CBS’s ‘Early Show’ Links Foreclosures to West Nile Virus
How do you make the foreclosure crisis seem even scarier? Add in a potentially deadly virus. CBS's "The Early Show," reported August 7 that a new stronger strain of the West Nile virus could spread across the country with help from the neglected pools found in foreclosed homes in California. "Apparently ... as more and more homes are passing into foreclosure and there are many, and many of…
Chicago Official Pleads Guilty To Fraud; Guess the Party
Former Chicago Alderwoman Arenda Troutman pleaded guilty yesterday (8/6/08) to felony counts of mail fraud and tax fraud. She faces up to 5 years in prison. The Chicago Tribune reported the story, and the Los Angeles Times published an edited version of the Trib's report.Can you guess the one word that you won't find in either story? "Democrat." According to Wikipedia, "In 2006, Troutman was…
VP Cheney's Own Words Debunk LAT's Rutten, Suskind Book
Los Angeles Times's Tim Rutten is at it again. In an op-ed in today's paper (Wed. 8/6/08), Rutten buttresses a new book by author Ron Suskind and asserts that "Vice President Dick Cheney and his inner circle long have insisted" that Iraq was directly connected to the September 11 attacks.Rutten's claim is an easy one to debunk. Here's Vice President Cheney in a Meet the Press interview with Tim…
Worldwide AIDs Progress: No Credit to Bush, No Matter What
E-mailer and frequent NB commenter Gary Hall sent me a link to a July 30 LA Times article about how worldwide AIDS deaths are down 10%. In discussing the improvement, it's hysterical in one sense, but very sad in another, to watch how reporter Thomas H. Maugh II studiously avoided using the word "abstinence" (the A-word), which does not appear even once in his entire piece. Just to be sure no…
Time's Tripe Is 'Tired': Mag Claims Obama Is Right, Ridicule Is 'Smear
UPDATE, Aug. 6 -- The media fact-checker overview begins here, and continues below the fold:"..... all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling" Obama refers to is NOT just the 200,000 additional barrels obtainable from the "Pacific, Atlantic and eastern Gulf regions." Republican proposals also include Alaska, shale oil, and tar sands.Just including Alaska coastal at very…
LAT's Ridiculous Links: '2 Obama Backers Hospitalized
The L.A.Times's Andrew Malcolm is so over come by Obamamania that he sees connections to his messiah everywhere, even in hospitals separated by hundreds of miles, from patients admitted days apart, with maladies and injuries that are completely dissimilar. And not just with ordinary everyday patients in those hospitals, but with two star studded actors who ended up in hospitals, one in Chicago…
LAT Staffer: Rush Limbaugh Show Is 'Mean-Spirited,' 'Invective
If a journalist ever wanted to exhibit her spectacular ignorance and bias, the Los Angeles Times' Johanna Neuman performed with flying colors. In a recent blog post about the surprise congratulatory phone call from the Bush family to Rush Limbaugh's radio show, Neuman offered,We imagine the reason the tape has not yet popped up on YouTube is that is was singularly lacking in the biting, mean-…
GOP House Revolt Over Oil Drilling Gets Ignored or Buried
On Friday, NewsBusters wondered how much attention media would pay to the Republican revolt that occurred after Speaker Pelosi adjourned the House for a five week vacation without allowing a vote on offshore oil drilling.It turns out that if you rely on the evening news programs of the three broadcast networks, you didn't hear about this extraordinary event at all (photo courtesy AP). And, if you…
LAT Front-Page Headline: 'War On Terror Loses Ground
Let's get this straight: Michael Yon, a journalist who's been over in Iraq about as much as anybody, has declared, "[T]he Iraq War is over. We won." Even the Associated Press has admitted we are "now winning" in Iraq. The New York Times grudgingly concedes a "remarkable change" in Baghdad since a once-powerful Shiite army has lost its grip.So what's the top-of-the-page headline in Sunday's Los…
AP's 'US Now Winning Iraq War' Analysis Getting Light Exposure
Robert Burns and Robert H. Reid created quite a stir in the blogosphere yesterday with their dispatch from Baghdad, "Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost." NewsBusters colleague Noel Sheppard accurately called it a "stop the presses" story, and ended his post with an important perspective that you really must read if you haven't already. Now that the story has had one overnight news…
LAT Muzzles Staff On Edwards Story, Trumpets Obama (Again) with HUGE P
How bad is the pro-Democratic bias at the Los Angeles Times? Here are two more examples ... from just the past 24 hours.1. Slate's Mickey Kaus published a jaw-dropping item earlier today that the Los Angeles Times has banned its bloggers from writing about the reported affair between Sen. John Edwards and a blonde named Rielle Hunter. Kaus obtained a copy of an e-mail written by Times editor Tony…
CNN Admits Error in USC College Republicans Story
CNN has admitted to a serious error in a report filed Thursday concerning a Republican student organization at the University of Southern California.A segment which originally aired at 6:00 AM on "American Morning," and twice after that, used a person not affiliated with the USC College Republicans to suggest the organization is having a hard time drawing support because of a lack of enthusiasm…
