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August 9th, 2008 6:58 PM | Brent Baker
Over a drawing of Michael Dukakis waving in front of Air Force One, the cover story for last Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine posed the question very few have ever wanted answered, but if such people…
August 8th, 2008 9:19 PM | Brent Baker
In the lead item on Friday's “Grapevine” segment on FNC's Special Report, anchor Bret Baier credited NewsBusters for documenting how Thursday night ABC's World News and NBC Nightly News stories,…
August 8th, 2008 2:43 PM | Matthew Balan
The Big Three networks continued to ignore the party affiliation of the now-incarcerated Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Friday morning, just as they had done in their evening news programs the…
August 8th, 2008 2:14 PM | Tom Blumer
Previous NewsBusters posts by Brent Baker and Rusty Weiss have noted the "strange" and nearly complete memory loss exhibited by the TV networks (with the expected exception of fair and balanced…
August 7th, 2008 10:01 PM | Brent Baker
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is hardly reticent about touting himself as a Democrat. After all, he's the Vice President of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors and in January was re-…
August 7th, 2008 7:03 PM | Rusty Weiss
To paraphrase a line from my good friend B. Spears, ‘Oops, the AP did it again!'
What journalistic crime has been committed this time? How about, selective memory when it comes to a…
July 31st, 2008 8:22 AM | Tom Blumer
August 1 Update: This post has been revised to reflect July's final death toll of 13, per icasualties.org (8 hostile and 5 non-hostile).
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July 28th, 2008 2:14 PM | Mark Finkelstein
May he live to be 120, but when Bob Shrum eventually goes to his reward, his epitaph could read "Here lies Shrum. He thought he was great. But his presidential record . . . was 0-8."After Shrum…
July 25th, 2008 6:58 PM | Tom Blumer
The Associated Press's Ed White used almost 700 words in his story (link is dynamic; story in form found at 5:04 p.m. is also here) about the latest developments relating to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick…
July 25th, 2008 12:00 PM | Scott Whitlock
Former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos firmly declared Barack Obama's trip a "clean success" on Friday's "Good Morning America." "You just cannot take that away from him," the "This Week"…
July 16th, 2008 3:09 PM | Kyle Drennen
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…
July 14th, 2008 2:52 PM | Seton Motley
The media real estate rule: location, location, location
Liberal ScandalsStrategically Located The Washington Post had two awful statements from Presidential campaign surrogates to work with…July 14th, 2008 11:31 AM | Brent Baker
With “WORST. WEEK. EVER?” on screen above the promise of “NO BIAS, NO BULL,” Friday's CNN Election Center show devoted a story to John McCain's bad week, but afterward, Mark Halperin, the former ABC…
July 11th, 2008 2:03 PM | Justin McCarthy
The United States is not in a recession. But the crew of the "Today" show does not care about the facts. On the July 11 edition, the NBC morning program focused on McCain adviser Phil Gramm’s "…
July 10th, 2008 10:14 PM | Brent Baker
Proving the old saw that a “gaffe” is when a politician stumbles into the truth, ABC's World News, which has showcased Americans whining about the inability to afford “joy rides” or breakfast, on…
July 10th, 2008 2:51 PM | Rachel Waters
“The scariest money mistake women make (it’s not shoes!),” or so warned the cover of Glamour’s July issue. The cover story “Welcome to my Mortgage Hell” left homeownership looking anything…
July 9th, 2008 9:25 PM | Mark Finkelstein
If there's one person in the NBC news stable who combines solid analytical skills with a commitment to fairness, it could be political director Chuck Todd. Evidence thereof comes from no less a…
July 9th, 2008 5:45 PM | Matthew Balan
You can’t make this stuff up. The online version of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Press reported on Wednesday that a homosexual man has filed lawsuits filed against two Christian publishers, since…
July 8th, 2008 3:32 PM | Kyle Drennen
Near the end of Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show" there was a taped segment of co-host Julie Chen talking to the executive producer of the CBS reality show "Big Brother," Allison Grodner, who previewed…
July 4th, 2008 1:16 AM | Amy Ridenour
Nearly two years ago on Newsbusters, I floated a proposal that newspapers require their editorial and other writers to police themselves for accuracy by requiring them to turn in footnotes with their…
July 2nd, 2008 7:32 AM | Tim Graham
Time columnist Joe Klein’s article in the magazine this week is titled "Kill Your Air Conditioner." Klein detests the quality of air-conditioned air, and thinks everyone in America ought to live…
June 28th, 2008 12:53 PM | Tom Blumer
Two June 23 Motor City newspaper reports -- one in the Detroit Free Press ("Group blasts subprime loans," by Amber Hunt), the other in the Detroit News ("ACORN focuses on vote," by Mike Martindale…
June 27th, 2008 12:37 PM | Jeff Poor
General Motors has been in business since 1897, but there are fears now propagated in the media that the longtime American icon faces an uncertain future.
Brian Williams raised…
June 27th, 2008 8:10 AM | Jeff Poor
General Motors has been an American fixture for 111 years, but some warn that might be ending. The Michigan automaker faces tough obstacles ahead critical to its survival.
Brian…
June 26th, 2008 5:00 PM | Kyle Drennen
On Wednesday’s CBS "Evening News," political analyst Jeff Greenfield suggested that Barack Obama was becoming more moderate: "...a relentless march to the center. He's determined not to be defined…