Ex-CNNer Resigns From US-Funded Al Hurrah Over Charges of Anti-Israel
June 12th, 2007 5:46 PM
Update Below:Fox News and Variety have reported that Larry Register, former longtime CNN producer, resigned Friday from Al Hurrah, which is a US government-funded TV station in the Mid-East that is supposed to be a type of Mid-East Voice of America combating the pervasive anti-US and anti-Israel rhetoric in on TV stations like Al Jazeera. As I noted here at NewsBusters in March, “within weeks”…
CNN Reporter Admits Paying to Stage Story, Capping Nearly a Decade of
June 12th, 2007 10:11 AM
So, what is CNN?
THIS is CNN in 1998; the link is to a story debunking the network's Peter Arnett and April Oliver, who accused Vietnam soldiers of war crimes in Operation Tailwind.
This is from 2003. The network's Eason Jordan confessed that the network twisted the news out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, thereby giving false impressions of the regime to the world so that it could maintain its access…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: June 2 to
June 9th, 2007 7:38 AM
"What Isn’t His Fault?"On Wednesday’s "Situation Room," liberal anchor Jack Cafferty argued that, perhaps, it's President Bush, not Vladimir Putin, who is attempting to reignite the Cold War. However, Cafferty might want to consider the fact that fewer pesky journalists seem to mysteriously disappear in the United States than they do in Russia. A Left Wing GOP? That’s the Ticket to Success!…
CNN's Paula Zahn Cites NewsBusters' Brent Baker
June 7th, 2007 4:05 PM
MRC intern Michael Lanza caught a passing reference on the June 6 "Paula Zahn Now" to a June 5 blog entry by NB editor Brent Baker. (See transcript below the fold)Video (0:35): Real (1.57 MB) or Windows (1.10 MB), plus MP3 (156 kB).In "NBC's Williams Showcases Obama Blaming Bush for Black Despair Going Back to 1991," Baker noted that NBC's June 5 "Nightly News" ran excerpts of an Obama speech…
NYT Answers Questions Concerning Placing JFK Terror Plot Story Off Fro
June 6th, 2007 12:18 PM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, although a terrorist plot to destroy the leading airport in the region was thwarted, the leading newspaper in the area, the New York Times, chose to place the article about the incident off of the paper’s front page Sunday.This has created a bit of a backlash around the nation, and from readers who sent questions to the Times’ national editor Suzanne Daley about…
Forget Fox, CNN Manipulated Dem Debate
June 5th, 2007 11:38 AM
Earlier this year, Democrats caved in to their left wing by canceling a debate hosted by FNC on the grounds that Fox wouldn't provide a fair forum for their presidential aspirants. Never mind that in 2003, the Dems eagerly and without complaint participated in a FNC-sponsored debate, the last CNN-sponsored debate had the network pulling far more strings than it should have, skewing the process…
