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…
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October 14th, 2005 12:06 AM | Brad Wilmouth
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 2:24 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday night, viewers of MSNBC's Countdown got to see host Keith Olbermann elaborate on his latest conspiracy theory during a segment entitled "The Nexus of Politics and Terror," in which…
October 12th, 2005 6:47 PM | Dan Gainor
Spending federal money without raising taxes? Broadcasters have been incredulous at the thought, especially since Hurricane Katrina hit – so much so that 59 percent of their tax-related…
October 11th, 2005 11:58 PM | Brad Wilmouth
This week, Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's Countdown show, is continuing to push his latest conspiracy theory that terror alerts have been politically timed to distract attention away from…
October 11th, 2005 7:42 PM | Brent Baker
The opposition from the religious right faced by the fictional Republican presidential candidate on NBC's The West Wing, symbolizes for Jim Warren, the former Washington Bureau Chief for the…
October 11th, 2005 4:42 PM | Brent Bozell
One year after the credibility of CBS News collapsed over their use of fake memos against George W. Bush, lame attempts to rehabilitate CBS seem to be everywhere. Dan Rather is now telling anyone who…
October 11th, 2005 9:04 AM | Brent Baker
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews led Monday’s Hardball by framing the Valerie Plame case around her husband Joe Wilson’s spin on the case, despite inconsistencies in his claims and how a much more innocent…
October 7th, 2005 10:03 PM | Brent Baker
MSNBC viewers are used to seeing Hardball host Chris Matthews take on Republicans from the left, but in a new twist, he'll being doing the same this weekend on NBC's Sunday drama, The West Wing.…
October 7th, 2005 2:47 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Another terror alert, another chance for Keith Olbermann to question whether it's politically motivated. There seems to be a pattern that when the Bush administration announces a terror alert,…
October 6th, 2005 8:58 PM | Brent Baker
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, on Tuesday night, quoted and played some video from a September BBC interview with actor Donald Sutherland, including a tearful rant against President Bush and American…
October 6th, 2005 12:45 AM | Brent Baker
On Wednesday's World News Tonight, ABC's Dan Harris highlighted conservative criticism of the selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, but delivered something unusual in network TV news…
October 5th, 2005 4:30 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
MSNBC's Hardball correspondent David Shuster revealed he is a lot more comfortable at MSNBC than he was at Fox News. In an interview for the Herald Times the Bloomington, Indiana bred Shuster told…
October 5th, 2005 1:40 AM | Bob Owens
Once upon a time, Editor and Publisher, as "America’s Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry," had a certain degree of respectability. These days, conspiratorial speculation and advocacy are…
October 5th, 2005 12:32 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Leave it to Keith Olbermann to link the topics of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and the 9/11 attacks. On his Countdown show on Tuesday night, the MSNBC anchor relayed that Miers was the…
October 4th, 2005 1:42 PM | Brent Baker
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter launched a vicious attack, on Congressman Tom DeLay's ideology, in this week's magazine. Promoting it, on Monday's Imus in the Morning on MSNBC, he charged that "it's…
October 4th, 2005 6:06 AM | Brent Baker
Dan Rather's national media colleagues rallied around him, and denigrated his critics, at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards presented by the National Television Academy at a September 19…
October 3rd, 2005 7:48 AM | Tim Graham
Howard Kurtz opens up the lid on the Washington Post today having internal discussions about the future of the newspaper. But get a load of this passage:
On Thursday, Book World Editor…
September 30th, 2005 8:38 PM | Brent Baker
CBS's Early Show never touched Durbin's sliming of servicemen, but on Friday morning Rene Syler read this short item on Bennett: "Top Democrats want an apology from former Education…
September 30th, 2005 2:10 AM | Noel Sheppard
Could New Orleans have been saved for $809,659?
It seems that as time progresses, we are…
September 29th, 2005 7:08 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann, on his Countdown show on MSNBC, delivered his latest attack on Rush Limbaugh, indirectly implying that Limbaugh is a "rude, vile pig." This latest insult came…
September 28th, 2005 12:17 AM | Dave Pierre
In a bit of news that probably won't be blared too loudly by the MSM, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) strongly implied that Cindy Sheehan misled him in a letter that precipitated their meeting today (…
September 26th, 2005 12:51 AM | Noel Sheppard
Do you remember that Jefferson Parish, Louisiana president that was on NBC's “Meet the Press” three weeks ago suggesting that the poor response by the…
September 19th, 2005 4:59 PM | Brent Baker
As Noel Sheppard posted on NewsBusters on Sunday, George Stephanopoulos' “entire twenty minutes” with Bill Clinton on This Week “appeared to be an opportunity for President Clinton to defame the…
September 19th, 2005 4:58 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Over the weekend on his syndicated show Chris Matthews compared Bush's performance during Katrina to Jimmy Carter's infamous 'malaise' speech in 1979 and NPR's Ed Gordon cribbed from Jon Stewart…