ABC Anchor Admits to Being ‘Very Fearful’ About Discussing Her Fai

June 2nd, 2007 3:00 PM

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: May 26 to June

June 2nd, 2007 9:45 AM
"Allow Me to be a Little More Obvious" This is something that must truly be seen to be believed. "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith concluded an interview with former Vice President Al Gore by attempting to pin a Gore ‘08 button on the politician. Why stop there, Harry? Why not slap a bumper sticker across your suit? (Be sure and check out the NB video clip.)"But is He Smart?"Sometimes the media…

B-I-A-S: Media Largely Ignore Spelling Bee Champ's Homeschooled Status

June 1st, 2007 12:35 PM
(14:50 EDT) Video of Tim Russert misspelling "Iraq" at bottom of post.When California homeschooler Evan O’Dorney, 13, won the National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, the nation’s press reacted with a yawn.Instead of focusing on the winner, The New York Times ran a story about an immigrant from India who lost in the second round of the competition. That boy, Kunal Sah, 12, who is living in Utah…

ABC Gives Liberal Group a Platform to Attack ‘Poor Values’ of Wal

May 31st, 2007 5:54 PM

ABC Parrots Dem Talking Point: Will Thompson’s ‘Thin Record’ Hur

May 31st, 2007 1:35 PM

Government Can't Contain One Guy, But MSM Believes It Can Keep Tabs on

May 31st, 2007 8:11 AM

Bozell Column: Al Gore, Media Scholar

May 30th, 2007 12:12 PM

'Was It Fair?' ABC Attempts to Justify Anti-American Booing of Miss US

May 30th, 2007 11:35 AM
Updated with video (14:35 EDT).On Wednesday’s "Good Morning America," the ABC program attempted to justify and explain away the booing that Miss USA, Rachel Smith, received in Mexico City during Monday night’s Miss Universe pageant. In a tease for the segment, GMA anchor Diane Sawyer even wondered aloud, "Was it fair?"Video (1:21): Real (2.19 MB) or Windows Media (2.49 MB), plus MP3 (376 kB)

Sicko: GMA Uses Moore Movie, Liberal Group to Push Universal Health Ca

May 30th, 2007 8:11 AM
Based on its own ABC poll, "Good Morning America" could have run a segment this morning on the theme "support for universal coverage slipping as Americans express increased concern for keeping taxes down." But that wouldn't have fit ABC's big-government paradigm. So instead, GMA used this prescription for pushing universal health care:Cherry-pick results from a poll you've conducted; ignoring…

ABC Investigates Why Rosie ‘Really’ Left ‘The View’; Ignores

May 29th, 2007 11:37 AM
On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," the ABC program promised to investigate the "final straw" that pushed Rosie O’Donnell to leave "The View." Yet, somehow, neither anchor Chris Cuomo, nor reporter John Berman managed to mention the comedienne’s obsessive promotion of bizarre 9/11 conspiracy theories. The segment also sympathetically portrayed O’Donnell. Co-anchor Cuomo even blurted out that…

Hear This, Hillary: Obama 'OK' With Losing, Stresses Health Care

May 29th, 2007 9:14 AM
Is Barack Obama really running for president, or is he not-so-subtly positioning himself to be Hillary's running mate? I seemed to sense that 'subliminable' message on 'Today' this morning. At about 7:10 am EDT, the NBC show kicked off its "Today on the Trail" series, which will join the leading presidential contenders out on the campaign trail, with a feature on Obama. Meredith Vieira spent time…

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: May 19 to

May 26th, 2007 10:30 AM
"Get the Hint? Wink Wink? Nudge Nudge?" Katie Couric may be many things (don’t call her perky), but she’s not subtle. The "CBS Evening News" anchor touted a new special on Walter Cronkite, a journalist who "stood up to the Commander in Chief" during an "unpopular war." "We Can Dream, Can’t We?" Former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now the anchor of ABC’s "This Week," took time out of his…

ABC's Tapper: Gore Implies In Book He Would Have Prevented

May 26th, 2007 7:17 AM
At his blog Political Punch, ABC reporter Jake Tapper has been reading Al Gore's new book The Assault on Reason. He has an online analysis going through the "liberal red meat," and perhaps the knee-slapping funniest line -- coming from a man who stood silently in support of  Bill Clinton every day of his scandalous presidency, except when he was honoring him as "one of our greatest presidents"…

ABC Distressed by "Harmful" Museum that Shows Bible Story of Creation

May 25th, 2007 2:17 PM
While Rosie O’Donnell uses ABC’s own airwaves to spout nonsense about 9/11 conspiracies and Rudy Giuliani supposedly shipping the World Trade Center off to China, ABC News is troubled that the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, tells visitors the Biblical story of God’s creation.“Critics say it is harmful to schoolchildren,” co-host Robin Roberts teased at the top of Friday's Good Morning…