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New York Times Movie Writers Cite 'Good Behavior Watchdogs,' Then Only Write About Dogging Scenes With Guns and Smoking

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2013, 6:49 PM EST

New York Times entertainment reporters Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply reviewed the year at the box office on Monday, another record year of almost $11 billion spent on movie tickets. The top five grossing movies were all sequels (or in the case of “Mons ...

MSNBC's Wolffe Mocks 'ObamaCare Haters' as 'Biggest Losers of the Year'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2013, 5:46 PM EST

On the Monday, December 30, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, Richard Wolffe-- executive editor of MSNBC.com-- mocked "ObamaCare haters," tagging them as the "biggest losers of the year," as he appeared as a panel me ...

Obama Pollster Wishes Press Wouldn't Report Polls Next Year

By Noel Sheppard | January 3, 2014, 2:49 PM EST

Barack Obama's favorability rating is in the toilet, there are crucial midterm elections next year that could decide the fate of his presidency, and what do you think his pollster wishes from the media in 2014? According to Politico 's Mike Alle ...

'I Don't Know Anything About Football,' WaPo Columnist Tells MSNBC Panel on Redskins' Fate

By Randy Hall | December 31, 2013, 4:45 PM EST

How much do you need to know about a subject before expressing a strong opinion during a panel on MSNBC? Apparently very little, as Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart took part in a Monday afternoon discussion on the future of the Washington Reds ...

On MSNBC, WashPost's Capehart: Republicans 'Told Women,' Minorities to 'Go Bleep Yourself'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2013, 4:26 PM EST

Appearing on the Monday, December 30, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart charged that, in the year 2013, Republicans had "told" women, young people and minorities to "go bleep yo ...

Mich. Car Dealer Is a Microcosm of What to Really Expect as Admin Ramps Up to Hype Obamacare 'Success Stories'

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2013, 3:58 PM EST

Drudge's headline linking to a Politico item by Carrie Budoff Brown and John Allen about the Obama administration's plans to aggressively identify and promote Obamacare successes in 2014 ("White House Plans to Step up Obamacare Propaganda i ...

Networks Skirt Tying Russian Bombings to Islam

By Kristine Marsh | December 31, 2013, 2:42 PM EST

Islamic terrorists were suspected in the terrorist bombings that just killed dozens in Russia.  But reporters at ABC, NBC and CBS went out of their way to avoid the obvious connection or even to call the suspects “terrorists,” preferring instead the squis ...

Happy New Year: Already Depressed Median Household Income Has Gone Nowhere For Two Years

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2013, 1:30 PM EST

In an earlier post today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that reporters at Politico and CNNMoney.com seemed mystified at a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll showing that 68 percent of Americans believe the economy is in poor shape, and that ov ...

MSNBC's Williams Rants Ted Cruz 'Biggest Fraud,' Pouts 'He Wasn't Supposed to Be Elected'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2013, 12:57 PM EST

Appearing as a panel member on the Monday, December 30, PoliticsNation on MSNBC to help assign the annual "Revvy" awards for the year 2013, MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams ranted that Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is "the biggest fraud ...

CBS News’s Crawford Cheerleads for ObamaCare, Touts White House Talking Points

By Jeffrey Meyer | December 31, 2013, 11:43 AM EST

CBS must have decided that their 2014 New Year’s resolution was to be a little nicer to President Obama. Acting more as a White House stenographer than an actual journalist, CBS News’s Jan Crawford went to bat for the Obama Administration on December 30th ...

Global Warming Researchers Ice-Bound; 96 Percent of Network Stories Censor Why Ship Is There

By Mike Ciandella | December 31, 2013, 2:08 PM EST

Antarctic ice trapped a ship full of scientists on a climate change expedition. Yet, 96 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers ignored climate change entirely. The ship has been stuck since Christmas morning. The broadcast networks ...

MSNBC Slams 'Right' Over 'Knockout Game' and IRS Scandal, 'Want to Stoke Issues of Race'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 31, 2013, 11:13 AM EST

On special edition of MSNBC's PoliticsNation on Monday in which a panel of MSNBC regulars selected awards for the year 2013, MSNBC contributor Joy Reid asserted that the "Knockout Game" was the "most overrated story of the year," ...

U.K. Guardian Reporter Aboard Icebound Antarctic Ship Goes Stir Crazy

By P.J. Gladnick | December 31, 2013, 10:51 AM EST

The helicopter rescue crew is coming to take me away, ha-haaa! They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa! To the funny farm. Where I can find banana peanut butter milkshakes sprinkled with delicious carbon credits. We thought it was a j ...

Open Thread Tuesday

By NB Staff | December 31, 2013, 10:44 AM EST

For general discussion and comment... ...

Poll Showing Most Americans Believe Economy Is and Will Stay in Poor Shape Puzzles Politico, CNN

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2013, 9:37 AM EST

One thing the establishment press will not be celebrating this evening as we head into 2014 is the fact that they have been unable to convince the American people that the economy has been and will continue to be on the rebound. A CNN/Opinion Research Cor ...