Terry Moran: Freedom Makes Men Terrorists

The day after Independence Day, ABC reporter Terry Moran jotted down his thoughts on what makes some people become terrorists. His answer: freedom.Rather than explore religious fanaticism or just plain depraved human wickedness, Moran insisted in a July 5 blog posting that modernity and the freedom of association it fosters is causing many a young Muslim male to descend into the hellish depths of…
Ken Shepherd

NBC to Cut Fred Thompson from ‘Law and Order’ Reruns

Without much fanfare, NBC made an interesting announcement Tuesday: if Fred Thompson becomes a presidential candidate, his episodes of "Law and Order" will no longer be rerun. As reported by the New York Daily News Wednesday (emphasis added throughout): "If Fred Thompson formally declares his intention to run for President, NBC will not schedule any further repeats of 'Law & Order'…
Noel Sheppard

Sun-Times Writer 'Harassed by Irate Republicans' Over 'Staunch Republi

Jennifer Hunter, the Chicago Sun-Times writer and wife of Sun-Times publisher John Cruickshank, who wrote the recent story skewered here on Newsbusters revealing a supposed "staunch Republican" from Philly who has suddenly decided to support the Democrats in 2008, has written a new piece today claiming she is being "harassed by a group of irate Republicans" because of her badly researched column…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

If it's Thursday, it must be NewsBusters...
NB Staff

Rather: 'I'm Big on Personal Responsibility

Say what you will of Dan Rather, but don't deny he's got a great sense of humor . . .Most of Rather's pontifications on today's "Morning Joe" rolled off my back, as I flipped between his performance and that of Tiger Woods over the closing holes at Carnoustie.But something made me sit up and take notice. At 8:34 A.M. EDT, Rather suddenly blurted out: "I'm big on personal responsibility." And yes…
Mark Finkelstein

The Kennedys and Their Magical Common-Man Friends

Kennedy family folklore? The Kennedy political dynasty has certainly been blessed with blue-collar friends awaiting them at the start of their political careers. There never seems to be a shortage of horny-handed sons of toil to assure fledgling Kennedys that being rich is no impediment to being a friend of the working man. In the course of Times reporter Robin Toner's web-only column absolving…
Clay Waters

Bush Terrorism Adviser Grilled on 'So-Called War on Terror,' Bush's 'S

White House homeland security advisor Fran Townsend made the rounds of the TV morning shows on Wednesday – except for NBC, which was too busy chronicling the Senate Democrat stunt on Iraq. ABC’s Diane Sawyer pounded Townsend with criticism from former Clinton adviser Dick Clarke and a quip from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that Bush created a "spa" for Osama bin Laden. CNN’s Kiran Chetry…
Tim Graham

ABC Blotter Report Conflates Illegal Alien Smuggling with Iraqi Refuge

Terry Trippany

NYT Still Smarting Over Second Amendment's Victory

It amuses and gratifies a supporter of the Second Amendment to see the New York Times, the so-called "paper of record," so constantly reduced to sputtering fools over their constant loss in the battle for draconian gun control measures, and the July 17th editorial from the Times is yet another example of how they just don't understand why the average American would pressure their Congressional…
Warner Todd Huston

Media Let Parents Off the Hook on Childhood Obesity

Are Shrek, Sponge Bob, sugary cereal and pleading children really impossible to resist?
David Niedrauer

NBC Justifying Vandalism

A report on the destruction of a Hummer by radical environmentalists takes a distressingly green turn.
Kristen Fyfe

Dow Nears 14,000, One Media Outlet Cares

Julia A. Seymour

CBS Selectively Frames Senate Vote, Ignoring How Most of Public Suppor

The CBS Evening News led Wednesday night by framing the failed Senate vote, on setting a timetable to start withdrawing troops from Iraq within 120 days, as evidence of how out of step the Senators are with the American public, while just as Katie Couric did in February, CBS ignored how a piddling 8 percent favor the left-wing activist position of blocking all funding. Citing the measure which…
Brent Baker

'Good Morning America' Attacks Murdoch: The Man with 'Everything

Dan Gainor