Fairness Doctrine Loses Big in the House, Media Mum

If the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reinstate the controversial Fairness Doctrine which has not been in force since the ’80s, do you think it would have been headline news?Well, on Thursday, an amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations bill prohibiting funds to be used to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters passed in an extraordinary show of…
Noel Sheppard
 

Wandering Around the Spin Room

As I mentioned earlier, I was covering the Democrats' presidential debate this week. After it ended, I took off to "spin alley" where the various candidates had little areas underneath those vertical political convention signs, intent on seeing if I could find (or make) something interesting. The three top candidates did not show, although Clinton and Obama managed to get pretty good crowds…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Media Promote Al Qaeda Propaganda, Spinning Fake Beheading Story

Remember when you were a kid and got caught telling a lie, but your excuse was that a pal "made you do it" and it was so hard to tell the truth anyway because of this reason or that? It didn't matter to your parents then, did it? Well, here we have Reuters revealing that they fell for a false story about 20 beheaded Iraqis that was planted by insurgents, but do they just admit it and take…
Warner Todd Huston
 

PBS’s Moyers Disgracefully Rips Fox Owner Rupert Murdoch

I’m not sure what derangement syndrome Bill Moyers is currently suffering from, but on Friday’s “Bill Moyers Journal” broadcast on PBS, the outspoken host went into an invective-filled tirade about media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that frankly was one of the most disgraceful exhibitions of liberal bias so far this year.In his closing monologue, Moyers compared Murdoch to the Marquis de Sade, Imelda…
Noel Sheppard
 

Bozell Column: Grand, Old, And Pitiful

Brent Bozell
 

Open Thread

Happy Saturday.
NB Staff
 

Dreamin' of a Coup d'Etat? McClatchy Reporter Questions Bush's 'Hold

Is Ron Hutcheson, White House correspondent of the McClatchy Newspapers, dreaming of a coup d'etat? You'd almost think so, judging by the opening line in the litany of gloom that is his article of yesterday, entitled Another Setback for Bush.Writes Hutcheson:The Senate's rejection Thursday of President Bush's immigration plan was the latest in a series of embarrassments that have exposed Bush's…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Olbermann Blog Falsely Asserts Supreme Court Overturned Brown v. Board

The following was written for NewsBusters by Jason Aslinger, a private practice attorney from Greenville, Ohio. Portions in bold below reflect the editor's emphasis.The media’s contempt for the conservative U.S. Supreme Court reached new lows this week when it used a dishonest play on words to imply that the Court was against racial diversity in public schools.That distortion, however, paled in…
Ken Shepherd
 

As Amnesty Bills Fails, MSM Gives Us Tales of 'Immigrant Worker' Woes

Warner Todd Huston
 

Media Ignored Invention That Changes Plastic Bottles Into Oil

Update below with video:  Alert Al Gore and Hillary Clinton! Capitalism has answered the call for better recycling methods, but you probably haven't heard about it. A US company, Global Resource Corporation (GRC), invented a revolutionary high-frequency microwave which recycles anything with a hydrocarbon base like plastic, rubber or automobile "scrap" into 20% diesel oil and 80% combustible gas…
Lynn Davidson
 

I'm Going with the Gut on London Bombings

Ken Shepherd
 

Eagles Flourishing, But NBC Worries about Decline

Julia A. Seymour
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original caption: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and his wife Elizabeth appear on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" with host Jay Leno (R) during a taping of the show at NBC Studios in Burbank, California, June 25. 2007.
NB Staff
 

C'mon, Roseanne, You're Just Trying Too Hard Now

Ken Shepherd