20 Years of Bias: Evil America
To commemorate the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary this month, we’ve just published a special expanded edition of our ‘Notable Quotables’ newsletter with more than 100 of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes we’ve uncovered over the past 20 years. Earlier this week, I presented quotes showing the media’s hostility towards Ronald Reagan and other conservatives, and sycophantic…
Global Warming Hysteria Drives States to Sue Bush Administration Over
For many months, NewsBusters has been warning readers that the hysteria being generated by the media and the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore concerning climate change would eventually begin to impact energy and economic policies. Following last Thursday's landmark decision in Kansas to not give an electricity producer a construction license for a coal-fired power plant due to global warming…
'How Dirty Did the Tricks Get?' NYT Swallows All Valerie Plame's Claim
Valerie Plame (wife of serial anti-war misleader Joe Wilson) has just published "Fair Game," the biography of her life before and after columnist Robert Novak "outed" her as a "CIA operative" in a column in 2003, starting a domino effect that made her and her husband heroes of the antiwar movement and the media, including the New York Times.Times critic Janet Maslin's review Monday neither…
NYT v. NYT: 'Splendid Provocation of a Book' vs. 'Book That Gives Fem
After dedicating nearly 10,000 words over two months to promoting feminist author Susan Faludi's bizarre screed "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America," the New York Times finally ran into some opposition: its own book reviewer. Clay Waters described the paper's September 27 interview with the author here. It was one of five articles the paper dedicated to the book, which argues…
Price of Media Warm-mongering: Kansas Denies Coal-fired Power Plant Li
On Thursday, for the first time in American history, a state denied an electricity producer a construction license for a coal-fired power plant due to manmade global warming fears. As ominously reported by the New York Times Saturday (emphasis added): The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday turned down a permit for twin 700-megawatt coal-fired generators that a group of…
NYT Site Airs Clip Resembling 'Commercial for Iraqi Terrorists
Little Green Footballs seized on a video "op-ed" posted on the New York Times website, six minutes of clips from a documentary called Meeting Resistance by Molly Bingham and Steve Connors, interspersed with anti-"occupation" text. LGF asks: "How low can the New York Times Go?" Airing what looks like a "commercial for Iraqi terrorists."Bingham, an heiress to the Louisville newspaper dynasty, was…
NYT Blog Asks Readers to Pressure Representatives to Override S-CHIP V
It certainly isn't shocking that the New York Times wants to expand government-sponsored health insurance. However, is it appropriate for the Editorial Board of the Times Blog to ask readers to pressure House Representatives to override a presidential veto? Or, does this fall into a similar level of advocacy as a newspaper endorsing a politician running for office? While you ponder the…
NYT Shares Fall to 10-year Low After Morgan Stanley Cashes Out
The bad news keeps on coming for the New York Times. When will company chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger announce he's a failure and his ideas should be reversed? Oh wait, I forgot, only Republican presidents are supposed to do that.Sulzberger sure hasn't been doing well, though. Here's the latest:Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest shareholder in New York Times Co., sold its entire 7.3 percent…
MRC's Bozell Discusses Gen. Sanchez Slam on Media That NYT Ignored
MRC president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 15 "Hannity & Colmes" to discuss the New York Times ignoring retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's recent complaints about shoddy, biased, and inaccurate media coverage of the war in Iraq. Video (3:36): Real (2.64) and Windows (2.20 MB), plus MP3 audio (1.64 MB). Among other complaints, Sanchez hit the media for its "…
