For those who think that sports broadcasts might offer a respite from liberal media spin . . . think again. At least when it comes to ESPN [an arm of ABC] the same ESPN that forced Rush Limbaugh…
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May 16th, 2006 6:50 AM | Mark Finkelstein
May 15th, 2006 11:25 PM | Brent Baker
Following President Bush's Monday night prime time address on immigration, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann ruminated to Chris Matthews: “Could he also be kind of back-dooring changes in the personnel totals…
May 12th, 2006 3:38 PM | Scott Whitlock
According to the May 12 Today show, if you’re an "ordinary" American, you should be afraid of the President’s "snooping." Using the time honored media tradition of word repetition, the NBC program…
May 11th, 2006 12:14 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann cited a Chicago Tribune piece by George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley as he explored whether, as with the Sopranos, you…
May 10th, 2006 1:07 PM | Matthew Sheffield
The runaway success of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel, founded on the premise that other news outlets are biased, is the source of much anger to lefty journalists. Most elite journalists I've…
May 9th, 2006 7:59 AM | Tim Graham
This week's edition of Newsweek was the first magazine to land in our mailbox yesterday, and it probably goes without saying that there is no major Patrick Kennedy coverage in it. In fact, there's…
May 8th, 2006 3:06 PM | Matthew Sheffield
CNN Headline News is set to debut a new show tonight (7pm ET) featuring radio host Glenn Beck. Already, liberals are up in arms about their sacred turf of non-FNC television being invaded,…
May 7th, 2006 5:01 PM | Tom Johnson
Left-wing author and columnist Eric Alterman (likely best known to NewsBusters readers for his book What Liberal Media?) blogs at MSNBC’s web site.…
May 6th, 2006 8:03 PM | Noel Sheppard
As reported by NewsBusters, MSNBC’s David Shuster declared on Monday’s “Hardball” that the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson negatively impacted America’s ability to track the development of…
May 6th, 2006 12:21 PM | Noel Sheppard
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Valerie Plame Wilson has been given over $2.5 million for her memoirs: “The book, whose working title is ‘Fair Game,’ is scheduled to be published in…
May 6th, 2006 6:02 AM | Tim Graham
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter has a new book out on the glories of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, so it's natural that he would be offered an interview on NBC's "Today" to promote it. On Tuesday morning,…
May 5th, 2006 12:50 AM | Brent Baker
Matching cable news networks interest during the day, two of the three broadcast networks (CBS and NBC, as well as MSNBC's Countdown) led Thursday night with how, at an event in Atlanta, a handful of…
May 4th, 2006 10:25 AM | Noel Sheppard
Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “Countdown,” host Keith Olbermann once again demonstrated why he is one of the most unprofessional and undisciplined journalists on television today. In his regular “Worst…
May 3rd, 2006 4:05 PM | Brent Bozell
A few weeks ago, the pollsters for NBC and The Wall Street Journal asked this question: "If thousands of immigrants in the U.S. do not show up for work on May 1st in protest of immigration policy…
May 3rd, 2006 2:18 PM | Matthew Sheffield
In the face of continuously poor ratings, liberal fans of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann are teaming up to support their hero.
The liberal group MoveOn.org got in on the act earlier this year as…
May 3rd, 2006 5:05 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann attacked the Bush administration over the leak of Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent, implying that the President has "done more to help…
May 3rd, 2006 2:19 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Fox News Channel was bound to succeed and did so even faster than its founding president Roger Ailes imagined.That's
just one of several interesting statements made in a recent interview
by Roger…
May 2nd, 2006 2:40 PM | Noel Sheppard
On Monday’s 5PM EST version of “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews and MSNBC correspondent David Shuster made a number of factual misrepresentations and suppositions involving Valerie Plame/Wilson and…
May 1st, 2006 11:49 PM | Greg Tinti
It seems to me that those that are in such an uproar over the leak of Valerie Plame's name and claim that it had a negative impact on our national security would be hesitant, to say the least,…
April 30th, 2006 12:40 PM | Joshua Sharf
Among the news items that the MSM ignored last week in favor of $2.82 gas (source: Barron's):
Retail store sales were up 4.1% year-over-year Same-store sales were up 5.1% year-over-year…April 30th, 2006 12:25 PM | Joshua Sharf
MSNBC's First Read continued its obsession with gas prices to the exclusion of, well, all other economic news this past week. A rough word-count of economic reporting on First Read's blog shows…
April 30th, 2006 11:48 AM | Joshua Sharf
Last week, we noted how MSNBC's First Read blog had reprinted the New York Daily News's misquote of a CNN poll about how oil prices were affecting families. In the poll, 23% said that gas prices…
April 28th, 2006 8:43 PM | Brent Baker
News broke on MSNBC at approximately 6:15pm EDT Friday night about the “arrest” of Rush Limbaugh on a “prescription fraud” charge. While the 7pm EDT Situation Room on CNN led with the “Breaking News…
April 26th, 2006 3:35 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann raised the term "new McCarthyism," as he accused the Bush administration of engaging in a "witch hunt" against leakers "it does not find…
April 25th, 2006 7:51 PM | Joshua Sharf
For a few days, it looked as though maybe MSNBC's First Read - written in part by NBC's political director Elizabeth Wilner - was being more careful with their poll numbers. Then, from today:
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