CNN Waits 2 Weeks to Release and Then Bury Anti-ObamaCare Poll Results

CNN tried to downplay poll results it released on Wednesday which indicated continuing opposition to ObamaCare, while emphasizing how the poll also found "growing support" for the President's call for increased federal regulation of the financial institutions. The network and its partners at Opinion Research also took two weeks to publish the results of only two questions from the poll.The…
Matthew Balan
June 3rd, 2010 6:49 PM

PBS Features Former Harvard President Arguing Govt. Should Engineer Ha

Is it the government’s job to spread happiness? A former president of Harvard University, who was profiled on the June 2 PBS “NewsHour,” seems to think so. Derek Bok, author of The Politics of Happiness, believes the government should be in the business of manufacturing happiness.“I think a government that tries, systematically, to relieve what causes lasting misery and emphasize what gives…
Alex Fitzsimmons
June 3rd, 2010 5:36 PM

Breaking: Oil Spill Could Reach East Coast By Summer

The National Center for Atmospheric Research believes that oil from the leaking deep water rig in the Gulf of Mexico could impact much of America's East Coast by summer.As reported by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Thursday, scientists using a detailed computer modeling program have created a video image of what they feel is possible in the coming months."'I've had a lot of…
Noel Sheppard
June 3rd, 2010 5:01 PM

Joe Scarborough Bizarrely Touts: 'Last Couple Days' of Obama's Oil Spi

MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday touted Barack Obama's handling of the BP oil spill and enthused, "I think they're doing better now, right? I think the past couple days have been great." It was left to Time magazine's Mark Halperin to offer the non-White House spin. He deadpanned, "Except the hole's not plugged." [Audio available here.] Reversing the usual positions of a conservative and a member…
Scott Whitlock
June 3rd, 2010 4:51 PM

MRC-Radio: Bozell Discusses Anti-Israel and Arizona Biases, Comedy Cen

NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on WMAL's "Grandy Group" shortly after 8 a.m. this morning. The Media Research Center President discussed the media's anti-Israel bias flaring up afresh after the Gaza flotilla incident (click image at right for MP3 audio):FRED GRANDY, host:  You follow this more closely than do I. Um, over the last three or four days, has al-Jazeera acquired NBC, CBS,…
NB Staff
June 3rd, 2010 4:49 PM

China Investing Estimated $200 Billion in 'Imperialistic' Military to

Retired Army lieutenant colonel says Chinese navy is switching from 'a defensive navy' to 'an aggressive overseas navy,' with estimated ship count of 260 ships versus 286 U.S. ships.
Jeff Poor
June 3rd, 2010 4:45 PM

Brian Williams Boasts of Bettering Obama in Oil Spill Compassion -- Bu

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams granted an interview to the website Mediaite on Thursday, boasting that whatever the Obama administration and BP are doing to stop the oil spill is due to TV news cameras. Obama is behind the Williams curve, apparently.Williams insisted he led with the story on the first night and described it on air as potentially "one of the most catastrophic events of all…
Tim Graham
June 3rd, 2010 4:14 PM

CBS Highlights UN Criticism of U.S. Drone Attacks; Suggests Tactic Fue

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Pentagon correspondent David Martin reported on the United Nations criticizing U.S. drone attacks against terrorists: "Philip Alston is author of a new U.N. report which argues that drone strikes amount to a 'license to kill' without being held accountable, a license the U.S. would not want any other country to have."A clip was played of Alston proclaiming: "You'…
Kyle Drennen
June 3rd, 2010 3:52 PM

Now They Tell Us: Obama-Care Cost-Cutting Study from 'Wonderful' Group

Another "now they tell us" moment from the New York Times on Obama-care appeared on Thursday's front page: "Study Cited for Health-Cost Cuts Overstated Its Upside, Critics Say" by health reporters Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris. The Study originated from the obscure Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care group and was heavily promoted on Capitol Hill by Congressional Budget Office director turned Obama…
Clay Waters
June 3rd, 2010 3:50 PM

Media Gobble Up Study Saying Ads for Fatty Foods Cause Obesity

Time magazine marvels at advertisers' 'great influence over our behavior,' don't acknowledge individual decisions.
Kyle Gillis
June 3rd, 2010 3:41 PM

The Attorney General vs. BP: Little Skepticism on ABC & NBC, While Lef

The American lawyers who flock to Guantanamo Bay to represent captured terrorists are simply fulfilling their duty to provide representation, it is often argued by those who seem to enjoy mucking up efforts to curtail future terrorism. But once representing the American beverage giant Coca Cola makes Attorney General Eric Holder a “corporatist” who’s going to “do the Devil’s work” and only “…
Rich Noyes
June 3rd, 2010 3:35 PM

MSNBC's Brewer: Maybe New 'JC' Show Will Be 'Like a Sunday School Less

"Don't you think you're jumping the gun a little bit? I mean, the show's not even on the air."That's how MSNBC's Contessa Brewer opened her June 3 interview with Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who appeared via satellite to discuss his work with the newly-formed Citizens Against Religious Bigotry (CARB) to get advertisers on Viacom's Comedy Central to publicly pledge to not support or underwrite a show…
Ken Shepherd
June 3rd, 2010 3:27 PM

Paul McCartney Bashes Bush in Front of Obama and White House Guests

Former Beatles star Paul McCartney took a cheap shot at George W. Bush Wednesday evening after receiving an award from Barack Obama.McCartney was honored in the East Room of the White House by the President, his family, and a star-studded guest list that included Stevie Wonder, Dave Grohl, Faith Hill, the Jonas Brothers, Jack White, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey…
Noel Sheppard
June 3rd, 2010 3:14 PM

Education Reporter Laments 'Hodgepodge' from Lack of Federal Guidance

The paper's education reporter Sam Dillon again worries about the "hodgepodge" that results when states, as opposed to the federal government, control what's taught in schools: "The United States is one of the few developed countries that lacks national standards for its public schools."
Clay Waters
June 3rd, 2010 2:44 PM