Moyers Encourages Jon Stewart to Paint Bush Team as Mobsters, Press as

Tim Graham
 

Culture of Corruption: Mainstream Media Ignore Feinstein's Conflict

Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is involved in a scandal that so far the media has completely ignored. David Keene reports:Anyone who knows much about real power in Congress knows that almost every member of the House and Senate lusts after a seat on the Appropriations Committee and hopes one day to achieve the status of Cardinal. The Cardinals, of course, are the folks who chair the various…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Vietnam Protest Singer Baez Gets Top Billing on Post Website

Joan Baez?Yeah, before my time too, but the Vietnam Era folk singer/protester (pictured at right on the washingtonpost.com front page earlier) scored a publicity coup today. In addition to space in the letters-to-the-editor section, the Post dispatched writer Teresa Wiltz to cover Baez. So what was so deserving of giving an aging Vietnam Era folk singer so much attention? Why, a complaint…
Ken Shepherd
 

Good Old Boys Club: WaPo Publisher Defends NYT's Shareholder Practices

Matthew Sheffield
 

Should Americans Support Media’s Desire for the Rich to Get Poorer

As the stock market has continued to regularly make new highs in 2007, how many times have you heard or read a media report carping about how the rich are getting richer?Quite a bit, right?If you feel bombarded with such inanities, consider that a completely unaudited LexisNexis search of major American media outlets identified 234 reports which included phrases like “rich get richer,” “income…
Noel Sheppard
 

Journalism Dept. Attacks Bill O'Reilly, Compares Him to Nazi Sympathiz

Many conservatives don't like Bill O'Reilly. He's an advocate for gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, believes in global warming, etc. Still, you have to respect the fact that an entire journalism department just created a "study" which accuses him of being the most vile type of propagandist, going so far as to compare him to a Nazi sympathizer.You'd think that the Indiana University…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Dow's Ascent Marred by Negative Network Spin

Julia A. Seymour
 

Military Crackdown on Blogging

Andi
 

Airline Shows 9-11 Conspiracy Film as In-flight Movie

Matthew Sheffield
 

Rosie Shocker: 'View' Co-Host Rails Against Trial Lawyers, Calls for T

Justin McCarthy
 

Networks Chip Away at Dow Milestones

BMI Staff
 

Is U.N. Using Media to Spin CO2 Emissions of Developing Nations

A truly extraordinary media event occurred Wednesday. One news outlet reported: “Developing nations that are fast industrializing, such as China and India, have braked their rising greenhouse gas emissions by more than the total cuts demanded of rich nations by the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.”Practically at the same time, another reported: “Yet [China’s] coal habit means it will soon overtake the…
Noel Sheppard
 

Rosie O'Donnell Among Time's '100 Most Influential People

Justin McCarthy
 

Joe Klein Slams Bush Carrier Landing, Says Rumsfeld Should Empty Bedpa

One great thing about liberal journalists blogging is that without the constraints of editorial oversight, they can let their hair down even more than usual, unleashing their biases as fast as their fingers fly over the keyboard.Time magazine's Joe Klein is no exception. The journalist and formerly anonymous author of "Primary Colors" shared with readers of the "Swampland" blog today his…
Ken Shepherd