Don Kaplan of the New York Post has a great column today about the failing cable station MSNBC, and quite appropriately asks why we need it (hat tip to TV Newser):
“‘It's really running…
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June 14th, 2006 2:35 PM | Noel Sheppard
June 14th, 2006 2:00 PM | BMI Staff
Recession
Never Recedes Far from News Comments
A few down days in the stock market
and the media turn to Mr. Reliable recession. Its…
June 14th, 2006 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
Recession Never Recedes Far from News Comments TV reports continue to raise the specter of economic troubles despite…
June 14th, 2006 9:46 AM | Noel Sheppard
In America, people are innocent until proven guilty, unless of course they are Republican.
No finer example of such legal relativism has occurred in recent memory than the case of President…
June 14th, 2006 8:53 AM | Tim Graham
PBS talk-show host Charlie Rose returned to his set on Monday night after some weeks off for heart surgery. While he was out, PBS used a rotating set of liberal-media stars as hosts, including…
June 13th, 2006 9:48 PM | Robin Boyd
The media is overflowing with stories about the incident in Haditha on November 19, 2005. There are so many stories and so many interviews but there is a problem. Many of the stories and…
June 13th, 2006 3:07 PM | Brent Baker
An October 17, 2005 NewsBusters item I wrote recounted: CNN's Jack Cafferty, on Monday afternoon's [October 17] The Situation Room, took a cheap shot at Karl Rove's weight and expressed delight in…
June 13th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
Gores Film, Lionized by Media, A Pussycat at Box Office Documentarys lackluster performance worse than Gigli, A Prairie…
June 13th, 2006 9:21 AM | Ken Shepherd
Perhaps not since “Gigli” has a movie so highly anticipated by the media done so little at the box office. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been and still is being strongly promoted…
June 13th, 2006 3:48 AM | Brent Baker
The networks have been eager over the last few weeks to highlight every new charge or claim related to the alleged massacre by U.S. Marines of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq last November (a new study…
June 12th, 2006 5:11 PM | Matthew Sheffield
MSNBC surprised everyone Monday with its announcement that the struggling channel will now be headed by an executive tag team of "Today" chief Phil Griffin and one of its own show hosts, Dan…
June 12th, 2006 2:36 PM | Tim Graham
On Monday’s "Good Morning America," co-host Charles Gibson interviewed Rep. John Murtha, the perfect opportunity to press him hard on how Zarqawi might not have been defeated if our troops had…
June 11th, 2006 9:55 PM | Noel Sheppard
Howard Kurtz this morning invited National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle, and Time’s Karen Tumulty on to discuss Ann Coulter’s new book, and her recent appearance on…
June 11th, 2006 11:56 AM | Noel Sheppard
Sometimes I think that if you really want to know what’s going on in the world, you should read The New York Times…and assume the exact opposite is true. Take Saturday’s article “Gathering…
June 9th, 2006 9:47 PM | Brent Baker
NBC’s David Gregory on Friday night resurrected two of the favorite quotes of Bush-bashers as he contrasted past boasts with how the current “cautious view about the way forward in Iraq underscores…
June 9th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
CNN Airs Glowing Review of Ethanol Boom in Iowa Reporter Lothian leaves out how taxpayers are picking up a large part…
June 9th, 2006 11:50 AM | Greg Sheffield
If the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were "good" news, it's hard to imagine how the media could report much worse for "bad" news in Iraq.
Pretend Pundit has a good roundup of media…
June 9th, 2006 9:56 AM | Noel Sheppard
If Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and all of al Qaeda’s leaders in Iraq and throughout the world laid down their arms and surrendered to American forces, would the media report it as good…
June 8th, 2006 3:40 PM | Rich Noyes
As they do every weekday at noon, CNN’s American viewers were switched over to the CNN International network’s “Your World Today,” a show so far to the left that it makes the rest of CNN look like a…
June 8th, 2006 1:00 PM | Scott Whitlock
In May of 2004, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi participated in the beheading of Nicholas Berg, a businessman working in Iraq. His father, Michael, emerged in the aftermath of that crime as an outspoken…
June 8th, 2006 12:36 PM | Mark Finkelstein
As has been documented at NewsBusters here, here, here and here, the predictable MSM response to the killing of Zarqawi has been to downplay its signficance. But there was one surprising bright…
June 8th, 2006 6:36 AM | Mark Finkelstein
You just knew it. The MSM had to find a way to downplay the significance of the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Whereas he had been portrayed as the key to…
June 8th, 2006 12:35 AM | Brent Baker
At a time when left-wing Bush-haters regularly call the President a “liar” and a killer, ABC and NBC on Wednesday night pegged stories to the controversy over Ann Coulter’s criticism of the very…
June 7th, 2006 8:26 PM | Brent Baker
Rick Kaplan, who as reported earlier by Matthew Sheffield, announced his departure Wednesday from MSNBC where he’d run the least-watched cable news network as its President since February of 2004,…
June 7th, 2006 6:28 PM | Matthew Sheffield
MSNBC president Rick Kaplan has resigned from the network. TVNewser is on top of all the latest developments. Here's Kaplan's fairwell note:
I want to let you all know that today I'm leaving…