Sloppy CBS Claims Dick Cheney 'Owned' Halliburton Subsidiary

Tim Graham

CBS Finds Unique Culprit in Subprime Hardship Story – Race

Fall behind on your mortgage? These days it's anyone's fault but your own according to the mainstream media. The March 9 "CBS Evening News" found another way to fault home lenders instead of one borrower who took on an ill-planned mortgage that was more than he could pay: the race card. "[Michael] Wiggins, a city bus driver, was one of millions of Americans caught in the subprime mortgage…
Jeff Poor

'Evening News' Plays Race Card on Home Loans

CBS suggests race was a factor in $300 delinquency surcharge in subprime hardship story.
Jeff Poor

Poll: Democrats Trust Media More than Republicans Do

Harris released one of their latest polls on the 6th and it showed that less than half the general American public trusts the press. With the state of the media today, this should come as no surprise to anyone. But, the numbers are pretty amazing when it is realized that 54% of those responding said they did not trust the press while 46% admitted that they don't trust television news either. The…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate.
NB Staff

'Today' Pans Hil's Obama-for-VP Ploy: Ignorant, Arrogant, Illogical, C

If Hillary Clinton's latest gambit--floating Obama as her VP--were a play not a ploy, and the Today crew the theater critics, they would have left at intermission to begin penning a blistering pan.Interviewing Tim Russert, Matt Lauer kicked off the kicking around of Hillary's idea.MATT LAUER: Let's talk about this idea. Is it being floated seriously? Is this light-hearted, and who's behind it?…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Personal Responsibility for Foreclosures

Four months after CMI released a study on debt coverage,only CBS addresses the character question in mortgage crisis stories.
Colleen Raezler

ABC Highlights Gambler Suing Casinos for Enabling Addiction

Good Morning America ditches character, personal responsibility.
Kristen Fyfe

Further Proof NPR Caters to Extreme Left

Jennifer Harper, Washington Times reporter and friend of Newsbusters, gives us a revealing look at how far left our taxpayer funded National Public Radio network has gotten itself these days. Even when they try to go a little toward the conservative side of the debate, they get lambasted by their audience, angered that they had the temerity to air conservative views. Of course, the only reason…
Warner Todd Huston

Hillary's Team Talks Up Electoral College; She Used to Favor Abolishin

Tim Graham

AP's 'Workers Giving Up' Claim Goes from 'Perhaps' to 'Fact

.... and in 24 Hours, with No Credible Support In a report from the presidential campaign trail in Wyoming early Saturday morning, Sara Kugler of the Associated Press picked up on an economic meme created out of whole cloth by one of her colleagues, and treated it as an undisputed fact -- all in the name of creating support for campaign rhetoric coming from one of the two remaining Democratic…
Tom Blumer

Media Matters Book Says 'Free Ride' for McCain: 'Oops, Bad Timing

In Sunday’s Washington Post Book World, senior editor Alan Cooperman reviewed four new political books in brief, including a new book from Media Matters for America titled Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock and Paul Waldman. Cooperman concluded that, oops, the title doesn’t match the rough reporting coming out from newspapers on McCain’s alleged hypocrisy (and adultery?) with…
Tim Graham

AP Implicates Vice President Cheney in Iraq Water Problem

One of the truly disgraceful media fixations since America invaded Iraq five years ago has been to blame all the world's problems on energy contractor Halliburton while making it clear that Vice President Dick Cheney used to be its Chief Executive Officer.Despite it being almost eight years since Cheney resigned his position with the contracting giant and sold all of his stock, Halliburton-…
Noel Sheppard

Oprah Abandoned 'The Hot-Flash Cohort

Look for NOW to be setting up picket lines outside Rush's Southern Command, protesting the way Limbaugh has demeaned mature women, writing them off as the "hot-flash cohort."Outrageous! When will these right-wing men realize we will no longer tolerate their misogynist --What? It wasn't Rush? It was that avatar of elite liberal thought Tina Brown, writing in Newsweek? Never mind.Here's how…
Mark Finkelstein