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…
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July 17th, 2008 12:47 AM | Brad Wilmouth
July 16th, 2008 6:12 PM | Terry Ann Rendon
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…
July 14th, 2008 11:16 AM | NB Staff
Tony Snow, who we sadly learned passed away Saturday morning after a battle with cancer, accepted the second annual "William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence" at the MRC's 2008…
July 4th, 2008 1:58 PM | Noel Sheppard
Whether or not you like her program on Fox News, you gotta love Greta Van Susteren's spunk.
After all, even though it's Independence Day, the host of "On the Record" has taken the time to…
July 4th, 2008 6:51 AM | Mark Finkelstein
New chapter in the lack-of-love fest between Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow. As noted here and here, the pair have clashed in the past. The GOP-congressman-turned-MSNBC-host and the Air…
July 3rd, 2008 3:31 PM | Matthew Balan
Thursday’s "Today Show" gave yet another demonstration that the mainstream media can’t get over the success of Rush Limbaugh. NBC correspondent Michael Okwu, reporting on Limbaugh’s new contract,…
July 3rd, 2008 10:52 AM | D. S. Hube
What do you do when you just can't win your ratings time slot? Answer: Cook the books. That's what MSNBC tried to do regarding "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and the 5:00pm slot:
CNN and Fox…
July 3rd, 2008 8:35 AM | Tim Graham
Former ABC and CNN anchor Aaron Brown granted an interview to TV Guide about his new gig as host of the PBS foreign-affairs chronicle Wide Angle. He told them today's journalism students were…
July 1st, 2008 1:38 PM | Clay Waters
The front page of Saturday's New York Times Arts section featured Jacques Steinberg's "Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In."
The Times clearly adores this theme, and is constantly checking…
June 28th, 2008 2:20 PM | Noel Sheppard
An extraordinary thing happened on Friday's "Countdown": host Keith Olbermann actually included a Democrat Congressman in his "Worst Person in the World" segment.
Of course, it would have…
June 28th, 2008 11:09 AM | Noel Sheppard
Just two weeks after getting into a brouhaha with Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has found himself in a tussle with one of the chairmen of the Netroots, Salon's Glenn…
June 26th, 2008 3:37 PM | Jeff Poor
It may be less efficient and more intrusive than other forms of alternative energy, but harnessing the power of wind is “every bit as serious” as other options, according to MSNBC “Countdown…
June 25th, 2008 9:41 AM | Brent Baker
Peter Boyer's profile of Keith Olbermann in the June 23 New Yorker magazine, “One Angry Man,” contained a bunch of noteworthy revelations, such as: ♦ Olbermann wanted to be more vulgar in his “shut…
June 24th, 2008 12:08 PM | Scott Whitlock
Former top Democratic aide-turned ABC journalist George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday spun Barack Obama's repeated exclusions of Muslims as a way to "combat this issue" that he is a follower of Islam…
June 20th, 2008 2:52 PM | Noel Sheppard
Although MSNBC and NBC officials are flatly denying the allegations, the New York Post on Friday reported that Keith Olbermann is threatening to quit if he's not promoted to host "Meet the Press…
June 20th, 2008 2:42 PM | Tim Graham
In 1992, reporters like Joe Klein and Sidney Blumenthal were mocked as Clinton Conformity Cops, telling other journalists that the goal of electing Bill Clinton was too important to create any…
June 20th, 2008 10:39 AM | Noel Sheppard
Almost two years ago, NewsBusters wondered when media would begin reporting Enron's ties to higher oil and gas prices.
Recently, we've gotten our answer: when it could be blamed on the…
June 18th, 2008 1:05 AM | Brad Wilmouth
When Georgia Republicans ran an ad against former Senator Max Cleland, which included a photograph of Osama bin Laden, attacking the Democratic Senator's numerous votes to apply labor union rules…
June 17th, 2008 5:01 PM | Justin McCarthy
Does Barbara Walters refrain from publicly airing her personal opinions? The veteran journalist said just that on the June 17 "View," though the evidence does not back her up. Discussing the death…
June 16th, 2008 11:00 PM | Brent Baker
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Monday evening rued that Afghanistan “is too often called the other war or perhaps even the forgotten war” when “in the month of May, for the first time ever, American…
June 16th, 2008 10:20 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Don't feel bad for Geraldine Ferraro. Looks like the Hillary supporter who got into hot water back in March for claiming Obama's race was an advantage has landed on her feet, scoring a gig with…
June 15th, 2008 5:10 PM | P.J. Gladnick
A profile of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann by Peter J. Boyer in the current edition of the New Yorker gives us a good clue as to why the man known for his laughable impressions of Edward R. Murrow is…
June 14th, 2008 1:32 PM | Noel Sheppard
It seems not everyone in the liberal blogosphere is smitten with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
Take for example Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar who on Thursday called out the insufferably…
June 14th, 2008 1:10 PM | John Stephenson
Watch this video where Chris Matthews displays his utter lack of class with Keith Olbermann. While almost every other journalist and blogger on both sides of the political spectrum are giving…
June 14th, 2008 10:44 AM | NB Staff
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: who will replace Tim Russert as NBC's Washington bureau chief and "Meet the Press" moderator?
As you might imagine, the Kossacks…