Campbell's Unintentional Election Advice: 'Pick the Ones Who Look Toug
September 3rd, 2006 8:42 AM
The ostensible topic was the NFL fantasy-league draft that members of the Today show crew recently conducted. But in sharing her strategy for making draft picks, Campbell Brown might have unintentionally offered hope to Republicans looking nervously to November and beyond.Campbell admitted to weekend co-host Lester Holt that she knows little about football. So in making her picks, Brown said…
Coulter-Bashing Secular Leftist Professor Featured in ‘Today’ Piec
September 1st, 2006 3:22 PM
In a September 1 piece for the "Today" show, NBC reporter Keith Miller sought out Jerry Coyne, a University of Chicago professor, to discuss the struggle between science and religion, since it's now being debated in front of Pope Benedict XIV. NBC labeled him simply as a "evolutionary biologist." This is what he had to say about the mixing of faith and science: Jerry Coyne: "The scientific way of…
Heck of a Bush-Bashing Job, Brownie! Lauer Leads Chorus of Complaint
August 29th, 2006 8:50 AM
Is it news to anyone that Michael Brown thinks he got a bum rap on Katrina? As shopworn as was his concatenation of complaint this morning, Matt Lauer treated it with the enthusiasm of a Live at Five reporter on the scene of a fresh accident out on county route 11. You knew this was coming: Lauer got things off to a Bush-bashing start with the famous "you're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" clip…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: August 19th to 25th
August 25th, 2006 4:16 PM
NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell continued the skewed media reporting of the Middle East by noting the important social work that Hezbollah does and how the rest of the world has a very supportive take on the terrorist organization. Liberal TV critic Bob Laurence hypothesized that the scant coverage of the kidnaping of two Fox News journalists was due to the frequency of abductions and the network’s…
NBC Uses Trial Attorney / John Edwards Donor to Slam Insurance Compani
August 25th, 2006 12:26 PM
Last night NBC gave its August 24 "Nightly News" audience a one-sided story on Katrina insurance claims. Correspondent Ron Mott stacked three critics (a plaintiff, his attorney, and another woman filing suit) of insurance companies against a one-sentence statement by State Farm insurance.What's more, NBC's Ron Mott left out some detail about one of his featured plaintiffs: Judy Guice of Biloxi.
NBC Nightly News: Allen Comments Now Labeled ‘Off-The-Cuff Racial Sl
August 24th, 2006 11:54 AM
NBC reporter David Gregory last night described Senator George Allen’s now well known "macaca" comment as a "off-the-cuff racial slur," giving the darkest possible interpretation of his words. The Senator has since apologized several times and stated that he wasn't attempting to use a discriminatory term. Gregory’s segment, which aired on the August 23 "Nightly News" at 7:13PM EDT, discussed…
