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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…
Cafferty: Investigate Bush for War Crimes
[Update, 5:45 pm, by Matthew Balan: In the past year, Cafferty has called for the impeachment of Bush administration officials or criticized Democrats for failing to do so on 3 other occasions: August 21, 2007; January 7, 2008; and just over a month ago on June 12, 2008.]You might call Jack Cafferty the Dennis Kucinich of the media. Actually, the CNN commentator would go the Dem congressman one…
Time Editor: America Has 'Appetite for Big Government
He may have a poll this time, but something still smells fishy. Time magazine Managing Editor Richard Stengel told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on July 17 that "there's incredible despair out there and there's a sense that, that something needs to be done and people have kind of an appetite for big government in a way" in America. Stengel was citing a new poll, but the interview…
Picture Imperfect: Media Gas 'Tax' Hikes Cost 32 Cents in June
ABC, NBC show images of 'whopping' gasoline prices higher than the national average every time for entire week.
Whoopi Goldberg: Blacks and Whites Live in Different Worlds
Do not say black and white Americans live in the same world or you will feel the wrath of Whoopi Goldberg. That is what Elisabeth Hasselbeck discovered on the July 17 edition of "The View." Upon suggesting that, Whoopi reduced Elisabeth to tears.On the news of Jesse Jackson’s use of the "n" word, the conversation quickly developed into the double standard involved between a white and black person…
