"Authenticity a priority for the other Obama," blares the headline for a puffy July 17 Denver Post story on the Illinois senator's wife Michelle Obama. The story by staffers Suzanne Brown and Dana…
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While Thursday’s New York Times reported that the anchors from all three network newscasts will be joining Barack Obama on his trip to Iraq, they showed no such interest in following John McCain…
Only on the network news could one culprit – the economy – be blamed for both a rise and a fall in divorce rates. But in one week, NBC and ABC managed to do just that.
NBC “Today…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is the financial crisis over?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares had their best day in more than two decades on Wednesday after…
If the reports are true, Barack Obama has gone from Democrat presidential candidate to an out and out media star.
According to the New York Times, when the junior senator from Illinois goes…
In a rare self admission, the media admits they are in the tank for Obama. IHT - Media stars will accompany Obama overseas
Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair…
ABC was full of contradictions on July 16. “Good Morning America” told viewers not to panic over the IndyMac bank failure, but listed a handful of banks its experts suspect are troubled.…
A visit to the Vanderbilt TV News archives (no link; registration is required) reveals that on September 20, 1996:
GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole was trying to make up lost ground…Will we be forced to buy carbon credits from Al Gore in order to assuage our guilt over eating Big Macs or other types of hamburgers? Perhaps. As we saw recently in NewsBusters, there is a theory…
WAFB TV Channel 9, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana pulled out all the stops for this ridiculous report claiming that "some women" in the Pelican State are resorting to working in strip clubs because…
Larry Hunter claims he is a "lifelong conservative." Yet, in his recent New York Daily News article, he also says he is voting for Barack Obama for president. The two simply cannot coexist. One…
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked Jesse Helms as a "homophobe," and suggested naming a "gay-bashing organization" after the recently deceased former Republican…
Mainstream media outlets declined to cover a press conference held yesterday by conservative groups protesting a McDonald's spokesman who accused them of “hatred.”
A coalition of pro-…
A Washington Post article today quotes three people who oppose the U.S. Census Bureau's decision not to recognize as marriages same-sex marriages in Massachusetts and California in the 2010 census…
When our culture merchants calculate how to exploit societal attitudes toward the homosexual lifestyle, one factor doesn't enter into the equation. Frankly, they don't give a damn about people who…
A night after ABC anchor Charles Gibson hit full panic mode by leading with how “markets are gyrating, inflation is rising, banks are closing” and suggesting money is only safe “under the mattress…
When is a Democrat a "conservative?" When he's featured in a scandal story about adultery and murder.
The Washington Post is downplaying the…
According to Variety, Chris Wallace, anchor of "Fox News Sunday," differentiated Fox News's coverage of the '08 election and MSNBC's while speaking to reporters at the Television Critics…
Another billion-dollar taxpayer bailout is on the horizon with the trouble at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but you won’t find much criticism of the mortgage giants on the networks despite…
So much of the liberal bias on cable networks is visual. It can impact the casual viwer on the treadmill at the gym watching with the audio off. Case in point is the video embedded at right from…
Politicians and pundits are crying about the economy, from oil prices to housing and the U.S. dollar. But they rarely pause to consider how we arrived at our situation, as they call for more…
Although media reports on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) usually contain majestic pictures of animals frolicking,
“[T]he 1.5-million-…
While reporting that a top U.S. diplomat will attend an international meeting with an Iranian negotiator on Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," correspondent Bill Plante suggested such a meeting…
During the 9:00 a.m. hour of the July 16 "MSNBC News Live," Richard Pompelio, a lawyer with the New Jersey Crime Victims' Law Center, appeared as a guest for a segment on a New…
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Times Bigger than Enron, and the Networks Didn't See It Coming
Cooking the books but protected…