WaPo Loopy Labeling: 'Victims' Advocates' Oppose Gun Rights for Abuse
As veteran readers of NewsBusters know, a good deal of liberal media bias comes in subtle labeling and phrasing. Today's Washington Post provides an excellent example of just that in a Metro section article pitting "victims' advocates" against "gun rights advocates" in a story about new gun restrictions lobbied for by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) and approved by the Maryland House of Delegates.The…
Name That Party: Public Drunkenness Edition
It's become axiomatic that the mainstream media are reluctant to identify the party affiliation of public officials found engaging in untoward behavior. If the offending party is a Democrat, that is.Today's CNN story, Pennsylvania official checks into rehab following arrest, is yet another example. It begins:Pennsylvania's acting secretary of labor and industry has entered a rehabilitation…
The Last Word on Obama Stem's Cell EO: '9 Things the Media Messed Up
Josh Brahm of Right to Life of Central California has done the definitive dissection of the comprehensive media failure in reporting on President Obama's recent Executive Order (EO) allowing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Brahm's "9 Things the Media Messed Up About the Obama Stem Cell Story" (HT to an e-mail from LifeNews.com) is an exceptional magnum opus that must be read in…
Essay: Newsweek and Air America Join Forces -- Both Reputations Tarnis
Notes: This first appeared in today's Human Events. We first reported this on March 11th.A Gust of Hot Air (America)It's official -- what we the sentient public, doctor and dentist patients in waiting rooms across America and the eight diehards still subscribing have long known: Newsweek is a horrendously biased left-wing rag. Newsweek announced on Tuesday that they are partnering with…
Robin Roberts Tosses Softballs to Michelle Obama; Hit Laura Bush on Bo
"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts conducted a two part, almost 11 minute interview with Michelle Obama on Friday that avoided tough questions and consisted almost entirely of softballs. This included reading e-mails from the audience, such as "What does she [the first lady] do for relaxation in the evening, away from the public?" and also "...How can she stay so positive about the…
So Why DID H. Rodgin Cohen Withdraw as Treasury's No. 2? Press Is Curi
There seems to be a wall of silence surrounding the sudden withdrawal of H. Rodgin Cohen (pictured at right) from consideration for the Number 2 job at the Treasury Department. The party line, according to ABC's This Week host and former Clinton administration adviser George Stephanopoulos, is that "an issue arose in the final stages of the vetting process." David Cho at the Washington Post…
WaPo Chats with Time Writer Turned Biden Gaffe Goalie Jay Carney
In case you were worried, former Time magazine staffer Jay Carney has "had very little trouble adapting" to his job as Vice President Biden's director of communications. From a recent interview with Washington Post's Mary Ann Akers published in the March 12 paper: [Akers]: You left journalism after 20 years with Time. How is life on the other side? Carney: It's great. I have had very little…
Fox's Sammon: Carville, Greenburg Told Reporters They Wanted Bush to F
The above headline isn't even the half of it. After the attacks were known to all, James Carville told assembled Washington reporters at a hotel conference room breakfast where he and Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg spoke (photo is from the May 20, 2004 Christian Science Monitor) to "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!" The assembled press apparently understood that…
Air America Begins Syndication Division With ... Newsweek, Whose Curre
"Journalistic" Cheap Shot at the CompetitionUPDATE: Below the fold. ------------------------------------------- Couldn't they have at least waited a week to make this announcement?Liberal radio uber-failure Air America is branching out, expanding their tremendously successful business model to include syndication of outside programming. And with whom are they beginning this new venture?Why,…
USNews Columnist: Dems 'Must' Keep Census Political -- 'Gerrymander an
Bonnie Erbe, a columnist and blogger for U.S.News and World Report, is keen to make sure that Democrats continue to cheat on re-districting as much as possible. She is insisting that Democrats not fall for a bi-partisan or a fair approach to re-districting and says that the Census should stay "politicized" because, after all, it’s Democrats in power now! So, as far as she is concerned, the…
The AP Channels the Democrats in the Limbaugh-Kennedy ‘Scandal
***TWO UPDATES, including the response from AP's Ron Fournier, at the end of this post.***Friday evening the Associated Press (AP) issued an un-bylined story which was nothing more than a stenographic reprint of the latest dishonest Democratic attack on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. The Friday story apparently reflected zero research into the charge levied by Brian Wolff, executive…
Tea Parties? What Tea Parties? Predictably, Established Media Coverage
Coverage of "tea party" protests in various cities around the country (this March 4 Pajamas Media press release, HT to FreeRepublic, cited 22 locations on February 27 and seven this weekend) has been sparse to non-existent, especially at major establishment media outlets. Most notably, based on a seach on "tea party" (not in quotes) at its ap.org home page at about 10:00 a.m., there has been no…
NY Times Says GOP Senator Bunning 'Bit of a Screwball,' May Be Mentall
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich specializes in spunky profiles of politicians -- hostile profiles of conservatives, flattering ones of liberals. His latest, on controversial Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, "Republicans Looking for a Reliever in Kentucky," fell safely into the former category, crammed with personal attacks ("questions about his mental fitness") and colorful insults (Bunning's…
