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July 24th, 2006 7:19 AM | Bob Owens
No, not this demonstration in London, but this equally shameless CNN reporting in Lebanon:
Politics creeps into the ward like the blood that runs on the floors. "Clearly he is Hezbollah," says one…
July 21st, 2006 4:22 PM | Rachel Waters
Instead of worrying about the burst of the “housing bubble” you might as well watch paint dry or your grass grow. CNN’s “American Morning” is no longer forecasting doom and gloom for the US…
July 21st, 2006 1:32 PM | Bob Owens
They forgot to call him a "stinky poopyhead."
Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee.
July 19th, 2006 4:40 PM | Greg Sheffield
Hugh Miles, author of "Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that Is Challenging the West," offers wishful thinking in Foreign Policy magazine. Now that there will be an English…
July 19th, 2006 2:00 PM | BMI Staff
Networks
Include Fear Premium in Oil Coverage
Journalists and oil traders have been
quick to warn viewers that $4 gas is coming. Oil…
July 19th, 2006 1:28 PM | Ken Shepherd
Washington Post food writer Candy Sagon gave a sour assessment of her grocery store quandaries in her July 19 article “Is There Anything Left That We Can Eat?”
Sagon’s…
July 19th, 2006 12:29 PM | Rich Noyes
Last night (Tuesday) on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, senior international correspondent Nic Robertson touted his “exclusive” exchange with a Hezbollah propagandist who led Robertson on a tour of a…
July 19th, 2006 10:58 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Is CNN correspondent Nic Robertson looking to be the next Peter Arnett? I've been getting tips that this may be the case. They're starting to wonder at Israpundit after watching Robertson…
July 18th, 2006 2:40 PM | Megan McCormack
During a July 18th segment on the science behind stem cell research with CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, American Morning substitute host Carol Costello displayed a shocking lack of…
July 18th, 2006 12:54 PM | Brent Baker
Jim Murphy, who castigated the MRC as “more biased” than the mainstream media and rejected criticism in NewsBusters when he was the Executive Producer of the CBS Evening News, will soon take control…
July 14th, 2006 2:57 PM | Rich Noyes
Surely, no one in the U.S. media could have a kind word to say about Hezbollah, the radical Palestinian terrorist group that decades ago seized southern Lebanon as a base for anti-Israeli operations…
July 14th, 2006 2:28 PM | Tim Graham
Another friend sent a giggle with the HBO press release on Spike Lee's forthcoming Katrina documentary. Is Spike Lee seeking a "wide range of opinions"? Bayou Buzz has details, including this…
July 14th, 2006 1:54 PM | Noel Sheppard
Most NBers are likely unfamiliar with the name Eric Boehlert. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine that used to write for Salon, and has a book out called “Lapdogs: How the Press…
July 13th, 2006 3:02 PM | Ken Shepherd
CNN business contributor Andy Serwer reported on a curious policy change at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) stores: they’re giving first-time shoplifters a break for inexpensive merchandise. The story…
July 13th, 2006 9:53 AM | Noel Sheppard
President Bush announced some great news about the economy Tuesday, but the media weren't in any mood to celebrate. Though the budget deficit for 2006 looks to be significantly lower than forecast…
July 13th, 2006 8:53 AM | Ian Schwartz
CNN's Jack Cafferty would never pass up an opportunity to attack Karl Rove, whether that means a fat joke, or in this case, painting him as a criminal, even though he did nothing wrong. On the 5pm…
July 12th, 2006 10:55 PM | Brent Baker
Declaring he “absolutely” believes “the truth” of his discredited story based on forged memos, about President Bush's National Guard record, on Wednesday's Larry King Live on CNN Dan Rather contended…
July 12th, 2006 4:45 PM | Amy Menefee
“We’ll look at who’s to blame for the stuff you put in your body.”
That’s not an exaggeration of the media’s view of the “food police’s” efforts to…
July 12th, 2006 2:00 PM | BMI Staff
Networks
Serve as Deputy for Food Police
Do you feel comfortable eating that
Big Mac? That frappuccino? If so, the food police havent…
July 12th, 2006 9:59 AM | Noel Sheppard
Better put your coffee cups down, folks – and your wine glasses for that matter – as Team CNN yesterday provided viewers with quite a knee-slapper. During the 7PM ET installment of Tuesday’s “The…
July 11th, 2006 12:43 PM | Ian Schwartz
The New York Times ran a sycophantic story on the "success" of "Countdown" and how it has become the "centerpiece" of MSNBC's lineup. Throughout the article, columnist Bill Carter discusses Countdown…
July 10th, 2006 2:02 PM | Ken Shepherd
Gas prices are on the rise again, but are they really just one penny below “all-time highs,” as CNN business reporter Carrie Lee suggested recently?
“Up 11 cents a gallon…
July 8th, 2006 1:03 PM | Noel Sheppard
As reported by NewsBusters here, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware) made some rather insensitive statements last month concerning not being able to “go to a 7- Eleven or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a…
July 7th, 2006 10:08 PM | Brent Baker
On Friday's Washington Week on PBS, taped at the Aspen Ideas Festival (“Inspired Thinking in an Idyllic Setting”), when asked by host Gwen Ifill about hateful speech in politics and directed at…
July 7th, 2006 7:56 PM | Tim Graham
MRC intern Chadd Clark found that CNN had the same old pattern of centering the day's big state court decisions on "gay marriage" as a ruling for "proponents" first. This report…