The broadcast and cable news networks have grown comfortable with using the gossip site TMZ.com on celebrity stories like Brittany Murphy or Tiger Woods. Will they follow that pattern when their…
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Former president Jimmy Carter is doing one terrific job. So reports the Associated Press today in its "Carter finds happiness in foreign missions." According to the article:Since leaving the White…
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The Founder and President of the Media Research Center (MRC) and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell appeared this morning on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends to discuss some of the…
Should mankind engineer nature as a "last resort" to halt global warming? On NBC's Dec. 26 broadcast of "Nightly News," network correspondent Donna Friesen floated several means by which man could…
It took a tough question from Matt Lauer, but after having laughably claimed that "the system worked," DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has now conceded the obvious: that the security system that…
NBC News Washington Bureau Chief (and former Newsweek editor) Mark Whitaker penned an evaluation of President Obama’s first year for Monday’s Washington Post that was heavy on the flattery and…
Joy Behar expressed confusion about the success of Sarah Palin's book because, according to the CNN Headline News/ABC talk show host, a lot of the former governor's “base doesn't even read.”…
In reviewing the Best Television of the Decade on Sunday, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales named one day’s live news coverage (9/11), six TV shows, and three people – Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow,…
Newsweek’s year-end "Conventional Wisdom 2009" page recycles the magazine’s usual distilled liberalism in a sentence. In this case, there were two sentences: their version of the CW and "Think…
Interview with Chicago Fire Chief Alden Brown two days after the Great Chicago Fire:
ALDEN BROWN: One thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role…As the lone journalist on Sunday's Meet the Press roundtable (with Newt Gingrich, Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick), NBC's Andrea Mitchell insisted the “Obama Doctrine” has “borne fruit,” but “it…
(UPDATE: Politico is now covering this with reference to this very NewsBusters story. Politico's Patrick Gavin claims that Baucus's office was sent an e-mail for an explanation of his strange…
How does someone qualify for description as an "eminent politician" by the New York Times? Being very, very liberal seems to help.Today on its Web site, the newspaper reports "Percy Sutton, Eminent…
Start of the 2010 countdown while looking in the rear view mirror @ 2009.(In no particular order)
Maybe there…
Appearing as a guest on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, TVNewser’s Gail Shister, who was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame in 2008, made a sexual…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the Christmas Day bombing.
A U.S. official said that Nigerian banker Umaru Mutallab, the father of the accused man, warned…
Pres. Obama should find time in his busy vacation schedule to drop a palm-trees-and-sandy-beaches thank you postcard to NBC. On this morning's Today, successive network staffers defended the…
Remember how outraged the left became when Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, showed President George W. Bush not issuing a public statement on the Twin Tower attacks for several minutes…
On Thursday, the Treasury Department issued a press release, called "Update on Status of Support for Housing Programs." Its fourth paragraph reads as follows:
At the time the Federal Housing…Saturday's Fox Newswatch on FNC highlighted two “winners” in the MRC's “Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.” (Posting on NewsBusters) Viewers…
It’s probably not a good idea to blog drunk. That impression comes from the Christmas Eve ravings on the Daily Kos, fresh from the Cheers & Jeers page of the Kosmonaut calling himself Bill…
There I was, watching the perfectly harmless Meineke Car Care Bowl, when a truly creepy Government Motors commercial for the Chevy Silverado pickup broke out . . .GM spokesman, and former NFL…
Saturday’s Fox News Watch gave attention to a couple of entries in the MRC’s "Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting." Returning from a commercial…
It has been interesting watching the Associated Press reports on the attempted takedown of Flight 253 devolve in the past 12-plus hours.
In its 8:56 a.m. report (likely dynamic and subject…