The Importance of Being Murdoch
May 7th, 2007 4:39 PM
Rupert Murdoch, founder of the Fox network and Fox News Channel and CEO of media giant News Corp has the ability to make grown journalists cry. A quick survey of liberal media blogger Jim Romenesko's Media News page shows an industry in a panic over Murdoch's $5 billion offer to purchase Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones.Why all the fear and loathing?To put it simply, Rupert Murdoch is…
Stahl, Who Derided Reagan, Hypocritically Lectures Dobbs for Criticizi
May 7th, 2007 10:03 AM
CBS's Lesley Stahl, in a 60 Minutes profile of CNN's Lou Dobbs aired Sunday night, expressed indignation over how Dobbs violates the supposed “fair and balanced” rule of journalism by revealing his disdain for President Bush, but Stahl has a long history of announcing her personal political views, including scorn for President Reagan and adulation of Hillary Clinton. When Dobbs confirmed he's “…
AP Ignored Allegations of McGreevey's Corruption, Focused on Supposed
May 5th, 2007 6:50 PM
Yahoo picked up a fluff AP article that distorted Democratic NJ Governor Jim McGreevey’s 2004 resignation. It perpetuated the success of what should have been a politician’s attempt to cover allegations of corruption by using his closeted sexuality to distract an incurious and complicit media. This puff piece kept alive McGreevey’s pattern of announcing something socially startling to draw…
Virgin Airlines Pockets 'Loose Change' After Talk Show, Blog Buzz
May 3rd, 2007 4:00 PM
Yesterday, NewsBusters executive editor Matthew Sheffield passed along how bloggers had picked up on Virgin Airlines screening the 9/11 conspiracy documentary "Loose Change" as an in-flight movie selection.Ace notes the development here. Ericka Andersen of Human Events and Bryan of Hot Air also covered the story.Thanks to radio host Andrew Wilkow's Sirius radio program, Virgin has decided to…
Left's Attack on Broder Reveals Larger Issue
May 2nd, 2007 8:30 PM
In case you haven't heard, the entire Senate Democratic caucus sent a letter to the Washington Post complaining about a column that David Broder, the paper's respected moderate liberal columnist wrote criticizing Democratic leader Harry Reid for saying the Iraq war is "lost."We've talked about it quite a bit here at NB (here and here for some of our coverage) but today's New York Sun makes a…
WaPost: Confused That Joan Baez Uninvited to Perform For Troops
May 2nd, 2007 10:37 AM
The Washington Post is tsk tsking the U.S. Army and Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for their uninviting of aging 60s' war protester Joan Baez from appearing in a concert for wounded soldiers with John Cougar Mellencamp last Friday. In a sympathetic article the Post can't seem to understand why the Army wouldn't want an over the hill, anti-establishment activist to appear before our wounded…
April Vehicle Sales: Ford in Deep Denial over AFA Boycott, with Old Me
May 2nd, 2007 9:22 AM
In an unusual move last Friday, Ford decided that it couldn't wait for the month to end before it told us how bad it was going to be -- for the whole industry:
Ford Motor Co. said on Friday that U.S. auto industry sales to date in April were "terrible" as consumer confidence was hit by a slow housing market and rising gas prices.
..... Pipas said industry volume appeared to be down 10 percent…
