The New York Times might be thankful that it is not on trial with Dan Abrams serving as prosecutor. The impassioned argument he made against the journalistic value of the Times' lengthy account…
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August 25th, 2006 6:42 PM | Mark Finkelstein
August 25th, 2006 9:45 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
It’s been noted on this site before that David Shuster’s reports for MSNBC’s Hardball read like DNC press releases and last night was no exception as he attacked the administration on Katrina and…
August 24th, 2006 10:07 PM | Tim Graham
Mouthy liberal former sportscasters of a feather stick together. On Wednesday night's Countdown, former ESPN/Fox Sports anchor Keith Olbermann mocked the NFL for even considering renouncing their…
August 24th, 2006 4:44 PM | Scott Whitlock
Jonathan Alter, the Senior Editor of "Newsweek," last night told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that Democrats regaining power is the only way to hold the Bush administration accountable for its "…
August 23rd, 2006 3:01 PM | Scott Whitlock
"Countdown" host Keith Olbermann has questioned the timing of terror arrests and alert levels before, but on the August 22 edition of the MSNBC show, he indicated that democratic governments are…
August 20th, 2006 7:13 AM | Tim Graham
Well, MSNBC and Joe Scarborough have clearly figured out how to get their show mentioned in a liberal newspaper. Inside Sunday's Washington Post, reporter Peter Baker wrote an article about…
August 18th, 2006 3:05 PM | Scott Whitlock
Editors' note: This post is the beginning of a new NB feature, the weekly recap, a way of summarizing some of the hottest and most-read postings for the week.
It has been quite a diverse…
August 18th, 2006 3:02 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann bolstered the ruling by Federal Judge Ann Diggs Taylor against the Bush administration's controversial NSA spying program that involves…
August 17th, 2006 7:18 PM | Brad Wilmouth
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who never accuses Democrats of "playing politics" with Iraq and the war on terrorism, opting instead to join them in attacking President Bush, continued to slam Bush for "…
August 17th, 2006 1:32 PM | Tim Graham
From the comedy grapevine of Air America/>/> this morning, host Rachel Maddow (perhaps best known to talk-TV fans as a regular panelist on MSNBC's defunct Tucker Carlson "…
August 16th, 2006 11:06 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, while reporting on a recent Zogby poll which found that more Americans can name two of Snow White's dwarves than can name two of America's Supreme Court justices,…
August 16th, 2006 3:40 PM | Rachel Waters
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In the heat of the summer the media talked up a storm about global warming. And the most celebrated “expert” on the topic was a man who received a degree in…
August 16th, 2006 8:02 AM | Mark Finkelstein
We all remember how the MSM climbed all over Hillary Clinton when a few years ago she thought it was funny to claim that Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in St. Louis." Or more…
August 15th, 2006 2:27 AM | Brad Wilmouth
No matter which way the facts are pointing, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann can find a way to entertain an anti-Bush conspiracy theory on his Countdown show when the administration announces a terror…
August 14th, 2006 4:27 PM | Michael Rule
President Bush spoke at the State Department this afternoon, and on MSNBC’s "The Most" the graphic on screen was very telling of how the media have covered Hezbollah as it read:
"Breaking…
August 11th, 2006 12:50 PM | Open Thread
Your official Friday thread. Captionfest nominations, jokes, and whatever else.
UPDATE 14:38. From the not-exactly-media-bias department: MSNBC host Tucker Carlson is going to be on "…
August 11th, 2006 9:52 AM | Lyford Beverage
Shortly after 9:00 this morning, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer introduced a report on the potential political ramifications of plot that was foiled by the British yesterday. Her introduction was…
August 11th, 2006 6:58 AM | Brad Wilmouth
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a history of pushing conspiracy theories questioning whether the Bush administration has politically timed terror alerts or the release of terrorism-related stories for…
August 10th, 2006 3:45 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Made-in-the-UK Islamic radicals are trying to murder people - and it's the UK's fault for not doing a better job integrating them into society.
That was the view expressed on Fox News this…
August 10th, 2006 3:03 PM | Tom Johnson
Remember the facile, early-'90s notion that Michael Moore was the left wing's answer to Rush Limbaugh? True, both used humor to attack their political adversaries, and both were fat, and...well,…
August 9th, 2006 5:26 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Tucker Carlson stopped short of saying that some of his best friends are Jewish. But he did let us know that "I love Israel, I think it's a wonderful place, I support it completely, I support it…
August 8th, 2006 11:49 PM | Dave Pierre
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a prominent organization that has been combatting anti-Semitism and bigotry for 90 years, has issued a letter to MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. The letter…
August 8th, 2006 12:27 PM | Brent Baker
A week after a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey determined that a much higher percentage of Democrats than Republicans prefer to get their news from the broadcast networks, CNN…
August 8th, 2006 3:18 AM | Brad Wilmouth
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opened his August 7 Countdown show fretting about President Bush's unwillingness to delay his vacation, in contrast with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, during the…
August 7th, 2006 9:52 PM | Mark Finkelstein
You've all seen the TV commercial. A chubby woman has dragged a TV onto her front lawn and is watching the game with two girlfriends, when her dutiful husband comes home, schlepping grocery bags…