Why Does Cable News Need Freshness Labels

Matthew Sheffield

Shocking LA Times Editorial: Fairness Doctrine Limits Free Speech

As most media have unsurprisingly cheered the Democrats' recent moves to either bring back the Fairness Doctrine, or prevent its prohibition, the Los Angeles Times has presented itself as a beacon of sanity in the midst of a clear lack thereof. In fact, instead of the prevalent, pointless, press pontifications about equal opportunity on the airwaves, and ensuring the public hears both sides of…
Noel Sheppard

Time's Klein Asks Wrong Question About YouTube Debate

Over at Time's "Swampland" blog yesterday, journalist Joe Klein all but suggested the GOP candidates might be hoping to chicken out of the upcoming YouTube debate on September 17, given the leftward slant of the YouTube questions.Given the generally irreverent and, well, liberal tone of the questions last night--and the general skew of the YouTube audience leeward, do you think it's possible that…
Ken Shepherd

2007 Hurricane Forecast Reduced, Will Media Care

In May, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted an above average hurricane season, the media reported the announcement with a vigor. Two months later, with no serious hurricanes yet hitting the mainland, a private forecaster has reduced its tropical storm expectations. Less hurricanes should be good news, especially for folks along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, right…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

Wonderful Wednesday...
NB Staff

NYT: John Edwards Iowa Event 'Picturesquely American -- Democracy in A

Clay Waters

CNN's Velshi: 'We've been underpaying minimum wage earners for too lon

'American Morning' business reporter gets math right, but goes left with his politics.
Jeff Poor

NY Daily News Misleads About Bush Linking Iraq and

The New York Daily News perpetrated an interesting, yet subtly misleading headline about president Bush's Charleston, South Carolina speech on Al Qaeda in Iraq today in theirs titled "W still ties Iraq, 9/11." Following the left's playbook of claiming Bush has illicitly linked Saddam's Iraq to 9/11 their headline made it seem as if Bush, indeed, "still ties" 9/11 to Iraq. It is, of course, a…
Warner Todd Huston

Home Protection, MSM Style: Killer Cacti But No Guns

No guns please, we're liberals . . . As soon as "Good Morning America" began to tease an upcoming how-to segment today on protecting against home invasion, I immediately suspected the show wouldn't discuss one obvious measure: obtaining fireams and learning to use them. And sure enough . . . GMA ran the segment in the wake of the horrific home-invasion in Connecticut in which the the wife and…
Mark Finkelstein

Time's Deep Bow to Islam: Hailing the Head-to-Toe 'Burqini' Swimsuit a

It’s amazing how supposedly liberal and feminist publications that enjoy roasting conservative Christians will turn around and honor Islamic traditions as the latest rage. Witness Time’s promotional coverage this week of the "Burqini," the head-to-toe women’s swimsuit. If this was a Pat Robertson idea, they’d be bowled over laughing. But it’s Islamic, so it’s surprisingly chic. The front page of…
Tim Graham

AP: Sells Moore's/Cuba's Propaganda, 8 Americans Graduate from Cuban M

The AP did a fine job for Cuba's ministry of propaganda the other day by highlighting the 8 Americans who broke U.S. law and traveled to Cuba to attend a medical school, free of charge to the students. Castro offered this free medical training as a propaganda tool to create good PR for his oppressive regime and the AP is more than willing to help him advertise it. In the same story, they also…
Warner Todd Huston

CBS's Pitts Slants Philadelphia Murder Story to the Left

Brad Wilmouth

Big Media Ignores Pew Poll's Good News in War on Terror

Support for bin Laden and suicide bombings is waning in the Muslim world, but the mainstream media fail to tell the story.
Colleen Raezler

CBS Ambushes the Second Amendment

Network calls for more gun control and federal spending, but not moral reform, to curb inner city violence.
David Niedrauer