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Limbaugh to Read NB Item on Tribune's New Spin on Minnesota Bridge
Radio host Rush Limbaugh will be addressing this blog post in his 2 p.m. monologue.
New Republic Refuses to Retract Beauchamp 'Reports
Despite the fact that the Army has officially denied the veracity of Scott Thomas Beauchamp's "reports" from Iraq, the New Republic continues to stand by its fabricating writer In the New York Times this morning: In an e-mail message, Mr. Foer said, "Thus far, we've been provided no evidence that contradicts our original statement, despite directly asking the military for any such evidence it…
Meet Your News Providers [UPDATED 4/3/2008: Charges Dropped Against Co
Update (April 3, 2008) at bottom of post: Charges dropped against Corral. Statement appended.I'd like to take a break from our usual program of pointing out the absurdity of liberal bias in the press to let you get to know some of the people who provide the news for public consumption. First up is C.P. Smith (pictured), page-one editor for The Orange County Register and husband of LA Times deputy…
'World News' Criticizes 'Dirty' Coal Industry During Search for Trappe
One guest, a left-wing writer, compares environmental advances in coal-burning technology to 'fat-free doughnuts.'
Networks Use Bridge Tragedy to Build Support for Higher Taxes
Journalists blame taxpayers, not government incompetence, for infrastructure problems.
Are Gore and Newsweek’s Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Accusations Coo
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Shortly after this new issue hit the stands, Al Gore told a…
Facebook Feature Plagued With Outdated Headlines; GOP Ones Skew Negati
While looking at a friend's profile on Facebook today shortly after 10 a.m., I spotted her "Election '08" application which proudly lists her support for the Republican Party in 2008. Immediately below are three of the "latest politics headlines" on Newsvine.com, the Web site that created and manages the Facebook application. Yet the headlines were hardly the "latest" and had nothing to do with…
Open Thread
Possible discussion point: How's "global warming" impacting your summer?This has been possibly the coolest summer in Northern California in at least 20 years. The weather in Texas has been so cold that the cotton crop is in danger. England hasn't even had a summer yet, and meteorologists there are predicting a very early start to fall. Parts of the southern hemisphere are experiencing the…
Bill Clinton: Wall Street Journal Editorials Even More 'Irrational' Th
While Hillary Clinton was assuring the union crowd last night that she knows how to battle the "right-wing machine," Huffington Post blogger Blake Fleetwood reports that Bill Clinton is still taking on the Clinton-challenging media machine. At a fundraiser closed to reporters (but not to bloggers?), the former president asserted "the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is even more right…