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April 24th, 2006 10:10 PM | Brent Baker
NBC's Andrea Mitchell complained Monday night, on MSNBC's Countdown, about how the CIA's firing of a staffer ostensibly for leaking top secret information to a reporter, will mean CIA officials will…
April 23rd, 2006 4:43 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Does Wikipedia, the online community encyclopedia that anyone can edit, have a liberal political bias? Over at PBS's MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser hosts a fascinating debate on the subject between…
April 22nd, 2006 1:01 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann plugged the Rolling Stone cover story by historian Sean Wilentz which argued that George W. Bush may be the worst President ever, citing the…
April 21st, 2006 10:22 PM | Brent Baker
At least one leading mainstream journalists isn't too happy about the revelation Friday that on Thursday the CIA fired an official who admitted being the leaker of top secret information about CIA…
April 21st, 2006 12:19 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Something wild happens on Hardball whenever Chris Matthews ventures outdoors. It was during an outdoor panel when Zell Miller challenged Chris to a duel and last night outside the MSNBC studios …
April 21st, 2006 1:09 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann highlighted a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll which shows President Bush's approval rating "plummeting even further" and, as the Countdown host…
April 20th, 2006 8:09 PM | Noel Sheppard
The following is an op-ed of a previous NewsBusters piece entitled "Media Amnesia: Gen. Zinni Briefed Clinton Administration on Secret Iraq War Plan."
Have you ever considered the peculiar…
April 20th, 2006 10:32 AM | Greg Sheffield
Tucker Carlson is trying something new to possibly boost ratings for his MSNBC show "The Situation." He's losing his trademark bowtie. The New York Post reported last week:
THIS is the…
April 20th, 2006 12:17 AM | Brent Baker
Citing reports that the White House might select Tony Snow to replace Scott McClellan as Press Secretary, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday night ridiculed the journalistic integrity of Snow and…
April 19th, 2006 7:21 AM | Tim Graham
In Wednesday's Washington Post, media reporter Howard Kurtz profiled Fox News Channel's Brit Hume with the headline "Moving to the Right: Brit Hume's Path Took Him From Liberal Outsider to The Low…
April 18th, 2006 11:24 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On his Countdown show Tuesday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann hyped an article posted on the Vanity Fair Web site, by Washington Post and Time magazine veteran Carl Bernstein, which called for…
April 18th, 2006 2:38 PM | Ian Schwartz
Continuing his tirade again FOX News' Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown, did a segment about the host of The O'Reilly Factor -- I know, what a surprise -- and his rating on…
April 18th, 2006 5:22 AM | Brent Baker
The annual Pulitzer Prize awards announced Monday night, by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, rewarded Washington Post and New York Times reporters who exposed -- and thus…
April 17th, 2006 8:15 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Darn it, when the MSM have a Republican in their sights, shouldn't he have the good grace to sit there and take it until he's hounded from office? That would appear to be NBC's operative…
April 13th, 2006 4:19 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann led with the current controversy about President Bush and other administration officials claiming they had found biological weapons labs in…
April 12th, 2006 10:10 PM | Brent Baker
Forget the lack of evidence, we have our story of presidential duplicity and we're sticking with it. Picking up on a front page Washington Post story about how back in May of 2003 President Bush…
April 10th, 2006 5:50 AM | Greg Sheffield
It should surprise no one that the Democrat won the fictional presidential race on "The West Wing," which is set to be cancelled. But the show's writers insist it has nothing to do with the fact that…
April 10th, 2006 12:09 AM | Brent Baker
Erik Sorenson, a former CBS and MSNBC news executive, foresees a “challenge” ahead for Meredith Vieira establishing her credibility on NBC's Today in the face of her anti-war activism and so she'll…
April 9th, 2006 3:15 PM | Brent Baker
On this weekend's McLaughlin Group, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift -- referring the President Bush's September 2003 insistence, in the wake of the Valerie Plame controversy, that “I don't know of anybody…
April 7th, 2006 1:07 PM | Tim Graham
As the Meredith Vieira incident shows us, network anchors and talk show hosts can display their biases off the air by where they go and speak...or march. At the tail end of "Hardball" Thursday…
April 5th, 2006 8:39 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Is there something in the water at NBC/MSNBC? Laughing gas in the ventilation system, perhaps? Earlier today, I posted the photo below, showing Matt Lauer dissolving in laughter on this morning's…
April 5th, 2006 2:49 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On last night's Hardball MSNBC's David Shuster's piece on Tom DeLays sounded as if it was approved by the DNC Communications Department before it hit the airwaves. Okay seriously now, other than…
April 5th, 2006 10:48 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Could NewsBusters be Matt Lauer's guilty pleasure?
Have a look at the two screen captures. The first depicts Pat Buchanan's Today show appearance of March 24th. You'll note that NBC sought…
April 4th, 2006 10:50 PM | Tim Graham
Flipping stations on my radio dial on the drive home, I tried WTWP (the new Washington Post Radio outlet in D.C.), and their new afternoon-drive host Bob Kur, formerly of NBC News, invited Keith…
April 4th, 2006 8:42 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Be the death literal or figurative, in recent days Democrats and their MSM claque have demonstrated a ghoulish penchant for dancing on the graves of their political opponents. As documented here…