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June 13th, 2006 10:24 PM | Brent Baker
MSNBC Countdown fill-in host Brian Unger on Tuesday night asked David Shuster about how “your sources seemed to indicate that Karl Rove would be indicted. What happened?" In fact, back on May 8, as…
June 13th, 2006 8:18 PM | Brent Baker
In his Tuesday World News Tonight story on how top White House adviser Karl Rove will not be indicted for perjury in the Valerie Plame case, ABC’s Jake Tapper, in a rare instance of one journalist…
June 13th, 2006 11:14 AM | Clay Waters
Great moments in political prognostication, from the May 8 edition of MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.”…
June 12th, 2006 5:11 PM | Matthew Sheffield
MSNBC surprised everyone Monday with its announcement that the struggling channel will now be headed by an executive tag team of "Today" chief Phil Griffin and one of its own show hosts, Dan…
June 11th, 2006 9:55 PM | Noel Sheppard
Howard Kurtz this morning invited National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle, and Time’s Karen Tumulty on to discuss Ann Coulter’s new book, and her recent appearance on…
June 10th, 2006 3:22 PM | Tim Graham
On Friday, talk show host Laura Ingraham laughed at how MSNBC's Chris Matthews started demoting Zarqawi on Thursday night's "Hardball" as a minor-league threat, a "Triple-A" terrorist instead of a…
June 9th, 2006 11:50 AM | Greg Sheffield
If the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were "good" news, it's hard to imagine how the media could report much worse for "bad" news in Iraq.
Pretend Pundit has a good roundup of media…
June 8th, 2006 3:36 PM | Scott Whitlock
The MRC has been following the media’s reaction to the death of terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al Zarqawi all day. Much of the coverage has been focused on downplaying the significance of the…
June 8th, 2006 1:57 PM | Matthew Sheffield
With Rick Kaplan out at MSNBC (fired, just as I surmised), TV news observers are wondering what's next for the third-place cabler.
Word has it that Phil Griffin, a veep at the network's…
June 8th, 2006 1:00 PM | Scott Whitlock
In May of 2004, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi participated in the beheading of Nicholas Berg, a businessman working in Iraq. His father, Michael, emerged in the aftermath of that crime as an outspoken…
June 8th, 2006 12:35 AM | Brent Baker
At a time when left-wing Bush-haters regularly call the President a “liar” and a killer, ABC and NBC on Wednesday night pegged stories to the controversy over Ann Coulter’s criticism of the very…
June 7th, 2006 8:26 PM | Brent Baker
Rick Kaplan, who as reported earlier by Matthew Sheffield, announced his departure Wednesday from MSNBC where he’d run the least-watched cable news network as its President since February of 2004,…
June 7th, 2006 6:28 PM | Matthew Sheffield
MSNBC president Rick Kaplan has resigned from the network. TVNewser is on top of all the latest developments. Here's Kaplan's fairwell note:
I want to let you all know that today I'm leaving…
June 7th, 2006 6:21 AM | Tim Graham
Do you ever have one of those moments when you're reading the newspaper, and you feel like a reporter is just pulling a number out of the air? The way that reporters staunchly suggested without a…
June 6th, 2006 7:38 AM | Tim Graham
In the wake of the Ann Coulter interview on Tuesday's "Today" -- specifically the part where Matt Lauer simply couldn't believe Coulter's attacks on 9-11 widows channeling their grief into anti-…
June 5th, 2006 7:48 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Katie Couric's gone, but not to worry: the Today show hasn't missed a beat of liberal bias. This morning's topic was one near and dear to the MSM heart - gay marriage. And sure enough . . .
…June 2nd, 2006 1:56 PM | Tom Blumer
The good news: The unemployment rate of 4.6% is the lowest since June 2001.
The not-as-good news: The jobs increase of 75,000 is even smaller than indicated by May's figure alone, as March and…
May 31st, 2006 3:47 AM | Brent Baker
Citing one comment from a meteorologist quoted on the ninth page (78th paragraph) of a Washington Post Magazine story, remarks by an unnamed “pundit” and an unidentified “Fox News analyst,” as well…
May 22nd, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
Parade on the March Again, Downbeat on Economy Magazine leaves out strong economy, Bernankes forecast of soft landing…
May 22nd, 2006 9:37 AM | Noel Sheppard
Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and…
May 20th, 2006 2:19 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show on MSNBC, substitute host Brian Unger lived up to Keith Olbermann's habitually liberal standards as he portrayed recent efforts by Senate Republicans to declare English…
May 19th, 2006 9:32 PM | Brent Baker
Lisa Myers delivered an enterprising report, on Friday's NBC Nightly News, on how a Senate committee is investigating possible UN “oil-for-food” program misdeeds by former Senator Robert Torricelli.…
May 19th, 2006 12:54 AM | Brent Baker
All the networks got a few minutes Thursday afternoon with President Bush at an outdoor setting along the Arizona-Mexico border, and while ABC's Martha Raddatz, CBS's Bill Plante, CNN's Suzanne…
May 17th, 2006 9:46 PM | Brent Baker
On the six month anniversary of Democratic Congressman John Murtha's successful publicity stunt call for the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News jumped on the chance to highlight…
May 16th, 2006 8:29 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Let's be clear: the Da Vinci Code portrays Christianity as a fraud and the Roman Catholic Church as a murderous conspiracy. As Archbishop Angelo Amato, the number two official in the Vatican…