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NB Staff

Network News Anchors to Travel to Iraq With Obama

If the reports are true, Barack Obama has gone from Democrat presidential candidate to an out and out media star.According to the New York Times, when the junior senator from Illinois goes to Iraq in the coming weeks, all three network broadcast news anchors will go there to interview him. This goes in stark contrast to what happened when John McCain visited Iraq last March. I guess it's good to…
Noel Sheppard

Worshipping Media to Follow Obama on Iraq Trip

John Stephenson

ABC Hypes IndyMac Panic For Third Day Straight

'Good Morning America' continues to feed hysteria over bank failures.
Kelly Brown

NYT Stock at 12-Year Low; Many NYT.com Search Capabilities Apparently

A visit to the Vanderbilt TV News archives (no link; registration is required) reveals that on September 20, 1996: GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole was trying to make up lost ground against incumbent President Bill Clinton, while Ross Perot was filing a Federal Elections Commission complaint over being excluded from televised presidential debates. It was disclosed that Unabomber suspect Ted…
Tom Blumer

Eat a Big Mac: Buy a Carbon Credit

P.J. Gladnick

Gas Prices Cause Louisiana Women to Resort to 'Pole Dancing

WAFB TV Channel 9, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana pulled out all the stops for this ridiculous report claiming that "some women" in the Pelican State are resorting to working in strip clubs because gasoline is so expensive. To prove it, WAFB found one woman that said so. I'd say that clinches this as "fact," then, wouldn't you? In typical sensationalistic news fashion, WAFB TV assumes that because…
Warner Todd Huston

NYDaily News: 'Lifelong Conservative' Throwing all Principles to The W

Larry Hunter claims he is a "lifelong conservative." Yet, in his recent New York Daily News article, he also says he is voting for Barack Obama for president. The two simply cannot coexist. One has to be obliterated in favor of the other. And, regardless of the facile reasoning Hunter gives for his apostasy, this article does nothing to support any supposed conservative cause. It does, however,…
Warner Todd Huston

Olbermann Slams 'Homophobe' Jesse Helms

Brad Wilmouth

Media Ignore Pro-Family Protest of McDonald's 'Hate' Smear

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Colleen Raezler

WaPo Slams U.S. Census Bureau for Upholding Federal Marriage Law

Same-sex marriages will not count as marriages in the 2010 census, in accordance with the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The Post report quotes three people who oppose the decision but only one supporter.
Julia Seward

'Bi-Curious' Summer

Hollywood calculates how to profit from pushing the envelope.
L. Brent Bozell III

Gibson Calms Down as ABC Leads with Good Econ News, But CBS

A night after ABC anchor Charles Gibson hit full panic mode by leading with how “markets are gyrating, inflation is rising, banks are closing” and suggesting money is only safe “under the mattress,” on Wednesday night he actually began with how “Wall Street posts its best day in months. Financial stocks rise. The price of oil falls.” But he couldn't be completely upbeat as he proceeded to note…
Brent Baker

WaPo Turns Dem into 'Conservative' in Intern Murder Series

Robert Knight