Time’s Jeff Israely Asks ‘Will The Pope Behave in Austria

Matthew Balan
 

Weekend Captionfest

NB Staff
 

Report Showing Positive Business Signs in the Katrina Zone Sinks Below

Bill Hobbs
 

Hartford Courant: Fred Thompson a 'Standard-issue, Southern-fried Cons

Pam Meister
 

CBS Blogger: Stop Whining About Bias, Check Out the Other Side First

CBS Public Eye blogger Matthew Felling has a message for those of us who complain about media bias. Don't expect the media to pursue balance. In fact, it's YOU who should balance your news diet, with slanted reporting from the opposing side of the political spectrum. Insisted Felling, "It’s one thing for an ideologue to cry bias over this story or another, but it’s far more productive to offer a…
Ken Shepherd
 

Media Still Not Interested In Hsu Money

Richard Newcomb
 

Fox News Picks up Newsbusters' G.I.Joe Story

On Thursday morning I got a phone call from Catherine Donaldson-Evans, a staff writer/reporter for Fox News, about our Newsbusters piece titled "Hollywood: G.I. Joe no Longer American Soldier But an 'International' Operative?" She saw our report and it struck the interest of Fox News to the point that she wanted some further reaction from me on the subject for a piece she was writing. After a…
Warner Todd Huston
 

NYT Asks: Where Are All the Gay Superheroes

Clay Waters
 

Open Thread

Possible discussion point: Who's going to win the U.S. Open Saturday and Sunday?
NB Staff
 

Liberal Talk Radio Host Ed Schultz Has Rashomon Bar Feud

P.J. Gladnick
 

Ann Curry's Snide Little Shot on Iraq

"Today" newsreader Ann Curry managed to work a snide and not-so-subtle shot at President Bush into her news recap this morning.ANN CURRY: The U.S. military is reporting that seven U.S. troops were killed on Thursday, four Marines in fighting in Anbar Province, where President Bush hailed gains in security this week, and three soldiers who died in a roadside bombing in northern Iraq. Their deaths…
Mark Finkelstein
 

'Morning Joe' Peeps Perplexed OBL Pop-Ups Help GOP

Darn it, when will Osama Bin Laden's jack-in-the-box moments start hurting Republicans, as they should? That was the prevailing sentiment on today's "Morning Joe." At 6:40 a.m. EDT, reacting to the news that OBL is planning to release a new video to mark the sixth anniversary of 9-11, Host Joe Scarborough expressed his perplexity to NBC News political director Chuck Todd.JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hey…
Mark Finkelstein
 

RealtyTrac Says Media Misrepresent Data

Company responds to criticism of foreclosure data and defends analysis.
Jeff Poor
 

More Media Mentions of GOP Senator's Sex Scandal Than Dems Criminal Fu

Many of us here, of course, take it for granted that the news media focuses far more on any scandals or troubles that occur with Republicans while at the same time they try their level best to ignore those that are perpetrated by Democrats. Sometimes that claim is open to interpretation, sometimes it seems too obvious to doubt, but that the media favors the Dems seems beyond doubt. The MRC…
Warner Todd Huston