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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: I Hope Trayvon ‘Whooped the Sh**’ Out of Zimmerman

By Tom Blumer | February 26, 2015, 3:03 PM EST

While it's performing a long overdue housecleaning, MSNBC should point its broom in Melissa Harris-Perry's direction and sweep her off the network for her anti-democratic, violence-advocating rant earlier this week at Cornell University. Among o ...

Sharpton Hits Back at Critic Who Called Him 'Coon' for Seeking Publicity After Ferguson Shooting

By Randy Hall | August 14, 2014, 11:23 PM EDT

Soon after 18-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by an unidentified policeman on Sunday afternoon in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, Rev. Al Sharpton arrived on the scene to “speak up for the family of the victim” and spend a great deal of time ...

WaPo's Wemple Details NBC News's Efforts to Dismiss Zimmerman Lawsuit, Slams Network's 'Journalistic Felony'

By Ken Shepherd | May 2, 2014, 2:01 PM EDT

Attorneys for NBC News are feverishly working to get a judge to toss out a defamation lawsuit filed by George Zimmerman, claiming, oddly enough, that Mr. Zimmerman's prior work seeking to get justice for a homeless black man made him a "limited ...

Scarborough, Who Branded Zimmerman A 'Murderer,' Condemns Conservatives Who 'Raced Blindly' To Support Him

By Mark Finkelstein | April 24, 2014, 8:31 AM EDT

If there was anyone in America who recklessly rushed to prematurely proclaim a position on George Zimmerman, it was Joe Scarborough.  Before Zimmerman had even been arrested, at a time when even Al Sharpton was being relatively cautious with his language, ...

Nancy Grace Slams Piers: 'It's Not Really Right For A Brit To Jump Up...To Us About Gun Control'

By Matthew Balan | February 18, 2014, 1:03 PM EST

Nancy Grace blasted Piers Morgan on the latter's CNN program on Monday for unsurprisingly forwarding gun control in the middle of a panel discussion on the controversial Michael Dunn case: " It's not really right for a Brit to jump up and s ...

Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby Offers Four New Year's Resolutions to Stop Media 'Sins' and 'Scams'

By Tim Graham | January 4, 2014, 6:24 PM EST

Conservative Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby has offered some New Year’s resolutions for the news business. He began by noting legendary columnist H. L. Mencken in his day at the Baltimore Sun said he was hard-pressed to to name five papers that conduc ...

Spike Lee Sued For Erroneous George Zimmerman Tweet

By Noel Sheppard | November 12, 2013, 1:43 PM EST

As NewsBusters previously reported, film director Spike Lee last March retweeted a posting supposedly including the address of George Zimmerman. Now the couple who actually reside at that address are suing Lee. In a complaint filed with the Seminole Count ...

Victim of 'I Hate White People' Attack Dies, Will Media Finally Report Incident?

By Noel Sheppard | September 9, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the national news media outside of local New York outlets has totally ignored a New York man becoming brain dead as the result of an unprovoked attack by a man that shouted "I hate white people." The victim, 62-ye ...

Sarah Silverman Introduces 'Black NRA': Giving Guns to 'Those That Need Them Most- Young Black Males'

By Noel Sheppard | September 9, 2013, 5:07 PM EDT

The folks at Funny or Die have decided to take on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman/Stand Your Ground issue with a video introducing the Black NRA. In it, Sarah Silverman says, "Our fund will put guns into the hands of those that need them most: yo ...

National Media Completely Ignore NY Man Left Brain Dead By Attacker Shouting 'I Hate White People'

By Noel Sheppard | September 8, 2013, 11:56 AM EDT

NewsBusters asked Saturday if the media will report a New York man becoming brain dead as a result of an unprovoked attacked by a man saying "I hate white people." So far with the exception of local New York coverage, the answer is a resounding ...

Marching Band Spells 'Trayvon' During Halftime of College Football Game

By Noel Sheppard | September 9, 2013, 10:03 AM EDT

NewsBusters reported Saturday that the trustee of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, is trying to get an asteroid named after Trayvon Martin. At roughly the same time Saturday, the Alabama State University marching band paid tribute to Martin d ...

NY Man Left Brain Dead By Attacker Shouting 'I Hate White People'- Will Media Report It?

By Noel Sheppard | September 8, 2013, 10:47 AM EDT

The race-baiting media are going to be put to a serious challenge in the coming days following a tragic hate crime committed in New York City's Union Square Wednesday. As CBS's New York affiliate reported late Friday evening, a retired train con ...

Lowell Observatory Wants Asteroid Named After Trayvon Martin

By Noel Sheppard | September 8, 2013, 11:01 PM EDT

How would you like to look into the evening sky and see an asteroid named Trayvon Martin? If the trustee of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, has his way, such will be the case. As the Arizona Daily Sun reported Thursday, the Observatory disco ...

NBC Nightly News Has Worst Two Ratings Weeks in Over Six Years

By Tom Blumer | August 27, 2013, 5:36 PM EDT

Based on a review of the archive at Media Bistro's Evening News Category, NBC's Nightly News has just turned in its lowest consecutive two weeks of ratings in over six years. You'd never know that from reading Chris Ariens's narrative ...

CNN Host: 'Media Profit By Playing Off Prejudice and Encouraging People's Fears About Race'

By Noel Sheppard | August 26, 2013, 9:32 AM EDT

Eric Deggans, the TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, made a bold statement Sunday guaranteed to anger liberals and their minions in the press. Hosting CNN's Reliable Sources, Deggans finished with a message about the media's role in st ...