Double-standard Ends? Racist Radio Host 'Indefinitely Suspended

Matthew Sheffield
 

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NB Staff
 

Sawyer Frets Gas Will Continue to Climb, Stock Market Will Crash

With gasoline prices going up, Diane Sawyer worries they will continue to rise. With stock prices going up, the same Sawyer worries they will experience a crash of historic proportions.Sawyer's guest on Good Morning America today at 7:15 AM EDT was Mellody Hobson, a GMA financial contributor. Here's how Sawyer kicked things off.GMA CO-HOST DIANE SAWYER: Will runaway gas prices keep soaring,…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Post Ad Promotes Democratic 'Diversity' vs. All-White Guy Republicans

Tim Graham
 

WashPost Royally Ribs Bush for Gaffe

Ken Shepherd
 

Fear or Bigotry? PBS to Reveal 'Truth' of the Inquisition

The Public Broadcasting System is planning to air a documentary certain to offend Catholics scant weeks after canceling a documentary for fear of offending Muslims.
CMI Staff
 

Media Ignores Study Revealing Anti-Evangelical Bias

Isn't it newsworthy that a majority of American college faculty members hold unfavorable views of evangelical Christians?
Colleen Raezler
 

Travel Guide Writer's Crusade Against 'Binge Flying

Sometimes the blog entries just write themselves. Mark Ellingham, a man who helped increase travel as a form of leisure is now telling people they should stop taking flights. It gets more ridiculous, however:Mark Ellingham, founder of the Rough Guides and the man who encouraged a generation of travellers to pack a rucksack and explore the world, has compared the damage done by tourism to the…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Bewildered Brian Williams 'Paralyzed' with 'Fear' by Paper vs. Plastic

Brent Baker
 

Bob Schieffer Says I Didn't Betray Katie Couric, Says Media Not to Bla

Former CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer told Columbus Dispatch writer Tim Feran that the gossip was untrue that he was trashing Katie Couric in the press. "I was not the source for that story, period. I had nothing to do with it...and I don't know who did." Schieffer also took exception to the Bill Moyers theory that the national media were enablers to President Bush's runup to war in Iraq.…
Tim Graham
 

Political Economist Robert Higgs on Peer Reviews and Scientific Consen

How many times in the past year as global warming has become a headline issue have you heard a liberal media member or Hollywood elite talk about a consensus of peer reviewed scientists?So much so that you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one, correct?As an example, pop singer Sheryl Crow during her recent Stop Global Warming College tour would toss the term "peer-reviewed science" around…
Noel Sheppard
 

Must See TV: NB's Tim Graham on 'Glenn Beck' Tonight

NB Staff
 

At Both GOP and Democratic Debates, MSNBC Pushes a Liberal Agenda

Rich Noyes
 

The Importance of Being Murdoch

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…
Matthew Sheffield