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Looks like the folks at the much maligned CNN indulged in a little bit of wishful thinking on Friday during a report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's resignation announcement. In a video caption of Blair, CNN plastered the words "Bush Resigns" across the screen. Media Bistro got the first capture of this absurdly Freudian slip. "CNN International's CNN Today program, airing at midnight…

The mainstream media’s promotion of climate change hype continues unfettered. A segment on Thursday’s "The Situation Room" wholeheartedly embraced the theory of human-caused global warming, and the International Panel on Climate Change’s recent "action plan" to do something about it.Video (1:27): Real (2.37 MB) or Windows (2.79 MB), plus MP3 (996 kB).During his actual report, CNN correspondent…

  The big story of the week has been "Mullah Mouse," the hate-spewing Palestinian children's character whose show on Hamas television encouraged kids to kill non-Muslims to help establish world Islamic domination.You would think that CNN would have wanted to get in on some of that news. It's controversial. The visuals are great and it's eminently topical.The network did finally cover the…

Apparently, CNN can't get enough of Kathleen Sebelius, the Democrat governor of Kansas. She made two appearances on CNN on Monday, once on "American Morning," and the other time on "The Situation Room." Both times, she tried to blame the Iraq war for any hampered reactions to the devastation caused by a tornado in Greensburg, Kansas. The same evening, the "Paula Zahn Now" program featured…

Are the media intentionally downplaying or ignoring reports that indicate a growing al Qaeda involvement in Iraq? Late Thursday evening, CNN.com reported (h/t LGF, emphasis added): American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday.”This was a compilation of a report that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer did…

If a high-ranking member of the Taliban told Al-Jazeera that the recent attempted assassination of Vice President Dick Cheney was devised by Osama bin Laden, would you expect the media to report it?In reality, after this interview, the claim was largely discredited. However, one has to wonder why Mullah Dadullah’s (the believed leader of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan) statement made last…

Over the weekend, blogger Jim Hanson (aka "Uncle Jimbo" at Blackfive) appeared on CNN's "This Week at War" where he asked about how the U.S. military was going to improve its response to the pretty sophisticated usage of the media that Islamic terrorists have begun to develop.Of course, the fact that the terrorists have gotten good at using the media isn't simply a deficiency of the Pentagon. It…