Post Spins History to Attack Business Reparations story calls slavery a crime and fails to remind readers…

     Drug companies cant catch a break on TV news shows. After months of media complaints about companies selling allegedly unsafe medicines such as Vioxx,…

Despite the fact that experts discredit any link between Hurricane Katrina and global warming, the media continue to talk about it in print and on at least four major TV…

For two weeks since hurricane Katrina made landfall, Americas media have been presenting startling images of an impoverished New Orleans. Unfortunately, many…

     As Katrina survivors begin to file insurance claims, some politicians and activists want to hold insurance companies and taxpayers responsible for…

As good neighbors, private charities, and government agencies rushed to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina, CNNs Lou Dobbs and Lisa Sylvester offered their…

A new study of drugs for schizophrenia is getting media attention both for what it says and for what the media claim it says. The Washington Post especially…

     Political and scientific circles are still reeling from Katrinas impact as left-wing climate change advocates try to link the hurricane with global…

Winners and losers is a familiar journalistic story construction that often oversimplifies situations. The September 25 Washington Post dubbed motorists the…

Doctors and manufacturers are colluding against patients and the hospitals that serve them, according to the September 22 New York Times.

The Picture of Hype Networks show exaggerated video of highest gas prices,…

Scientists dont agree about global warming, especially when it comes to claiming it caused recent hurricanes. But Time magazine claims the connection is an…

The global warming alarmists are out again. The polar ice caps arent leaving us forever, but ABC and The New York Times seized a new study this week about seasonal change…

The Washington Post and ABCs World News Tonight jumped on childhood obesity again this week, ignoring personal choice when it comes to eating, while NBCs Today called for…

     Broadcast journalists have been the only ones bidding up gas prices lately. While they foretell a horizon of $4 and $5 gas, consumers on U.S. streets…

Finally, the discussion about Hurricane Katrinas aftermath has turned to the Mississippi coast. Since the advent of the storm, devastated Mississippi…

     If there were a Saffir-Simpson scale for newscasts, CNNs Lou Dobbs Tonight would have been downgraded long ago from news to rant. A September 20 report on the Labor…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. On the network news, it equals about 75 cents a gallon.      That's how much the three broadcast…

A few weeks ago, NewsBusters introduced readers to an amazing homeless girl in Florida with a truly inspiring view of life.

Her story, first told by CBS's 60 Minutes, touched so many…

On Wednesday, the Politico ran a story about the International Association of Machinists Union at Boeing agreeing to approve a contract extension, the result of which ultimately led to the…

Those working at MSNBC probably believe they are providing a valuable public service. The network might actually have a chance of doing that if its executives hired an ombudsdman. Should this…

President Obama's much-ballyhooed speech in Osawatomie, Kan., was his best effort to put a happy face on class warfare. Though some were elated, fantasizing that he might be getting his…

Hardball's Chris Matthews on Monday spewed hatred for Newt Gingrich, excoriating him as voicing "deadly" contempt for Barack Obama. Matthews trashed, "He's a political killer, a gun for hire…

Editor's Note on reposting (December 15, 2015): Today is the 224th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, so I thought I'd repost this item from December 12, 2011. I checked the…

The media never let President Bush live down the so-called "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 when the then-president declared an end of major combat…