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August 20th, 2008 9:26 PM | Brent Baker
CBS News reporter Dean Reynolds, who on Tuesday night centered a story on how “Obama is pivoting toward a more combative style, rebuking the Republicans for habitually turning differences over policy…
August 19th, 2008 10:10 PM | Brent Baker
CBS and NBC led Tuesday night with speculation over the VP picks, but moved quickly, without citing any proof of John McCain's supposed scurrilous attack on Barack Obama's patriotism, to Obama…
August 18th, 2008 2:00 PM | Mark Finkelstein
As NewsBuster Brad Wilmouth has noted, over the weekend NBC News political director Chuck Todd, previewing the Saddleback forum, suggested it represented an opportunity for Obama to forestall "…
August 18th, 2008 10:32 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On a special Saturday edition of MSNBC's Hardball, while previewing that night's presidential candidates forum hosted by evangelical leader Rick Warren, NBC News Political Director Chuck…
August 17th, 2008 11:16 AM | Mike Bates
Last night the Reverend Rick Warren questioned Barack Obama and John McCain at California's Saddleback Church. Post forum coverage at CNN was hosted by network chief national correspondent John…
August 12th, 2008 4:04 PM | Brent Bozell
You know there are some in the liberal media who have simply lost touch with reality when the headline reads "John Edwards Cheats on Wife With Cancer" and they ask with great detachment whether he…
July 30th, 2008 9:15 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Chuck Todd has some advice for John McCain: embrace Ted Stevens' demise. The NBC News political director made his suggestion in the course of kibitzing McCain campaign strategy with Joe…
July 26th, 2008 7:24 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Appearing on the Monday, July 21, Tonight Show, MSNBC host Chris Matthews defended his declaration from last February that a Barack Obama speech caused him to feel a "thrill going up my leg," and…
July 24th, 2008 11:48 AM | Noel Sheppard
In another sign that the bloom might be coming off the Obama rose, the NBC "Nightly News" Wednesday reported some new poll results that not only suggest this election has suddenly become "a…
July 11th, 2008 2:03 PM | Justin McCarthy
The United States is not in a recession. But the crew of the "Today" show does not care about the facts. On the July 11 edition, the NBC morning program focused on McCain adviser Phil Gramm’s "…
July 9th, 2008 9:25 PM | Mark Finkelstein
If there's one person in the NBC news stable who combines solid analytical skills with a commitment to fairness, it could be political director Chuck Todd. Evidence thereof comes from no less a…
July 9th, 2008 7:13 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews seemed "thrilled" by new poll numbers showing Obama gaining strength and was so caught up in Terry McAuliffe's prediction of a Democratic sweep he…
June 3rd, 2008 5:51 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On an evening where Barack Obama was on the verge of clinching the Democratic nomination and there was news that Hillary Clinton wanted in on the ticket, it was all too much for Chris Matthews to…
May 29th, 2008 9:21 AM | Tim Graham
As part of their post-mortem for the zombified Hillary Clinton campaign, National Public Radio is blaming the media (including talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and Fox's Neil…
May 20th, 2008 11:35 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Doesn't Mika Brzezinski have any Republicans in her Rolodex? With Joe Scarborough home in Florida awaiting the birth of a baby, Mika has been filling in as anchor, and I sense doing much of the show…
April 16th, 2008 5:54 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," has ticked off Chris Matthews. On Wednesday's "Hardball" Matthews insulted Limbaugh's listeners, who are voting in the Democratic primary, as he questioned: "…
April 7th, 2008 9:51 AM | Ken Shepherd
The Los Angeles Times today issued an official retraction for a story published on the basis of a now-discredited source.
The Times already apologized for the story on March 27 (see Warner…
March 28th, 2008 10:14 PM | Mark Finkelstein
He calls it Hardball, but again tonight Chris Matthews showed he's a softy when it comes to Barack Obama. Chris was crestfallen when NBC News political director Chuck Todd laid out the case,…
March 25th, 2008 12:32 PM | Rich Noyes
One week after Hillary Clinton claimed that she faced sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia — and six days after NewsBusters posted contemporaneous news footage from CBS showing that she did not — the big…
March 5th, 2008 11:37 AM | Mark Finkelstein
When Christopher Hitchens came on today's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough began by inviting him to comment on "last night's" results. Quipped the famously hard-living Hitchens: "I'm still…
February 22nd, 2008 7:47 AM | Tim Graham
The New York Times "scoop" strongly suggesting a romantic relationship between John McCain and a lobbyist drew heavy coverage from all three morning shows Thursday. All three featured interviews…
February 21st, 2008 2:45 AM | Brent Baker
MSNBC was so excited about a Thursday New York Times story with a derogatory look at Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s supposed relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago,…
February 19th, 2008 11:14 AM | Noel Sheppard
If you were to write an article about how the three cable news networks are covering a story, would you address the one with the highest ratings first, or the also-ran?
At the Washington…
February 4th, 2008 12:49 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On the Monday "Today" show co-host Ann Curry was breaking down the delegate counts for each Super Tuesday state with NBC's political director Chuck Todd but when it came to finding Barack…
January 27th, 2008 8:43 PM | Noel Sheppard
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the mainstream media in general have shied away from truly examining the racist campaign strategy recently being employed by the Clintons in their effort to…