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What Time of Year Is It, Hillary? No C-Word Present in Her 'Presents
I've noted previously that Old Media has developed a squeamishness towards describing this time of year in business stories as the "Christmas shopping season." In the midst of media criticism of Mike Huckabee's Christmas ad, including the Whoopi Goldberg-Joy Behar exchange on "The View" noted earlier today by NewsBusters' Justin McCarthy, how interesting it is that one of Hillary Clinton's latest…
Huckabee Iowa Manager: 'War on Terror a Theological War
Mike Huckabee might want to "revise and extend" the remarks of his Iowa campaign manager. Appearing on this evening's Tucker on MSNBC, Bob Vander Plaats stated that "we're fighting a radical religion in Islam" and that "the war on terror is a theological war."View video here.
Hillary's 'Harsher' Media? The Quick Critique
Howard Kurtz wrote a whole story Wednesday entertaining as a serious idea -- without any conservative rebuttal or extended break for belly laughs -- that Hillary Clinton suffers from a "harsher microscope" from the national media. It might be arguable that Barack Obama has received even better coverage lately, but it's like arguing that your little brother got a bigger stick of cotton candy than…
Evening Newscasts Not Sure Energy Bill is Enough
ABC's Gibson wonders if epic energy bill will go far enough in regulating Americans' energy use; NBC relies on one-sided experts to praise it.
Satire: Gore Sues Time for ‘Person of the Year’ Recount
In a stunning announcement Wednesday, Time magazine has named Russian President Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year for 2007. Obviously, this must have come as a great shock to Nobel Laureate Al Gore who was the odds on favorite to win another dubious honor for becoming a multi-millionaire selling the gullible on the manmade global warming myth. With that in mind, Pat Sajak penned the…
CBS: Hillary’s Mom is ‘Secret Weapon,’ Plays on ‘Primal Fear
On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith played a clip of a recent Hillary Clinton campaign ad featuring her mother and asked Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield: "Is Hillary's mom the real secret weapon in the campaign?" Greenfield responded by describing the ad’s brilliance:I very rarely look at ads these days and one line just jumps out at me. Hillary's mom lives with her, not…
'Cramer Claus:' Bernanke Gets a Lump of 'High-Sulfur Stinky Coal
CNBC host offers disapproval of Fed chief, six weeks after making incorrect prediction about oil and gas prices.
Dishonest Reporter 2007 Awards
Media watchdog website Honest Reporting has awarded their annual Dishonest Reporter Awards. Some of these stories you know and some you don't--probably because they were ignored by the media. Some were even covered here at NewsBusters. The "winners" included Christiane Amanpour for “God's Warriors,” the BBC for covering up an internal investigation into its Mid East reporting, US government…
Time's Two Conservative Columnists Shown the Door
Time magazine has terminated its relationships with its two conservative columnists, Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol. The New York Observer has the details: The exact reasons for the departures of Mr. Krauthammer and Mr. Kristol, both high-profile backers of the Iraq war, are not entirely clear. “I was very happy to work with them,” said Mr. Krauthammer on the phone from his Washington…
This Christmas -- the Gift of Balanced Reporting
Sometimes the media get the story right. BMI highlights the 'good' news from 2007.