Wall Street is definitely watching all those polls the networks keep touting.
CNBC's Erin Burnett told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Wall Street was predicting that Sen. Barack Obama…
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November 3rd, 2008 11:34 AM | Paul Detrick
November 2nd, 2008 9:50 AM | Noel Sheppard
"Saturday Night Live" absolutely skewered MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last night accurately depicting the "Countdown" host as a pompous, dishonest buffoon who regularly takes things completely out of…
November 1st, 2008 11:51 AM | Rich Noyes
Yes, the media are rooting for Barack Obama. Two studies out in the past couple of days show that it’s not just conservatives who see a strong tilt by journalists in favor of the Democrats: A…
October 31st, 2008 11:42 PM | Tom Blumer
Busybody Keith Olbermann couldn't wait to see how Saturday Night Live was going to portray him. So, says Politico.com's Michael Calderone, he apparently breached the show's (I thought) tight…
October 31st, 2008 9:22 PM | Brent Baker
Just as he did in two earlier interviews with Barack Obama when he held up magazine covers and asked Obama to glow in the moment, in an excerpt from this week's session with Obama aired on Friday's…
October 31st, 2008 4:49 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Frank Rich charged that it looks "morally bad" and "idiotic" that Republicans have not elected a black candidate to federal office…
October 31st, 2008 2:15 PM | Jack Coleman
By the second half of Rachel Maddow's interview with Barack Obama last night on MSNBC, the question Maddow kept avoiding became conspicious.
Surely the earnest MSNBC cable host would ask…
October 30th, 2008 2:15 PM | Rich Noyes
As longtime NewsBusters readers are painfully aware, the supposedly objective news media have showered Barack Obama with fawning press coverage throughout his campaign for the White House. (That,…
October 30th, 2008 9:52 AM | Jack Coleman
How about that, some foreigners are apparently less equal than others when it comes to their preferences in the US presidential campaign.That's the smarmy impression conveyed by Air America Radio…
October 29th, 2008 9:43 PM | Brent Baker
Chris Matthews came aboard the shortened Countdown after MSNBC, unlike FNC and CNN, aired the Obama campaign's half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night, and oozed over how “it was romance. It was…
October 29th, 2008 8:57 PM | Brent Baker
Suggesting Brian Williams and the producers of NBC Nightly News assume a significant portion of their viewership is pretty dumb, the newscast began a story about how, as Williams fretted, “number of…
October 29th, 2008 3:20 PM | Jeff Poor
What do you get when you combine critique from a left-wing storefront and an off-base conclusion with a dose of overbearing hyperbole? A three-minute segment on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith…
October 29th, 2008 7:04 AM | Tim Graham
We missed one spot where NBC anchorman Brian Williams whined about having to wait 55 days for an interview with Sarah Palin, an October 22 appearance on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show. When Maddow…
October 28th, 2008 8:58 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR—a self-described progressive media watch group—now a professor of independent media at Ithaca College, invited me to address his class of student bloggers this afternoon…
October 28th, 2008 6:30 PM | Scott Whitlock
Editor at large of Time magazine Mark Halperin appeared on Tuesday's edition of "Morning Joe" and admitted "mistakes have been made" in regards to the media's coverage of Barack Obama and that "…
October 28th, 2008 4:33 PM | Jack Coleman
Air America Radio host Rachel Maddow condemned a McCain ad critical of Obama while refusing to play the ad -- lest any of her listeners conclude it wasn't as offensive as Maddow claimed.
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October 28th, 2008 9:58 AM | Noel Sheppard
Can you imagine a famous, former-President Clinton supporting, liberal Hollywood producer calling MSNBC "completely out of control" and saying she'd "prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox…
October 28th, 2008 7:18 AM | Jeff Poor
The Obama campaign has decided to employ the shoot-the-messenger approach in response to comments he made about claims his positions are socialist. The quotes come from a 2001 Chicago Public…
October 27th, 2008 4:01 PM | Jack Coleman
An unintentionally hilarious assertion was made by Alaska State Senator Hollis French on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC cable show Friday night. Maddow and French were discussing the so-called Troopergate…
October 27th, 2008 8:33 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Imagine that a week before a presidential election, a radio interview surfaced in which the Republican candidate had called for, say, the abolition of Social Security. Now imagine the broadcast…
October 26th, 2008 11:09 AM | NB Staff
Are we really at midseason? I guess so.
Here's Joe Concha's views of week eight:
Pigskins and Politics: Week 8Joe Concha
Can you believe it? We're already at the halfway point of…
October 25th, 2008 7:31 PM | Noel Sheppard
The Democrat Party's decisive move to the left in recent years has created a "fierce new anger among many liberal[s]" similar to what is present in "the left-wing blogosphere and MSNBC's evening…
October 25th, 2008 10:25 AM | Warner Todd Huston
Well, that mean ol' Sarah Palin ruined everything for the St. Louis Blues hockey team, darn it all. That's right the media's newest Cheney replacement must have been planning this monstrous attack…
October 24th, 2008 9:17 PM | Brent Baker
Friday's NBC Nightly News carried the third excerpt from Brian Williams' time Wednesday with John McCain and Sarah Palin and, unlike his challenging approach to basic McCain-Palin premises in…
October 23rd, 2008 9:22 PM | Brent Baker
In the second excerpt of his interview with John McCain and Sarah Palin, NBC's Brian Williams continued, for the second night, to challenge the premises of the McCain-Palin campaign as he pushed back…