Is Stephen Glass writing for The New Republic again?
An incendiary hit piece in The New Republic's July 23 issue smearing American troops in Iraq has provoked serious challenges to its…
Is Stephen Glass writing for The New Republic again?
An incendiary hit piece in The New Republic's July 23 issue smearing American troops in Iraq has provoked serious challenges to its…
Reporters Julian Sher and Benedict Carey of The New York Times got their hands on a leaked copy of a prison study suggesting a link between viewing child pornography and molesting children. The U…
The danger in Harry Potter isn't necessarily that the story lines revolve around magic. Even stories written by Christian authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis contain magic. It isn't…
The Barbarian is at the gates, and the Wall Street Journal newsroom is cowering in terror.
Conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy the Wall Street Journal, where the…
Earlier today, NewsBuster Noel Sheppard posted an item wondering how the media would cover the dismissal of Valerie Plame's civil lawsuit against V.P. Cheney and Scooter Libby.
We now have…
As journalism giant Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the Wall Street Journal's parent company gets closer and closer to reality, the number of hit pieces continues to grow. After all, the man behind…
As part of their week-long series of specials previewing their upcoming presidential debates with YouTube, CNN interviewed Dr. Mehmet Oz on Wednesday evening. Oz and host Paula Zahn discussed the…
Patrick Ishmael of "NewsBuckit" has an answer for Noel's question about how the media will cover the Plame case dismissal.
Ishmael found an initial reports first left out any mention of…
Eleven companies announced on July 18 to self-regulate and stop advertising to children under 12 in order to "help curb the child obesity problem."
But that wasn't enough for ABC "World News…
A federal judge has just dismissed Valerie Plame Wilson's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.
Will this be the lead story of this evening's newscasts? Regardless of the…
Author pictures, as you can obviously see, are back again. I had to rewrite the code from scratch and am testing them in the blog posts only.
If I feel confident in the code, user avatars…
Forget about carbon credits. SUV owners should just stop buying meat, and all their enviro-guilt will disappear faster than a Big Mac placed in front of former President Bill Clinton.
Such…
A Democratic presidential contender has hinted that he thinks some form of sex ed is appropriate for the nation's five-year olds.
I'm not exactly holding my breath for media outrage or at…
Say you write for or edit the metro section of a major metropolitan newspaper and you have a juicy story of a local ex-mayor who was arrested for running a brothel. It's right on the heels of…
It seems you can't swing a dead cat these days without whacking a Rupert Murdoch hit piece.
It must have been the New York Times' turn at the plate so to speak Thursday, and writer Richard…
The Business & Media Institute study "Fire & Ice," which examined media hysteria over global warming and global cooling in the past 100 years was cited by "The Rush Limbaugh Show" on July…
The blogoshpere is full of opinions, but this one you're paying for. Your tax dollars are going to National Public Radio Blogger and Morning Edition commentator John Ridley to…
The day after Independence Day, ABC reporter Terry Moran jotted down his thoughts on what makes some people become terrorists. His answer: freedom.
Rather than explore religious fanaticism…
Without much fanfare, NBC made an interesting announcement Tuesday: if Fred Thompson becomes a presidential candidate, his episodes of "Law and Order" will no longer be rerun.
As…
Jennifer Hunter, the Chicago Sun-Times writer and wife of Sun-Times publisher John Cruickshank, who wrote the recent story skewered here on Newsbusters revealing a supposed "staunch Republican"…
Say what you will of Dan Rather, but don't deny he's got a great sense of humor . . .
Most of Rather's pontifications on today's "Morning Joe" rolled off my back, as I flipped between his…