Ever wonder how political "facts" become facts? How does a story go from a mere unsubstantiated report to universal truth? Often, it happens with a catchy headline in a report that states as "fact…
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May 12th, 2009 8:02 AM | Warner Todd Huston
May 12th, 2009 7:23 AM | Warner Todd Huston
The L.A. Times is reporting that CNN's star talker Anderson Cooper has seen his ratings in a steady decline all year. It's so bad that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is starting to gain on Cooper's…
May 11th, 2009 12:18 PM | Jeff Poor
You might expect this sort of simple revelation from the New York Times reporting, but a May 11 article declared that when Chevron hires a former reporter to tell the company's side of the story,…
May 11th, 2009 12:16 PM | Matthew Balan
On CNN’s Sunday Morning program, anchor John King revealed that he thought comedian Wanda Sykes’ barb at Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was in poor taste: “You know, I don’t…
May 10th, 2009 10:59 AM | Noel Sheppard
Time's Joe Klein on Sunday accused conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh of "delivering misinformation, lies to a large audience in America."
Such was said during quite a debate between…
May 9th, 2009 3:30 PM | NB Staff
On Monday, NewsBuster Warner Todd Huston revealed Oprah.com and CNN's statistically unsupported theory that women are leaving men for other women.
On Saturday, "Fox News Watch" shared this bizarre…
May 9th, 2009 3:01 PM | Tim Graham
The White House Correspondents Dinner has become quite an occasion for Hollywood’s flightiest celebrities to bring their famous (or merely semi-famous) faces to the nation’s capital. WHC Insider…
May 8th, 2009 6:41 PM | Matthew Balan
Two Catholic priests who appeared as guests during back-to-back segments on Thursday’s No Bias, No Bull program were treated noticeably differently by CNN’s on-air personalities. Father Michael…
May 8th, 2009 1:36 PM | Julia A. Seymour
Are you gonna eat that? According to CNN host Rick Sanchez and one of his May 7 guests, your answer is being decided for you by food industry "manipulation."
"Here's a question that you…
May 8th, 2009 11:50 AM | Julia A. Seymour
Are you gonna eat that? According to CNN host Rick Sanchez and one of his May 7 guests, your answer is being decided for you by food industry “manipulation.”
“Here’s a question that…
May 8th, 2009 2:02 AM | Brent Baker
In his Wednesday night “Media Mash” segment, FNC's Sean Hannity picked up on a Tuesday night NewsBusters post, “Third CNN Staffer Joins Obama's Team, As Does ABC Vet; Revolving Door Up to Ten,” about…
May 7th, 2009 7:20 PM | Matthew Balan
Correspondent Jim Acosta, “carrying the CNN flag” on the island of Cuba, filed several reports for the American Morning program during the first week of May which slanted favorably towards an end to…
May 7th, 2009 6:16 PM | Ken Shepherd
Ted Turner's picture really should appear in the dictionary for the entry "useful idiot."
The CNN founder -- who has previously called North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il "sincere" and "non-…
May 7th, 2009 12:57 PM | Mike Bates
On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez focused on enhanced interrogation methods, a favorite topic of his. He spoke with Jane Mayer, author of "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the…
May 6th, 2009 2:36 PM | Ken Shepherd
After the hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama, we often heard from the mainstream media about how shipping executive companies don't want to arm their civilian crews for fear of an escalation of…
May 6th, 2009 1:10 PM | Jeff Poor
Strike while the iron is hot from the flames of populism. That mixed metaphor might explain the timing of the Obama administration’s announcement of anti-corporate changes he would like to make to…
May 6th, 2009 11:57 AM | Colleen Raezler
Newsflash: ABC's "The View" leans left.
Barbara Walters, host of the daytime chat-fest revealed to CNN's Anderson Cooper on May 1 that "in general, [the] panel, with the exception of…
May 6th, 2009 10:31 AM | Noel Sheppard
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has once again bashed conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as well as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin while going a step further this time by piling on the…
May 6th, 2009 1:11 AM | Brent Baker
Following the path of CNN Middle East correspondent Aneesh Raman and producer Kate Albright-Hanna, who both jumped aboard the Obama campaign last year, senior political producer Sasha Johnson this…
May 5th, 2009 10:25 PM | Brent Bozell
When Sen. Arlen Specter ran in a contentious primary against conservative congressman Pat Toomey in 2004, his slogan was "Courage, Clout, Conviction." The other day, when Specter’s pollster…
May 5th, 2009 3:22 PM | Clay Waters
The media's pro-Obama love affair is so obvious, even overdramatic New York Times liberal columnist Frank Rich thinks his colleages are overdoing it. In his latest Sunday column, "Enough With the…
May 5th, 2009 2:32 PM | Tim Graham
As the networks continue to pound away at their pet theory that social conservatism will make the Republican Party extinct, suggesting that the last Republican in New England should turn out the…
May 5th, 2009 12:46 AM | Brent Baker
In a brief item Monday evening about Jack Kemp's passing, the NBC Nightly News delivered an obit on Kemp's life, but while Brian Williams didn't find room in his 37-second update to mention how Kemp…
May 4th, 2009 4:03 AM | Warner Todd Huston
Oprah.com and CNN have decided that there is a growing "new" trend in American sexual relations. The two Internet giants have teamed up and have decided that increasingly "women are leaving men…
May 3rd, 2009 11:13 AM | Noel Sheppard
I want my, I want my MSNBC!
So screamed Daily Kos readers Saturday in a post destined to fill your Sunday morning with a much-needed chuckle:
In the past few weeks, it has come to my…