Times-Picayune Buries Dartez Defeat - No Mention of 'Buckwheat' Slur

November 20th, 2007 1:24 PM
On Saturday, State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez (D-La.) lost her re-election bid to Republican challenger Joe Harrison in a heated and controversial run-off. Yet the largest newspaper in Louisiana, The Times-Picayune (TP), chose to bury it as an afterthought in its coverage of the statewide election results. The Times-Picayune online edition, NOLA.com, placed this paragraph at the end…

WSJ Expects to Tear Down Subscription Wall: Murdoch

November 13th, 2007 5:31 PM

USA Today and WSJ Mask Serious Circulation Problems at Most Other Majo

November 8th, 2007 5:34 PM
It is understandable, but not forgivable, that business reporters at Old Media newspapers might think that the economy is in bad shape. They first have to get past how poorly most of their employers are doing. The industry as a whole has not been doing well, and it's been that way for quite some time. This table illustrates that point (September 30, 2007 figures are at this post, which originally…

Media Push Doom & Gloom While U.S. Economy Roars Ahead

November 5th, 2007 10:49 AM

Does USA Today's Al Neuharth Have a Messianic Complex

October 25th, 2007 2:55 PM
USA Today founder Al Neuharth (file photo at right), who in February blustered that George W. Bush should be "planted firmly at the top" of the list of the worst U.S. presidents, reportedly dressed up as Jesus Christ --crown of thorns and all-- at a dinner with USA Today senior staff in the newspaper's infancy. The October 25 Washington Post "The Reliable Source" column relayed the account by…

Damned If You Do: Bush Visit Will 'Distract' From CA Firefighting

October 23rd, 2007 6:50 PM
President Bush has shown that he can be empathetic, sensitive and decisive. But those qualities eluded him for days after Hurricane Katrina . . . He didn't cancel his vacation until two days after Katrina struck and didn't visit the region until four days after the storm. -- "A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina", USA Today, 9-9-05USA Today's broadside is typical of the MSM…

Mika Miffed America Not Like China

October 18th, 2007 7:38 AM
A voguish Dem theme is that America's reputation in the world has been eroded and that the next Dem president will restore it. Hillary Clinton has gone so far as to propose appointing Bill as a "roving" [I'll say] ambassador for such purposes. We can safely ignore such fluff as so much presidential-season silliness. A great nation's reputation is forged not by its goodwill ambassadors, but by…

CBS Champions Support for S-CHIP Expansion, But When People Know Facts

October 17th, 2007 9:39 PM
A day after a USA Today/Gallup Poll discovered the majority of Americans, when provided with basic facts about the scope and impact of the plan to expand the S-CHIP program, agree with President Bush's concerns which led to his veto, on Wednesday's CBS Evening News Katie Couric trumpeted how a new CBS News poll found 81 percent favor “expanding this health insurance program for poor children.”…

Senate Condemnation of MoveOn’s ‘Betray Us’ Ad Receives Mixed Co

September 22nd, 2007 2:28 PM
On Thursday, a NewsBusters headline asked, "How Will Media Report Senate Vote Condemning MoveOn's ‘Betray Us' Ad?" The answer is a mixed bag with some outlets such as the Washington Post giving the issue a surprising amount of focus, and others like CBS and ABC totally ignoring the matter. From a print perspective, the Post certainly showed a lot of moxie with its front page piece entitled "…

CNN.com, USAToday.com Bury Coverage of 'Jena 6' Beating Victim

September 20th, 2007 1:20 PM

USA Today: 'Detainees Tell of Abuses' -- But Story Shows Little of it

September 11th, 2007 11:01 PM
This USA Today story about an AP report should be called headline abuse instead of "detainee abuse" because if one were to just read the headline and move on, you'd get the wrong impression about what the story really reveals. You'd obviously read USA Today's headline, "Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses," and assume the story is another abu Ghraib styled yarn about how evil US soldiers are…

Report Showing Positive Business Signs in the Katrina Zone Sinks Below

September 7th, 2007 2:09 PM

USA Today: Military 'Camp' Inspires 'Patriotism, Teamwork and Sacrific

September 5th, 2007 5:10 AM
USA Today lends a big assist in promulgating Chinese propaganda as the paper helps explain away the nature of the forced military training that Chinese children undergo. Calling the compulsory training a benign sounding "camp" and presenting the children's training as if it is a mere summer excursion, USA Today soft sells China's militarization of their youth in theirs titled, "Chinese kids…

ABC Looks at Media Bias in Duke Rape Case; Ignores Example From Own Ne

September 4th, 2007 3:46 PM
On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," anchor Chris Cuomo talked to the authors of a new book about how liberals in the media allowed their politically correct biases to color coverage of the accused students in the Duke lacrosse rape case. Critiquing the media, Cuomo acknowledged, "It was difficult to report on this story fairly because there was so much pressure about pushing the angle that…