In an October 19, 2005, article, veteran Associated Press reporter Tom Raum claimed (emphasis added),
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's CIA-leak inquiry is focusing attention on what…
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October 22nd, 2005 8:52 PM | Dave Pierre
October 22nd, 2005 10:18 AM | Tim Graham
And we thought PBS films were bad. David’s Medienkritik reports the German government has subsidized a sympathetic film about Palestinian suicide bombers."Paradise Now" tells the story of two…
October 20th, 2005 6:08 PM | Dan Gainor
While the House of Representatives was getting serious about legal reform, CNN was calling it “silly” and other TV news outlets ignored it.The House passed the “cheeseburger bill” October 19 – a…
October 17th, 2005 9:43 PM | Brent Baker
CNN's Jack Cafferty, on Monday afternoon's The Situation Room, took a cheap shot at Karl Rove's weight and expressed delight in the possibility Rove will be indicted. Just past 3pm EDT, Cafferty…
October 17th, 2005 12:22 PM | Greg Sheffield
The Washington Post has an article about the deteriorating relationship between White House press secretary Scott McClellan and the reporters who cover the White House.
CBS correspondent John…
October 15th, 2005 1:58 PM | Mithridate Ombud
CNN runs an AP article on King Midas, a 300-pound sea turtle from Louisiana. In one of the photo captions it says King Midas is "in his watery home with other fish at the aquarium in New Orleans…
October 15th, 2005 1:01 PM | Brent Baker
A follow-up, with Friday morning coverage, to the Thursday night NewsBusters posting, “Shocked, Just Shocked Network Reporters Hype 'Staged’ Bush Event with Troops,” which detailed how the NBC…
October 14th, 2005 5:49 PM | Brent Baker
Just before 5pm EDT Friday, during The Situation Room's review of blog postings, CNN's Jacki Schechner recited examples of blog sites critical of the media's hyping of the so-called “staged” live…
October 14th, 2005 12:06 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Mirroring the same evening's NBC Nightly News (see earlier NewsBusters item), on Thursday night's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann led with the rehearsed meeting between President Bush and…
October 13th, 2005 9:04 PM | Brent Baker
Thursday's NBC Nightly News led, yes led, with how, as anchor Brian Williams put it, President Bush had that morning conducted “a staged event" via satellite with ten U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi…
October 13th, 2005 7:31 PM | Dan Gainor
For the media, Hurricane Katrina has been a story of zeroes – the more, the better. While reports before the hurricane’s landing incorrectly warned of tens of thousands of deaths, one prediction…
October 12th, 2005 9:35 PM | Tim Graham
Wednesday's edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show was devoted to a look "Inside the Lives of America's Poor," coming out of the spirit of the reporting from hurricane Katrina. Once again, Oprah was…
October 12th, 2005 12:01 AM | Noel Sheppard
People outside of Prince George’s County, Maryland might not be aware of it, but the Pentagon launched a new cable channel recently, and CNN is…
October 10th, 2005 7:17 AM | Greg Sheffield
Near the farmhouse, the foxes will hold a panel discussion on the phenomena of hens going missing from the henhouse.
This Aesop-like fable will be played out next week on Oct. 17 at the National…
October 9th, 2005 1:47 PM | Noel Sheppard
Even though the big news event this week was the president’s nomination of Harriet Miers to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the…
October 9th, 2005 12:04 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On the Saturday edition of the NBC Nightly News, anchored by John Seigenthaler, correspondent Lisa Myers reported several critical mistakes made by Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco in handling…
October 7th, 2005 9:31 PM | Noel Sheppard
September employment was little-changed despite predictions of 500,000 job losses.
Remember all those reports filed by the mainstream media predicting doom and gloom right after Katrina…
October 7th, 2005 1:00 AM | Noel Sheppard
Recent press accounts suggest earlier calls for a unifying nominee were a red herring.
The past few months have been a target-…
October 6th, 2005 9:08 PM | Dan Gainor
ABC, CBS, NBC skip $40-billion catastrophe at mortgage giant.
Network news continues to ignore the ongoing $40-billion crisis at mortgage giant Fannie Mae, despite new accounting problems and…
October 6th, 2005 12:39 AM | Noel Sheppard
The double-standards in today’s news coverage defy belief.
…October 5th, 2005 7:02 PM | Noel Sheppard
CNN’s Kelly Wallace interviewed former president Bill Clinton for an “American Morning” segment today while he was visiting Hurricane Katrina evacuees…
October 5th, 2005 11:31 AM | Ken Shepherd
In the 7:30 a.m. newsbrief, Early Show co-host Hannah Storm set up a soundbite with New York Times reporter Judith Miller where she slams special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for her 85-day long…
October 5th, 2005 12:41 AM | Tim Graham
On CNN tonight, Lou Dobbs declared his deep admiration for New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her well-chronicled 85-day stay in the pokey near the MRC headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia…
October 4th, 2005 8:43 PM | Noel Sheppard
The following two reports from CNN (videos to follow) give us an amazing contrast between the efficiency of business in America, and the inefficiency…
October 4th, 2005 6:06 AM | Brent Baker
Dan Rather's national media colleagues rallied around him, and denigrated his critics, at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards presented by the National Television Academy at a September 19…