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…
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May 6th, 2006 12:21 PM | Noel Sheppard
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:
…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…