WashPost: Court Ruling Puts Gun Grabbing DC Govt. 'On the Spot

In today's Washington Post, staff writer Carol Leonnig heavily skewed in favor of the District of Columbia gun ban. The stringent 1976 gun law was overturned earlier this year by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals but may be appealed to the Supreme Court. Notice the skew of the article in favor of the D.C. government's position in the first two paragraphs of "Gun Ban Ruling…
Ken Shepherd

Down CNN's Memory Hole

Remember all the false reports coming out of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina? Don't try to relive them at CNN. The network has gone back and corrected a report that originally talked about snipers on the rooftops without any sort of retraction.Remember in 1984, where Winston's job was to revise newspapers of the past to keep up with the ever changing present? This is very interesting. A…
Matthew Sheffield

TV News Political Editor: ‘How Come We’re Not Hearing More [Iraq W

It goes without question that the San Francisco Bay Area is infamous for its extreme liberal views. Having lived here for 28 years, I know this to be a fact that most residents consider a badge of honor.Sadly, in the middle of this leftist motif is KTVU’s “Ten O’Clock News,” an award-winning program that often is so liberally biased that it’s unwatchable.Such was certainly the case Wednesday…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

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NB Staff

On GMA, Geraldo Claims Illegals 'Law-Abiding.' Really

Mark Finkelstein

Charles Gibson: Falwell Didn't Deserve Top Story Honors, FNC's GOP Deb

Tim Graham

'Today': Haircut to Hedge Fund, Dee Dee Digs at Edwards

Mark Finkelstein

Larry Flynt Classier Than CNN On Jerry Falwell's Death

Lynn Davidson

Media Dance on Falwell's Grave

Didn't their mothers teach them not to speak ill of the dead?
Colleen Raezler

NBC's Williams Cues Bill Clinton to Blast Bush Admin: 'How Much Is The

Brian Williams turned over just under five minutes of Wednesday's NBC Nightly News to a live interview with former President Bill Clinton about his effort to address global warming, a fawning session which amounted to little more than pontificating from Clinton cued up by Williams, who set the tone by asking: “What does the current administration have to answer for? How much of it, in your view…
Brent Baker

Matthews' Praise for GOP Debate Limited to McCain's, Rudy's Liberal Li

Chris Matthews is not a liberal. Andrea Mitchell has told us so. Yet there are times when our fervent belief in that tenet is strained. Such as on this afternoon's "Hardball," when the only two moments from last night's GOP debate that Matthews singled out for praise were when candidates adopted liberal positions: McCain opposing torture and Rudy sticking up for abortion.View video here.…
Mark Finkelstein

Dan Rather Gets Into 'Dirty Sexy Money

Dan Rather is hardly averse to posing for picturesDan Rather, the disgraced former CBS anchor who always denounced TV news for being too "soft," will soon be making his entertainment television debut:There were gasps of surprise at ABC's fall-schedule announcement this week when the veteran TV newsman popped up as an actor in clips for "Dirty Sexy Money," a new drama about a wealthy, misbehaving…
Matthew Sheffield

Matthews Rips GOP Candidate’s Edwards Jibe: ‘Stupid' and 'Embarras

Proving that he's not a fan of Republicans, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews slammed 2008 GOP contenders on Wednesday for running a "mordant," "negative campaign." Sounding like a Democratic activist, he appeared throughout the day on MSNBC and, at one point, bitterly complained about former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s jibe that Congress spends money "like John Edwards at a beauty shop." Mr.…
Scott Whitlock

Former Bush Admin Official Kuo: Falwell 'Very Much Damaged Name of Jes

In 2003, David Kuo resigned from the Bush administration's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and later wrote a book [published just before the 2006 mid-term elections] claiming that the administration was hypocritical in its dealings with religious conservatives.The MSM had a field day because according to them [as E.J. Dionne wrote here, for example], Kuo was a religious…
Mark Finkelstein