Media Blame America For China's CO2 Emissions

When it was announced Tuesday that China surpassed the United States as the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, NewsBusters asked, “Will Media Notice?”In reality, the answer is a mixed windbag, with most press outlets totally ignoring the revelation, and a few actually blaming the problem on – wait for it! – the United States. I kid you not.However, before we address that stupidity, it…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chris Matthews Blurts: Send Scooter to Iraq

Geoffrey Dickens
 

CNN Contributor Advises Democratic Presidential Candidates to Emulate

Matthew Balan
 

Michael Medved: Excessive TV Viewing Leads to Liberal Attitudes

Michael Medved, author, film critic, and talk-radio host, argues in one of his latest columns--"Why TV Addiction Links to Liberalism"--that excessive TV viewing may lead some people to embrace "distinctly liberal attitudes on a range of crucial issues, placing them well to the left" of people with lighter TV viewing habits. Medved bases his views on the new study by the MRC's Culture and Media…
Michael Chapman
 

Journalism's Faulty Paradigm

Yesterday, OpinionJournal featured an fantastic essay (found via Ace) from critic James Bowman about the faulty paradigm that modern journalism has embraced, the idea that "getting the facts right" ought to be the foremost goal of government.It's a ridiculous premise, Bowman argues, because that isn't what government is supposed to do. In an imperfect world populated by imperfect humans, mistakes…
Matthew Sheffield
 

'View's' Behar on Bush's Stem Cell Veto: He 'Listens to the Extreme Re

Justin McCarthy
 

In Debate, Matthews Cheers Obama for Sounding Like RFK, ‘The Sixties

Michael Lanza
 

GMA Plumps for More Paid Leave

Mark Finkelstein
 

Group Led By Clinton’s John Podesta Outlines Assault of Conservative

The supposedly “free speech” left are out in force trying to silence all voices in the media with views different than their own just in time for the 2008 presidential campaign.Potentially more worrisome, one liberal advocate in the middle of this debate has close ties to the Clintons, although it is quite unlikely the press will convey such when its recommendations are disseminated with their…
Noel Sheppard
 

Time Writer: I Took My Kid to Anti-Bush Play Date/Fundraiser, So What

Earlier today, NewsBusters contributor Pam Meister picked up on the MSNBC investigation into journalists' political contributions. Nearly 87 percent of the journalists gave exclusively to Democratic candidates.Now some journos are reacting, and it seems the ones at Time magazine don't see the big deal.Aside from Time.com Washington editor Ana Marie Cox's dismissive blog entry entitled, "OMG OMG…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS's Lara Logan Follows Up on U.S. Soldier Orphanage Rescue

Justin McCarthy
 

Meredith Vieira Ponders: 'Would We Be Better Off If Gas Prices Were Ev

Geoffrey Dickens
 

WSJ Buyout Options 'Trash or Slash' According to Times

Julia A. Seymour
 

ABC Derides America: ‘U.S. Doesn't Make it Easy’ For Working Paren

For the third time in 2007, ABC has used its "Good Morning America" program to deride the United States for not being generous enough in providing paid leave for employees. On the Thursday edition of the show, reporter David Wright complained that "the U.S. doesn't make it easy" for working parents. He used a 2007 study to claim that, on this issue, America is no better then several Third World…
Scott Whitlock