"Shovel your ratings" appears to be Morning Joe's subliminal message to Keith Olbermann today. With the latest ratings showing Rachel Maddow's new MSNBC show beating Olbermann's Countdown, the MJ…
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September 18th, 2008 7:59 AM | Mark Finkelstein
September 17th, 2008 10:31 PM | Colleen Raezler
As Culture and Media Institute Director Robert Knight has noted, the media are still presenting Obama campaign spin on the McCain sex ed ad as hard facts.
Last week the McCain campaign released an…
September 17th, 2008 6:05 PM | Robert Knight
On last night's Election Center, CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger and CNN Anchor Campbell Brown continued to promote the Obama talking point that John McCain…
September 17th, 2008 5:01 PM | Noel Sheppard
As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Tuesday of cutting in half her state's funding for the Special Olympics.
Not only is this…
September 17th, 2008 4:53 PM | Clay Waters
New York Times-MSNBC contributor John Harwood took his usual Tuesday afternoon slot on the cable network to interview Elisabeth Bumiller, the Times's lead reporter on the McCain campaign beat.…
September 17th, 2008 12:10 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Tuesday’s Countdown show, Keith Olbermann referred to Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly as "inducers to violence" as the MSNBC host, during the show's "Worst Person" segment, attacked…
September 17th, 2008 12:01 PM | Jeff Poor
The federal government’s intervention and prevention of the collapse of American International Group (AIG) represents an acceptance of Marxist philosophies, according to some CNBC analysts.…
September 17th, 2008 9:14 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Of course we all know that it's absolutely wrong and mean-spirited to suggest that anyone on the left could conceivably be unpatriotic [though an exception might be made for unrepentant terrorist…
September 17th, 2008 7:38 AM | Tim Graham
Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik argued on his blog at the Sun website on September 8 that MSNBC was "paying for its Olbermann sins." Zurawik wrote that while CNN was earning a reputation for…
September 17th, 2008 1:03 AM | Mike Bates
So what do you do if you're reporting on an MSNBC interview with McCain adviser Carly Fiorina in which she states that neither of the major party presidential candidates nor their vice presidential…
September 17th, 2008 12:00 AM | Colleen Raezler
Did the media tell the truth about the sex ed bill Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama supported in the Illinois state Senate? Was the bill aimed at protecting kids from sexual predators…
September 16th, 2008 4:15 PM | Tim Graham
Now, an update on the Palin tanning-bed "scandal." On Countdown on Monday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann tried to sound the alarm of elitism on the Governor's personal tanning bed – it's like an…
September 16th, 2008 12:00 AM | Kristen Fyfe
The words “miracle” or “divine intervention” are usually treated with skepticism by mainstream journalists, but when spoken by medical professionals, reporters apparently show deference. Such was…
September 15th, 2008 10:56 PM | Tim Graham
Will they call it Coppergate? Us Magazine, the home of incredible pro-Obama bias, has a new Palin scandal scoop:
Self-proclaimed "hockey mom" Sarah Palin had a private tanning bed installed…
September 15th, 2008 7:06 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews spent most of Monday night's "Hardball," laying out a blueprint for how Barack Obama can hit John McCain on the economy, as he compared the GOP presidential nominee to Herbert…
September 15th, 2008 10:22 AM | P.J. Gladnick
It's been less than a month since Barack Obama has picked Joe Biden to be his running mate and already there are calls from liberals, made desperate by Obama's plunge in the polls, to replace…
September 15th, 2008 4:03 AM | Warner Todd Huston
You... yes, you reading this right now. McClatchy wants you to know you are mean to them, your mistrust of them is merely egged on by a sly political tactic, and you fall for it because you only…
September 12th, 2008 5:22 PM | Jeff Poor
Call this the meeting of the minds - should it ever happen, but the host of CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" has a message for MSNBC's "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann.
Lou Dobbs, a self-described…
September 12th, 2008 2:24 PM | Mark Finkelstein
H/t cgb1. Sarah Palin is sending the MSM around the bend. On MSNBC this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell provided perhaps the most blatant example yet of an MSMer openly admitting she doesn't want…
September 12th, 2008 2:02 PM | Brent Baker
Newsweek reporter Suzanne Smalley declared on MSNBC shortly before 1 PM EDT this afternoon that “over the past few weeks, the McCain campaign has really gotten down and dirty. A lot of their ads have…
September 11th, 2008 10:32 AM | NB Staff
MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the September 11 "Fox & Friends" to talk about media coverage of Sen. Barack Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig remark and on the…
September 11th, 2008 10:09 AM | Rusty Weiss
Keith Olbermann is a man of little integrity. Yet from a journalistic aspect, he does exude an air of intelligence, and is a very well spoken, albeit lame, excuse for an anchor.
Olbermann, who…
September 11th, 2008 9:10 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Make it a trio of mindreaders at NBC/MSNBC. As noted here, yesterday Howard Fineman and David Shuster went Carnac on us, emphatically declaring that Barack Obama didn't have Sarah Palin in mind…
September 10th, 2008 10:55 PM | Tim Graham
Brand-new prime-time MSNBC star Rachel Maddow told the San Francisco Chronicle last week that while Republicans wanted gay people steam-rollered "out of the country," she thought the Democrats…
September 10th, 2008 7:04 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews spent the entirety of Wednesday night's "Hardball," debunking the idea that Barack Obama was referring to Sarah Palin, when he made his "lipstick on a pig," remark as the MSNBC host…