Now that times are difficult in Iraq, it’s easy for the media to claim they are simply reporting the bad news that is obvious to everyone. But how did networks such as CNN and MSNBC report more…
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December 20th, 2006 5:01 PM | Scott Whitlock
December 20th, 2006 12:00 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Interviewing Rick Davis, chairman of John McCain's presidential exploratory committee, on MSNBC at about 11:45 AM today, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell [NB file photo] demanded to know why McCain had…
December 19th, 2006 12:11 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown, viewers were treated to a special retrospective of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's series of "Special Comment" attacks on the Bush administration, featuring four of Olbermann's…
December 18th, 2006 11:58 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Today's starters
Media: Keith Olbermann wants a raise (despite still remaining in fourth-place). The champion of the people is gunning for $4 million a year. TV reporter Max Robbins says CNN…
December 17th, 2006 1:45 PM | Noel Sheppard
Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather was Howard Kurtz’s guest on Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” and the interview went in a lot of fascinating directions. One of the most telling parts was when Rather…
December 16th, 2006 11:28 AM | Noel Sheppard
Remember when the media claimed that Sen. John Kerry “botched a joke” when he suggested that if you don’t do well in school, you’ll end up in the military? Or when Rep. Charlie Rangel said that…
December 15th, 2006 11:03 AM | Scott Whitlock
You might think the media, given the fact that they helped engineer a Democratic victory in the midterms, and that it’s almost Christmas (sorry, Holiday), would ease their assault on President…
December 14th, 2006 9:14 PM | Brent Baker
On Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams highlighted how, earlier in the day, First Lady Laura Bush “placed the blame squarely on the news media" for why so few support the President on…
December 14th, 2006 5:22 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews depicted Bush as a proverbial Nero, fiddling as Iraq burned and claimed Bush was led into war by "jugheaded neo-conservatives." Matthews also…
December 12th, 2006 9:32 PM | Mark Finkelstein
How out there is Eric Alterman? MSNBC, the network of Keith Olbermann, he who has accused Pres. Bush of fascism and called for his impeachment - fired him, presumably for being too extreme.
…December 12th, 2006 4:10 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Good-natured advice to reporters making headlines by exposing the ignorance of government officials on national security matters: keep your facts straight yourselves.
There's been a rash of…
December 12th, 2006 12:46 PM | Brian Fitzpatrick
Did you know that the War on Christmas, the misbegotten movement to ban nativity scenes at City Hall and replace “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays,” is in full retreat? The media are turning…
December 11th, 2006 11:09 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown during the show's regular "Oddball" segment, while reporting on the controversial decision of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport to remove its Christmas trees from public view rather…
December 9th, 2006 2:00 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann again discussed whether President Bush is the "worst ever" President, inspired by comments from Republican Senator Gordon Smith that leaving…
December 8th, 2006 11:02 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
MSNBC's David Shuster routinely spews the typical liberal spin his boss, Chris Matthews, likes to hear but sometimes Shuster goes a step beyond to uttering statements that make the viewer ask, "…
December 7th, 2006 11:03 PM | Tim Graham
Editors at the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post each used the reverential term "wisdom" to define the findings of the Baker-Hamilton commission -- suggesting that the current drift of…
December 7th, 2006 1:57 PM | Noel Sheppard
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, will certainly go down in history as the day the media used the release of a bipartisan report on the Iraq war as a way to thoroughly lambaste the president of the…
December 6th, 2006 10:15 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reported the recent deaths of 10 American troops in Iraq by commenting that they had "paid the ultimate price for President Bush's execution…
December 6th, 2006 2:35 PM | Al Brown
The ink is barely dry on the Iraq Study Group's report and the mainstream media has already decided that the "bipartisan consensus" is gospel.
Just in case any neanderthals who might question this…
December 6th, 2006 12:31 AM | Brad Wilmouth
You know you're liberal if even a liberal media watchdog group calls you liberal -- that is, unless you're MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. While Olbermann denies displaying a liberal bias on his show,…
December 5th, 2006 10:53 PM | Tim Graham
It's understood there's a professional partnership between Newsweek and NBC/MSNBC, but it really seemed like the crew at Today on Tuesday were pounding consistently on the…
December 5th, 2006 9:50 PM | Brad Wilmouth
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who regularly uses his Countdown show to ridicule President Bush, on Tuesday finally included the President in his list of nominees for "Worst Person in the World." For…
December 5th, 2006 7:45 PM | Mark Finkelstein
No Chris Matthews, no problem. The regular host of MSNBC's Hardball might be taking a post-election break, but the show hasn't missed a beat when it comes to liberal bias. We detailed here the…
December 5th, 2006 12:11 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
In a special edition of MSNBC's Hardball College Tour former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went on diatribes against the President's war policy, comparing it to Vietnam, praised "rock star"…
December 5th, 2006 10:25 AM | Noel Sheppard
For a man that is averaging a paltry 600,000 viewers an evening, he sure is full of…himself. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sat down with the folks from Radar Online for an interview published Monday (…