MSNBC.com on 'Sharing' Social Security Numbers w/ 'Undocumented Worker

Identity theft, defrauding the federal government, and illegal immigration are serious criminal matters.But if you're the Web editor for MSNBC.com, stolen Social Security numbers are merely "shared" with "undocumented workers" stuck in a web of "federal employment laws." From the subheadline for the front page tease to the May 27 edition of "Red Tape Chronicles" (see screencap above at right):…
Ken Shepherd
 

Election 2000: Media Continue to Downplay FL's Military Ballots Contro

Pretty Dern Selective On Sunday, NewsBusters' Brent Baker noted how unhappy actress Laura Dern is with the 2000 presidential election ("Dern 'Devastated' by Florida 'Because There Were Uncounted Votes'"). Dern plays then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in HBO's "Recount," which first aired on Sunday. Dern's displeasure has an apparently limited focus. A review of the CNN program…
Tom Blumer
 

BMI’s Gainor: Media Coverage Was More Upbeat at Start of the Great D

Nathan Burchfiel
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

The Huffington Post's Memorial Day: Bush Is a Murderer

Tim Graham
 

Hardball's Haggard Hillary Promo Pic

If NewsBusters were ever to use in its promotional material a photo this unflattering of Hillary Clinton, we'd be accused of the worst kind of sexism, of unfairly attacking a candidate based on her looks rather than her views. Check out the image of Hillary that MSNBC used in its promo of tonight's Hardball with Chris Matthews that aired at 5:59 AM EDT today just before Morning Joe came on the…
Mark Finkelstein
 

CNN Creates Sunday Show for Liberal Journalist Fareed Zakaria

CNN has decided to give weekly, hour-long Sunday show to Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International, whose writings and media appearances over the last few years peg him as a pretty conventional liberal on foreign and domestic policy. The AP's David Bauder reported Monday that “'Fareed Zakaria -- GPS,' which stands for 'global public square,' will air Sundays at 1 p.m. EDT and be…
Brent Baker
 

NewsBusted

NB Staff
 

Will Media Report Obama Seeing Dead People in Memorial Day Audience

The gaffes continued this holiday weekend for the media's presidential candidate.Having mispronounced the name of the Florida city he was speaking in on Friday, as well as erred about what president was in the White House when Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, Barack Obama talked about seeing dead people in the audience during a Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico.Of course, you're not…
Noel Sheppard
 

Why Was Parsley a Problem for McCain? Media PC

ABC can't distinguish between criticizing a religion and hating its believers.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

Prince Caspian's Appeal

Pro-God Narnia films outstrip anti-God Golden Compass.
L. Brent Bozell III
 

Are Women Responsible For Growth in Goverment

Terry Ann Rendon
 

Memorial Day... A Great Time For Stories About How Bad Our Troops Are

On the weekend when America finds her citizens taking just a little time out of their cluttered and busy lives to pause and memorialize the sacrifice of those who have served and protected us all, the media always sees fit to make their observance of Memorial Day the issuance of stories about how bad our solders are, how bad they have it, or how bad they deserve to be treated. This year is no…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Lorain (OH) Councilman's Arrest Is a Group 'Name That Party' Failure

Also see the compare-and-contrast example in the final paragraph. A city councilman in Lorain, Ohio, a city of about 75,000 west of Cleveland, was arrested during a prostitution sting on Friday. Of the six stories I found covering the event (the Google News search is for May 22-26), only one referred to the political party of councilman Dennis Flores, who is a Democrat (scroll down to "Second…
Tom Blumer