Will 'Superb' Al Gore Win Time's Person of the Year

Time magazine's managing editor hinted on Monday's "Today" show that Al Gore would be a "superb choice" for recipient of the publication's 2007 Person of the Year award. Richard Stengel agreed with co-host Meredith Vieira that the former vice president was on the "short list" and extolled, "He's had an extraordinary year. He's had an extraordinary influence. There was a real tipping point this…
Scott Whitlock

$15M Anchor Asks if A-Rod's Worth $28 Million

'60 Minutes'' Couric wonders if fans can trust the market of Major League Baseball to compensate its players fairly.
Nathan Burchfiel

Two Morning Shows, Same Lame Question to Clinton

Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" at 7:25 a.m. to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.): "Senator, we've been talking about this all morning. Mitt Romney teared up on 'Meet the Press' over the weekend. I don't know if you saw it, what you thought of it. Do you ever tear up? When was the last time?"Kiran Chetry, co-anchor of CNN's "American Morning" at 7:36 a.m.: "We saw Mitt Romney tear up on one…
Ken Shepherd

ABC's Kate Snow: Lieberman a 'Conservative Democrat

Justin McCarthy

Gregory Grilling Gets to Hillary: 'No, Wait a Minute

Is the MSM turning on Hillary?Clinton began her Today interview with David Gregory with the radiant smile on display here. But it wasn't long before an irate Hillary was demanding "no, wait a minute" when things didn't go to her liking.That's what a few minutes of serious Gregory grilling did to Clinton this morning. It was by far the most intense -- dare-I-say aggressive -- examination of…
Mark Finkelstein

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NB Staff

Congrats NewsBusters

Well, the results are in for the 6th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards and NewsBusters did quite well this year! Here is where Newsbusters placed and in what categories: Best Original Reporting By A Blog 4) NewsBusters
Warner Todd Huston

Washington Post 'Wisdom'? Jesus Was A Marxist

Tim Graham

Media Fans Flames of GOP Religious Divide

In an article that is ostensibly supposed to be about the many Iowa homeschoolers that are supporting Mike Huckabee, the Washington Post pins the reason to the fact that homeschooling parents must hate Mormons! This has easily become the MSM's favorite theme as they try to divide and anger portions of the GOP primary voting base against each other. In this MSM meme, anyone who votes against…
Warner Todd Huston

Stephanopoulos Pushes Greenspan to Agree Taxes Should Be Raised

On Sunday's This Week, ABC's George Stephanopoulos pressed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to agree on the wisdom of raising taxes. Stephanopoulos wondered “what would be wrong with letting the tax cuts for the top one percent expire?” and suggested that to “shore up” Social Security and Medicate that Congress “limit the tax cuts.” Citing a Congressional Budget Office study, “which…
Brent Baker

60 Minutes Salutes Homosexuals in Uniform

CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl devotes 10 minutes in a 12 minute segment to arguments in favor of homosexuals serving openly in the United States military.
Colleen Raezler

Christmas Hero: The Philanthropic Secret Santa

CBS's story is a gift for the season.
Kristen Fyfe

Hillary on Stilts

It's been a rough day for Hillary. First, as noted here, she was drummed from pillar to post on ABC's "This Week." NewsBuster Noel Sheppard then detailed here how Chris Matthews' crew raked her over the coals. Now, completing Hillary's troika of tribulation, the CBS Evening News has gotten into the act.The development being reported was ostensibly positive for Hillary: the Des Moines Register…
Mark Finkelstein

Newspapers Continue Not to Label Democrats Caught In Scandal

A close adviser and chief fundraiser to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was indicted on fraud charges. Yet if you read about the story in the Chicago Tribune, you won't read which party the governor belongs to. That's right. Blagojevich is a Democrat, yet the Trib didn't bother to include this fact in their piece.Meanwhile, Bryan over at Hot Air showed how the Kansas City Star reported the…
Dave Pierre