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October 26th, 2005 2:00 PM |
Because we think that higher oil prices caused double-digit
inflation in the 1970s, we fear it could happen again, Newsweek
contributing editor Robert J.…
October 26th, 2005 12:53 PM | Megan McCormack
During an appearance on CNN's American Morning, Al Franken repeated once more his "joke" that Karl Rove and Lewis Libby will "definitely be executed" for their involvement in the CIA leak…
October 25th, 2005 2:35 PM | Greg Sheffield
Earlier today, CNN.com had a headline on its front page about the 78 percent of Iraqis who voted in support of the constitution. Apparently not wanting to appear pro-Bush, that headline has been…
October 24th, 2005 8:32 PM | Dan Gainor
The way to the media’s heart is to take jabs at Wal-Mart – JibJabs, that is. JibJab.com, the maker of several popular political videos, unleashed an assault on the nation’s biggest retailer that…
October 24th, 2005 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
But the video isnt about fun a fact obvious to
anyone who watched the audience reaction when it debuted October 13
on the Jay Leno Show. The video showed to an…
October 24th, 2005 10:44 AM | Rich Noyes
For weeks now, the media have breathlessly hyped the possibility that presidential advisor Karl Rove might be indicted by the grand jury looking into the leak of CIA employee Valerie Plame’s…
October 24th, 2005 9:32 AM | Noel Sheppard
It seems to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it? No, not Christmas ads on TV, but the annual media festival of gloom and doom surrounding holiday-related retail sales. This year, it…
October 24th, 2005 4:40 AM | Brent Baker
Declaring “it's not far-fetched,” movie director Spike Lee affirmed on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, that he believes Louis Farakhan’s allegation that a levee was destroyed in New…
October 22nd, 2005 8:52 PM | Dave Pierre
In an October 19, 2005, article, veteran Associated Press reporter Tom Raum claimed (emphasis added),
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's CIA-leak inquiry is focusing attention on what…
October 22nd, 2005 10:18 AM | Tim Graham
And we thought PBS films were bad. David’s Medienkritik reports the German government has subsidized a sympathetic film about Palestinian suicide bombers."Paradise Now" tells the story of two…
October 21st, 2005 2:00 PM | Noel Sheppard
It seems to come earlier and earlier every year, doesnt it? No, not
Christmas ads on TV, but the annual media festival of gloom and doom
surrounding…
October 20th, 2005 6:08 PM | Dan Gainor
While the House of Representatives was getting serious about legal reform, CNN was calling it “silly” and other TV news outlets ignored it.The House passed the “cheeseburger bill” October 19 – a…
October 20th, 2005 2:00 PM | R. Warren Anderson
Serwers failure to mention the state of the legal system and the
necessity for reform was not surprising. The Business & Media Institute
study "Media…
October 17th, 2005 9:43 PM | Brent Baker
CNN's Jack Cafferty, on Monday afternoon's The Situation Room, took a cheap shot at Karl Rove's weight and expressed delight in the possibility Rove will be indicted. Just past 3pm EDT, Cafferty…
October 17th, 2005 12:22 PM | Greg Sheffield
The Washington Post has an article about the deteriorating relationship between White House press secretary Scott McClellan and the reporters who cover the White House.
CBS correspondent John…
October 15th, 2005 1:58 PM | Mithridate Ombud
CNN runs an AP article on King Midas, a 300-pound sea turtle from Louisiana. In one of the photo captions it says King Midas is "in his watery home with other fish at the aquarium in New Orleans…
October 15th, 2005 1:01 PM | Brent Baker
A follow-up, with Friday morning coverage, to the Thursday night NewsBusters posting, “Shocked, Just Shocked Network Reporters Hype 'Staged’ Bush Event with Troops,” which detailed how the NBC…
October 14th, 2005 5:49 PM | Brent Baker
Just before 5pm EDT Friday, during The Situation Room's review of blog postings, CNN's Jacki Schechner recited examples of blog sites critical of the media's hyping of the so-called “staged” live…
October 14th, 2005 12:06 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Mirroring the same evening's NBC Nightly News (see earlier NewsBusters item), on Thursday night's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann led with the rehearsed meeting between President Bush and…
October 13th, 2005 9:04 PM | Brent Baker
Thursday's NBC Nightly News led, yes led, with how, as anchor Brian Williams put it, President Bush had that morning conducted “a staged event" via satellite with ten U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi…
October 13th, 2005 7:31 PM | Dan Gainor
For the media, Hurricane Katrina has been a story of zeroes – the more, the better. While reports before the hurricane’s landing incorrectly warned of tens of thousands of deaths, one prediction…
October 12th, 2005 9:35 PM | Tim Graham
Wednesday's edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show was devoted to a look "Inside the Lives of America's Poor," coming out of the spirit of the reporting from hurricane Katrina. Once again, Oprah was…
October 12th, 2005 12:01 AM | Noel Sheppard
People outside of Prince George’s County, Maryland might not be aware of it, but the Pentagon launched a new cable channel recently, and CNN is…
October 10th, 2005 7:17 AM | Greg Sheffield
Near the farmhouse, the foxes will hold a panel discussion on the phenomena of hens going missing from the henhouse.
This Aesop-like fable will be played out next week on Oct. 17 at the National…
October 9th, 2005 1:47 PM | Noel Sheppard
Even though the big news event this week was the president’s nomination of Harriet Miers to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the…