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NB Staff

McCain Camp Using Times Attack to Raise Funds

Having failed to stop the paper from running its poorly sourced attack on him, the McCain campaign is now hitting back by counterattacking in a fundraising appeal to donors to help "fight back" the New York Times.This is, as AllahPundit notes, a very audacious move considering that McCain spent the better part of the last 10 years or so trying to curry favor with the Times. Has McCain learned his…
Matthew Sheffield

Obama: Xerox. Hillary: Memorex

It's not a very long run. It'll be over by February 5th. -- Hillary Clinton, 'This Week,' Dec. 30, 2007.That was Hillary less than two months ago. Here she was on this morning's Today.MEREDITH VIEIRA: So no matter what happens in Texas and Ohio, you will go on.HILLARY CLINTON: Well Meredith, I don't make predictions. I never have, I never will. I just get up every day and, you know, do the…
Mark Finkelstein

Thursday AM Shows Saw Crisis for McCain, Not the NY Times

Tim Graham

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode (filmed before McCain news): Barack Obama hires an old JFK speechwriter, Hillary Clinton campaign hits financial trouble, U.S. Latino population expected to triple by 2050, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg says "threat" of global warming just as bad as terrorism, and a musical version of "Fight Club?"Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, subscribe…
Matthew Sheffield

Nets Lead w/ NYT Hit on McCain, But Question Journalistic Standards

All three broadcast network evening newscasts led Thursday night with the New York Times story alleging an improper relationship by John McCain with a female lobbyist, but questions about the journalistic standards of the newspaper were given as much consideration as the allegations against McCain. All three ran a soundbite from Rush Limbaugh denouncing the paper while ABC and CBS featured…
Brent Baker

Doves vs. Oscars

What do the Academy Awards -- and mainstream media movie critics -- have against family-friendly films?
L. Brent Bozell III

It's Sweeps Week -- ABC News to Focus on Sex Tonight

For 20/20 it's infidelity, for Nightline it's the merits of porn.
Kristen Fyfe

CBS Evening News Acknowledges that Premature Babies Feel Pain

The network leaves one question unanswered: why do some physicians still say infants don't feel pain?
Colleen Raezler

FCC Complaint Filed Against NBC's Las Vegas

Show aired one day after Jane Fonda dropped the c-word on NBC's Today.
Kristen Fyfe

NYT to McCain: Shut Up and Let Us Destroy You

From Elisabeth Bumiller's New York Times follow-up article of today [emphasis added]:Later in the day, one of Mr. McCain’s senior advisers directed strong criticism at The Times in what appeared to be a deliberate campaign strategy to wage a war with the newspaper. Mr. McCain is deeply distrusted by conservatives on several issues, not least because of his rapport with the news media, but he…
Mark Finkelstein

AP Lumps McCain's Wife With Wives of Serial Cheaters

Guilt by association, that's the trick that the AP just pulled on the wife of GOP presidential candidate John McCain. In a story about the non-story du jour, AP writer Libby Quaid has placed Cindy McCain in with jilted political wives of the likes of Hillary Clinton, Suzanne Craig, Dina McGreevey, and Carlita Kilpatrick. They even reached back into the graveyard of political careers and dug up…
Warner Todd Huston

Hillary's Last Stand

The remaining Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are squaring off for what may be their final battle in Texas. The two will be debating tonight at 8:00pm Eastern. The debate will be carried on both CNN and Univision. Join your fellow NBers either here on this thread or in the live chat and share your comments about the event. Web video for the television…
NB Staff

AP Writer Cites ‘Groundswell of Public Criticism’ — In Communist

Associated Press writer Tini Tran, in covering the fallout inside Mainland/Communist China from Steven Spielberg's decision to resign from his position as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics over that country's involvement in Darfur, introduced the critical reaction to his decision as a "groundswell" rising up from the public. But the detail presented indicates that the reaction came from…
Tom Blumer