Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello reported Friday that NBC is talking to Rosie O'Donnell again, but this time about putting her in prime time with a variety show, as if she was Carol Burnett…
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July 27th, 2008 8:33 PM | Brent Baker
Before moving on from “Barack Obama's Magical Media Tour” of the past week, a look at an Associated Press story so over the top that the Washington Posts's Howard Kurtz on Friday cited it as an…
July 27th, 2008 9:30 AM | Warner Todd Huston
I do believe that liberals in this country have their tin foils hats on way too tight these days. At least, it's easy to think that over the new national conspiracy theory that lefties are all…
July 26th, 2008 7:24 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Appearing on the Monday, July 21, Tonight Show, MSNBC host Chris Matthews defended his declaration from last February that a Barack Obama speech caused him to feel a "thrill going up my leg," and…
July 25th, 2008 8:02 PM | Noel Sheppard
In the lead up to the March 2003 Iraq invasion, CBS's Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein.
Now, less than four months before America goes to the polls to elect a new president, NBC's Brian…
July 25th, 2008 5:44 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
While many in the media rather enjoyed Obama’s speech in Berlin, particularly CBS which declared that it “confirmed his rock star status,” many conservatives felt that this…
July 25th, 2008 3:48 PM | Scott Whitlock
During a joint press conference between Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour bizarrely connected the Illinois senator with a 2005 comment by then-Interior…
July 25th, 2008 2:50 PM | Jeff Poor
If only Congress would get its act together, all our current energy woes would be solved.
That seemed to be CNN’s take on the energy bill in a July 25 segment. CNN…
July 25th, 2008 9:20 AM | NB Staff
Topics in today's show include: Fox News anchor Chris Wallace slamming MSNBC, a prison reality show, Lindsay Lohan's leggings and "Rock of Love" star Bret Michaels.
Watch the episode in the…
July 25th, 2008 7:27 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Are reporters in the business of reporting fact or rumor? Andrea Mitchell, for one, doesn't scruple to circulate "scuttlebutt" that if true would be deeply damaging to John McCain. Barack Obama'…
July 24th, 2008 2:03 PM | Jeff Poor
Don't blame Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., member of two influential banking committees - the Senate Finance Committee and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - for…
July 24th, 2008 1:47 PM | Ken Shepherd
Earlier this month, former senator and John McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm was widely excoriated for his remarks about America being a "nation of whiners," discouraged by negative media…
July 24th, 2008 12:46 PM | Jeff Poor
Perhaps bank runs are caused by stars aligning, or maybe they appear out of thin air. They certainly aren’t caused by powerful politicians publicly questioning a bank’s security, according to…
July 24th, 2008 12:27 PM | Scott Whitlock
"Good Morning America" news anchor Chris Cuomo launched an unlikely attack on liberal comedian Jon Stewart during Thursday's show. After discussing possible media bias against John McCain, and…
July 24th, 2008 11:49 AM | Paul Detrick
Catchphrases provide little context to media stories. So, when it comes to airlines and the phrase “nickel-and-dime,” .
The Biz Flog, the video blog…
July 24th, 2008 11:48 AM | Noel Sheppard
In another sign that the bloom might be coming off the Obama rose, the NBC "Nightly News" Wednesday reported some new poll results that not only suggest this election has suddenly become "a…
July 23rd, 2008 11:03 PM | Mark Koldys
Keith Olbermann is notorious for filching stories from the blue blogs, particularly ones that attack the eeevil Bill O'Reilly. But now his sloppy, unprofessional practices have come back to bite…
July 23rd, 2008 6:36 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Apparently it's not just the American press corp that has fallen head over heels for Barack Obama. On Wednesday night's "Hardball," NBC News' Martin Fletcher revealed the quote that "went rushing…
July 23rd, 2008 5:19 PM | Peter Sasso
...but not by name.
Keith Olbermann’s tired hour-long rehashing of liberal talking points on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” are legion and often unremarkable in and of themselves. Same noise…July 22nd, 2008 8:22 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
For years Chris Matthews has been proclaiming defeat in Iraq, on an almost nightly basis, on "Hardball" but on Tuesday night he finally admitted the success of the surge that John McCain supported…
July 22nd, 2008 2:12 AM | Brent Baker
More than three times as many Americans see a media tilt in favor of Democrat Barack Obama than toward Republican John McCain. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey released Monday, of 1,000 likely…
July 21st, 2008 9:50 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann used a sloppily worded statement by an 83-year-old decorated veteran, retired Colonel Bud Day, who volunteered for both World War II and the…
July 21st, 2008 3:31 PM | Jeff Poor
Even if you offer Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., what she’s been pushing for – taxpayer investments in “green” or renewable energy – she’s not going to budge in her opposition to opening…
July 21st, 2008 3:02 PM | Terry Ann Rendon
Just when I thought Obama lovin' was regulated to the political commentators and reporters at MSNBC, I was sadly mistaken. Even entertainment reporters need to show their support! June Sarpong,…
July 21st, 2008 3:03 AM | Warner Todd Huston
Nope, there isn't any leftward tilt at MSNBC, is there? How could there be when MSNBC was introducing a John McCain clip during a "news" story and instead of the video of John McCain, up popped…