NewsBusted

We have now officially passed a milestone: fifty episodes of "NewsBusted." Thanks to everyone for watching, spreading the word, and helping us take the truth about media bias to a larger audience!Topics in today's episode: Thirteen percent of Americans incorrectly think Barack Obama is a Muslim, should harming the environment be a sin? A study claims 1-in-4 teenage girls has an STD, and new TV…
Matthew Sheffield

CBS Castigates McCain Staffer for Accurate Obama/Wright Video

“The McCain campaign suspends a staffer for circulating an inflammatory video about Barack Obama,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric intoned as “Campaign Controversy” was plastered on screen over a YouTube video which simply intersperses clips of Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright. Managing to twist Obama into a victim, a task made easier by the feckless McCain campaign, Couric set up a Thursday…
Brent Baker

Readers Cite LAT For Anti-Catholicism - Again

Anti-Catholicism still thrives at the Los Angeles Times, even though readers of the paper continue to call them on it. Last week, the Times published a smarmy op-ed by "humor" writer Barry Gottlieb ("That 'thou shalt not' list just got longer," 3/17/08). In addition to propagating the false story that the Vatican had composed a list of "new sins" (it didn't), Gottlieb mocked Catholic belief,…
Dave Pierre

FaithShatters: ABC Takes an Ill-Informed Whack at Creationists

During Holy Week, the Nightline series FaithMatters ridicules Biblical literalists.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Beyond Bunnies and Jelly Bellies: USA Today Explores True Meaning of E

Article challenges popular definition of sin and allows Christians to cite the correct definition.
Colleen Raezler

Does Profanity Reign Supreme

What Hollywood really wants – and in a cowardly way, is refusing to declare publicly – is the right to bombard your living room, and your children, with obscenities.
L. Brent Bozell III

Obama Speech Causes Mass Weeping Epidemic in Leftwing Blogosphere

P.J. Gladnick

Righty Female Bloggers Are Targeted By Liberals

The left and the media love to hyperventilate about the right wing “hate speech” on the Internet, but the anger and vitriol of the left dwarfs that of the right, especially where female or minority bloggers are concerned. Hateful comments are not uncommon at lefty blogs like Daily Kos. That kind of hostility forces the Huffington Post to occassionally close comments on articles involving certain…
Lynn Davidson

NCAA Tournament Open Thread

Let's talk some college basketball (full brackets after the jump):
NB Staff

All 3 Network Newscasts Recognize Anti-War Protests on War Anniversary

The "Big Three" networks’ evening newscasts, marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq on Wednesday evening, all chose to air news briefs on the anti-war protests across the United States. The news briefs all aired within the first ten minutes of each program. CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, as part of the first report on her program, used the protests as "evidence" of…
Matthew Balan

CNN Reports Oil and Gas Price Fears, Ignores Market Dynamics

'American Morning's' Velshi cites poll of consumer worries but fails to report variables that have led to the rise and recent fall of oil prices.
Jeff Poor

Obama: Grandma 'Typical White Person' Fearing Everyone She Doesn't Kno

It seems the more Barack Obama tries to explain the peculiar statement he made Tuesday concerning his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street," the more he's assuring attention regarding the matter.Though it remains to be seen how much focus a media clearly looking to move beyond this subject will devote to it, Obama called into a Philadelphia sports radio station…
Noel Sheppard

Moving on from Obama's Pastor, NBC Focuses on McCain 'Mistake

A day after Barack Obama's speech in reaction to the bigoted and hateful rants of his long-time pastor, the network evening newscasts moved on -- with only ABC briefly mentioning the topic -- while NBC Nightly News, which has run just one clip of Jeremiah Wright and on Friday had instead featured a whole story about Obama's childhood friends cheering him on, centered a Wednesday night story…
Brent Baker

MSNBC.com Pumps Up Bias, Shows Gas Price 21 Percent Above Average

It's a common trick the media employ when reporting on "skyrocketing" gas price stories: show photos or B-roll of price marquees that bear prices way above the actual average price.MSNBC.com's front page this morning is no exception, as the screen cap at right shows regular unleaded for $3.979, or 21 percent higher than the national average of $3.27.The article's headline reads, "Rising gas costs…
Ken Shepherd