On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, as host Howard Kurtz led a discussion on media coverage of Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel’s ethical problems, guest Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News…
The "Saturday Night Live" team last evening mocked CNN and many of its most prominent personalities, in particular, Wolf Blitzer.
"Such an exciting name for such a boring man," said actor…
In one of those segments so beloved by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Tuesday's Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News featured Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir. In the midst of…
Huffington Post writer and White House adviser Eboo Patel asked who deserves to be called something greater than an “American patriot?” Even a “faith hero” – something Patel only bestows upon the…
The second annual "Shorty Awards" for best Twitter pages were handed out on Wednesday evening, funded by the Old Media money of the John S, and James L. Knight Foundation. CNN anchor Rick Sanchez…
More and more it's becoming clear that when Keith Olbermann takes a night off from "Countdown," and Lawrence O'Donnell fills in for him, viewers are getting the same hyperpartisan, hate-filled…
A business partly responsible for the economic downturn requested another $15.3 billion bailout last week.
It wasn’t one of the news media’s usual suspects, like the banks or…
Some faulty memes get repeated so often they get burned in the media's collective memory as fact, even though they are myth. Perhaps the most notable example of that in 2009 was the myth that the…
John Roberts and Kiran Chetry omitted mentioning that Annabel Park, the founder of the so-called Coffee Party, worked as a volunteer for President Barack Obama's presidential campaign, during an…
Mark Finkelstein noticed how CNN found Chicago single mother Madonna Alvarez to suggest Sen. Jim Bunning was going to have her living in a cardboard box. CNN surely found this from an even more…
"Campbell Brown . . . the only non-partisan cable news anchor at 8 pm." -- CNN description of Campbell Brown "Non-partisan": right. The hit that Brown, with help from reporter Dana…
"Jim Bunning is doing all of us a favor," Time's Joe Klein tells his Swampland blog readers in a post published last night.
Gee, Joe, is that because his stand is exposing the hypocrisy of…
"Myself and most of the people I know don't know the metric system or can't do the conversion charts very well."
So said CNN's Rick Sanchez Monday in response to criticism that he has taken…
Comedian Jon Stewart tore apart CNN's Rick Sanchez Monday leading one to believe the "Daily Show" host might be a NewsBusters reader.
On Saturday, we noticed a pathetic performance by…
Like ABC and CNN before them, the front page of Saturday’s New York Times brought a new visibility to the black pro-life movement. The headline was "To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial…
You'd think the money man behind an array of left wing organizations wouldn't need CNN to get out his message about the death and "bankruptcy" of free-market capitalism, but there was left-wing…
You have to feel bad for some journalists. They spend all day struggling to keep up the whole "disinterested reporter" act, only to be undone by their own Tweets. In a moment of weakness, maybe at…
In Monday’s New York Times, media reporters Bill Carter and Brian Stelter look at how declining ratings are affecting network news divisions, including ABC’s plan to cut staff by 400 through…
The whitewash-the-green-czar tour continued, as Van Jones found another comfortable powder-puff interview with another black leftist, this time with CNN analyst Roland Martin. On Martin's Sunday…