coverage of his funeral without getting in any gratuitous digs. In that horrid Saturday story (blogged at NewsBusters and BizzyBlog), the AP's Douglass K. Daniel, with the…
ABC's The View Gets Hot and Heavy
Barbara Walters and her fellow panel members on waded knee-deep into sex this week, moving from porn to vibrators to S&M Barbie.
DC Flouts Supreme Court on Guns, as Washington Post Advised
Progressive values trump Constitutional rights in certain journalistic circles.
CBS and NBC Champion Gore's 'Green Gauntlet' to End Fossil Fuels
The media love affair with Al Gore continues. Thursday night, after Gore delivered a speech calling for the end of “carbon-based fuels” within ten years, CBS anchor Katie Couric asserted that “as many as 10 million families could have their electricity shut off this year because they simply can't pay their bills,” but, she assured viewers, “Al Gore says there is a green answer.” Reporter Nancy…
American Physical Society Opens Debate on Global Warming
A rather shocking event happened Wednesday: the American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, opened for debate "the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."This is significant because on November 18, 2007, the organization…
MRC/NB's Noyes on FNC Discussing Obama's MSM Groupies
MRC Director of Research and NewsBusters Senior Editor Rich Noyes appeared on the July 17 "Election HQ" program on Fox News Channel. Noyes appeared opposite liberal columnist Ellis Henican to discuss whether there was a double standard by the media in covering Sens. McCain and Obama and their foreign trips. [Audio available here.]The Big Three network news anchors are planning on traveling to…
Joe Scarborough Savages Democratic 'Hacks' at 'The Daily Show
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough slammed the "hacks" at "The Daily Show" on Wednesday for only making fun of Republicans and giving a free pass to Democrats. Discussing a July 15 New York Times piece that described how TV comics and talk show hosts are hesitant to make fun of Barack Obama, Scarborough mocked, "I never want to hear anybody from 'The Daily Show' or any of these other shows ever…