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ABC continues to make case for public-controlled health care, this time by bashing private Medicare plans and scaring seniors.

As NewsBusters reported Thursday, over 400 scientists in 2007 "voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called ‘consensus' on man-made global warming." Predictably, Nobel Laureate Al Gore dismissed this historic Senate report by stating through a representative that some of these esteemed scientists from around the world have connections to Big Oil, and, therefore, their…

It's Friday which means another episode of our twice-weekly comedy show "NewsBusted" has arrived! Topics in this show: the media on Iraq, Valerie Plame, and Britney Spears as the Bible's Mary?Click the "Play" icon in the video to the right to watch. If you like the show, please subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new webcasts. Subscribing also allows…

Since the stock and credit market turbulence began in July, NewsBusters has been informing readers that media continually predict recessions that never happen.On the sad flipside, bearishness in the press can become so pervasive that an economic downturn ends up being an unfortunate self-fulfilling prophecy.NewsBusters affiliate the Business and Media Institute made this very point in a late-…

Methinks This Is No CoincidenceOn the cover of the latest edition of that 1930s paleoconservative throw back publication, the American Conservative, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is drawn in "9-11" garb that is starkly reminiscent of an SS uniform circa Nazi Germany.This missive is not an analysis exercise of the accompanying article. There are Conservative differences aplenty…

Commerce Dept. confirms last month's 4.9 percent growth forecast, but media make their own forecast.

The improving situation in Iraq is driving certain congressmen and congresswomen to rhetorical depths I don't recall ever seeing. Though there have almost surely been other instances of offensive excess on the House Floor over the Iraq War, we've recently been treated to at least the following: Pete Stark (D-CA), October -- "You don't have money to fund the war or children,'' Stark said. "But you…

When David Gregory grilled Hillary Clinton on Today on December 17th, the challenges to her came from his own mouth. Not once was a statement by Barack Obama used to confront Clinton. But when Barack Obama made back-to-back appearances this morning on Today and Morning Joe, again and again tough questions were posed not in the first person but as coming from Hillary Clinton or her surrogates.View…

NBC's story slants to the left, but at least they covered the War on Christmas.

NBC's story slants to the left, but at least they covered the War on Christmas.

If it wasn't so commercially calculated, it might sound like Tourette 's syndrome.