CBS's Byron Pitts Concedes He's 'Excited' by Obama's Nomination

On Sunday's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz played a clip of CBS reporter Byron Pitts on Wednesday's CBS Evening News hailing Barack Obama's Democratic nomination victory as proof “one of America's oldest and ugliest color lines has been broken, and there is a new bridge for a new generation,” then proposed: “You obviously are paid to be an objective journalist, but some part of you must be…
Brent Baker
 

CNN Shows Us How We Are Reliving 1968 in

Did you know that we are reliving 1968 again? George W. Bush is like Lyndon B. Johnson, unpopular. Iraq is like Vietnam, unpopular. The civil rights movement is represented in Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy parallels the women's movement. The energized youth voting in this primary is comparable to the college students protesting Vietnam in 1968. Well, that's what a program…
Terry Ann Rendon
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: sweltering heat in the East.The press now is all abuzz with this current heatwave. Yet, as many of you are aware, the month of May was rather chilly around our nation.With this in mind, how's that global warming thing treating you? How would you measure 2008 versus recent years and your memory of the past? How's the summer starting off…
NB Staff
 

Are Bloggers More Skeptical Than the Obama-Worshipping MSM

Tim Graham
 

Bradley Award Winners Call for Moral Clarity, Economic and Cultural Re

Kevin Mooney
 

How You Gonna Keep Her Down at the White House, After She's Seen Maori

Imagine a conservative commentator suggesting Hillary would rather spend time up-close-and-personal in the company of bare-chested warriors than with Bill. Cries of sexism and intrusion on privacy could be expected to echo through the media.But don't expect the MSM to blink over Mika Brzezinski having suggested the same regarding Laura and George W. With Joe Scarborough off today, Mika again was…
Mark Finkelstein
 

'Bush Lied' Argument Doesn't Match Facts -- Democrats Say

Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt will no doubt upset liberal bloggers with his Monday column underscoring something the rest of the national media elite hasn't exactly underscored: that the "Bush lied, people died" line doesn't match what Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee found and some media outlets forwarded. For instance, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Brian…
Tim Graham
 

Pregnant 'Man' Photos Make Morning Shows Squeamish

ABC, NBC use she, he and it to describe Thomas Beatie.
Kristen Fyfe
 

American School Books Redefine 'Jihad' to Exclude Violence -- Where is

In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic "Jihad." Now, our children will not be taught what "Jihad" truly means, nor that it has been used as an excuse to kill their…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Will Media Report Anti-Semitic Article at Obama's Website

If the official John McCain for President website featured an anti-Semitic article about the Jewish lobby, would media report it?Probably so much so that the Republican presidential nominee would be forced to issue an explanation and an apology.Well, on Saturday evening, a person representing Socialists for Obama published an article (link no longer operable) at Barack Obama's official campaign…
Noel Sheppard
 

70% of Americans Believe Reporters Try to Help Their Candidates Win

Although the results of a new poll may not be surprising to NewsBusters readers, it is nonetheless shocking to actually see it in print: 68 percent of Americans "believe most reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win."Even more predictable given how obvious it's been, a majority of respondents also felt Barack Obama has gotten the best press coverage so far during the campaign.…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chgo Sun-Times: Denial of Rev. Wright's Honorary Degree an 'Injustice

Leave it to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times to get her kufi in a twist over the decision by Northwestern University to withdraw the honorary degree they had intended to bestow upon Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's racist "spiritual mentor." In the sort of backwards logic of a woeful Black victim mentality -- Mitchell’s specialty -- Mitchell is claiming that the decision to…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Media Admission: 'Republicans Face More Scrutiny on Race Than Democrat

In the past several months, NewsBusters has been regularly revealing the race-baiting by the Clinton campaign while asking why media weren't doing a better a job of reporting it.At the same time, we've been wondering whether such issues will be similarly ignored if Barack Obama won the nomination, or if race and racism would be used to help him defeat John McCain.On Sunday, an article in New York…
Noel Sheppard
 

Media's Fist Bump Focus Shows They're Obama Fixated and Out of Touch

Since Barack Obama declared himself the Democrat presidential nominee Tuesday, supposedly impartial press members have been sycophantically gushing over the "fist bump" he and his wife shared that evening just prior to his victory speech (video embedded right).Such has been reported by NewsBusters here and here.On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," CNN's Howard Kurtz and guests discussed the media's…
Noel Sheppard