Andrea Mitchell Decries Arkansas Passing 'Most Restrictive Abortion Le

Kyle Drennen
March 7th, 2013 5:16 PM
On her Thursday 1 p.m. ET hour show on MSNBC, host Andrea Mitchell denounced a newly passed law in Arkansas preventing abortions after 12 weeks: "We're talking about the most restrictive abortion legislation in decades. Most people do not think it will pass court test muster..." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] She lamented to Time magazine's Nancy Gibbs: "We're still…
 

The MRC@25: Worst Media Bias of 2008

Rich Noyes
September 22nd, 2012 8:06 AM

NewsBusters is showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, September 27. Click here for blog posts recounting the worst of 1988 through 2007. Today, the worst bias of 2008: Keith Olbermann shrieks at President Bush to “…

 

The MRC @25: Worst Media Bias of 1991

Rich Noyes
September 5th, 2012 8:06 AM

Each morning, NewsBusters is showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala on September 27. (Click here for ticket information) Already this week, we’ve published the worst quotes of 1988, 1989 and 1990; today, the worst bias of 1991…

 

Time, Newsweek Defensively Backed Out of Weinergate and Scorned Our 'P

Tim Graham
June 24th, 2011 7:09 AM
Since we disposed with the notion that the networks had a feeding frenzy on the Anthony Weiner scandal, what about the news magazines? They began with a whimper, but then that week’s magazines were summer double issues. After the week off, what happened in their June 27 issues? Not much. Newsweek didn’t offer a down arrow in their “Conventional Wisdom” column, but they gave an up arrow to “…
 

Time Hails the Pill While Ignoring Negative Impact

Colleen Raezler
April 23rd, 2010 5:24 PM
Time's Nancy Gibbs celebrated the birth control pill's 50th anniversary in her May 3 cover story by hailing the greater employment opportunities for women that resulted from its wide-spread use. But she failed to explore the downsides of it.  The Pill became widely available in 1960, first to married women who wanted to control their fertility and later, to single women. And though the…
 

Spin of the Year: Time Touts Bill Clinton as More Devoted to Chelsea T

Tim Graham
September 27th, 2009 9:08 AM
 

Time Tries to Turn Obama Into Cute, Cuddly Muppet

Warner Todd Huston
June 8th, 2009 4:14 AM
You want a blatant example of the Old Media's over-the-top, gobsmacked love affair with Obama? Well, one would be hard pressed not to see Time Magazine's latest piece by Nancy Gibbs as a perfect example of the media ignoring all ills and of projecting only what is wonderful onto the dearly beloved as this piece represents. The lionization of Obama is bad enough, but the selective memory of the…
 

Time: Barack Obama, Sesame Street Both Show Mastery, Empathy, And End

Tim Graham
June 7th, 2009 5:37 PM
 

Time: 'Obama Isn't Interested in a Culture War

Tim Graham
May 27th, 2009 8:40 AM
 

Time's Nancy Gibbs Cheers Obama for Overcoming 'Unwise, Unfair, Unholy

Tim Graham
January 20th, 2009 8:55 AM
In the Life Magazine book of commemorative photographs titled The American Journal of Barack Obama, a set of essays in the back recount Obama’s life and triumphs. Time Senior Writer Nancy Gibbs, who recently compared Obama in Time to a prince born in a manger, championed Obama’s breaking the chains of religious conservatism in American life. His ascent marked "a growing consensus that something…
 

Time Skips Holder Controversy, But Implied Ashcroft Was Unfit in

Tim Graham
January 15th, 2009 5:19 PM
 

Bozell Column: The Year of Leg Thrills

Brent Bozell
December 23rd, 2008 11:49 PM
 

Time Mag: Obama a 'Prince' Like Jesus Born of 'Imagination, History an

Brent Baker
November 11th, 2008 12:34 AM
Warning its readers to “be prepared to gag,” the “Scrapbook” page of this week's Weekly Standard magazine recited “some of the worst over-the-top reactions to The One's ascendance,” starting with Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of…
 

Time: 'Furies' Like Hugh Hewitt, NR Make 'War' on Michelle Obama

Tim Graham
May 29th, 2008 2:23 PM