Rather Attacks Couric: 'Dumb It Down, Tart It Up

As already noted on NewsBusters, former CBS anchor Dan Rather appeared on Monday’s edition of "Morning Joe" and lobbied for a "a strategic withdrawal from Iraq." He also found time to twice bash his "Evening News" successor Katie Couric for dumbing down and tarting up the news. After giving the standard caveat that Couric is a "nice person," he went in for kill. Speculating on the program’s…
Scott Whitlock

Edwards Strategist Not Liberal Enough for Commenters at Time Blog

Time magazine's "Swampland" blog last week gave former Rep. Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) a platform as guest blogger and left-wing readers quickly pounced with all the juvenile invective they could muster. One commenter to Armey's valedictory post wished that Armey would eat sh*t and die, albeit saying so with more flowery language: "May you engage in coprophagy, then shuffle off this…
Ken Shepherd

Dennis Miller Tears Sen. Harry Reid Apart on FNC’s ‘1/2 Hour News

Noel Sheppard

An Odd Way to Attain Peace

Back in January, I reported on a particularly odd funeral over in the Palestinian territories of a 10-year-old girl named Abir Aramin, who was supposedly killed by the Israeli Defence Forces at an "anti-barrier" protest. Figure 1: Bassam Aramin, Jan. 20, 2007. Imagine my surprise, then, to learn from freelance journalist Hélène Keller-Lind over the weekend (en Anglais for we non-Francophiles)…
Brian C. Ledbetter

MRC Study Documents TV's Paltry, Left-Leaning Immigration News

Rich Noyes

Michael Moore's Attorney Says Cuba Investigation Product of Discrimina

Matthew Sheffield

Rather Slams Iraq as ‘Strategic Catastrophe of Historic Proportions

Scott Whitlock

NY Times Editor Questions Timing of Terror Alerts

Clay Waters

NY Times Writer Laments Lack of 'Choice' in 'Knocked Up

Ken Shepherd

Newsweek Portrays Dems as Answer to GOP and Big Government

The May 14 issue of Newsweek proclaimed that some descendants of famous Republicans--Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater--are thinking about changing parties and voting Blue. In an article titled, “Generational Tensions: The sons and daughters of some iconic Republicans (Ike! T.R.!) are contemplating crossing the aisle,” reporter Michael Hirsch set up the improbable idea…
Lynn Davidson

'Today' Whacks Bush with Powell Charges

Geoffrey Dickens

Philadelphia: City of Sisterly Termination

Tim Graham

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NB Staff

In '99 When Clinton Was Hailed for Kosovo, NBC Didn't Find 'Over the T

Tim Graham