Disappointment at ABC News: 'Politicians and Gun Control: Why Aren’t

ABC's Good Morning America and World News on Friday displayed disappointment that liberals and Democrats have not pursued gun control in the wake of the mass murders at Virginia Tech. GMA's on-screen graphic for a 7am half hour story demanded, “Politicians and Gun Control: Why Aren’t They Outraged?” Co-host Robin Roberts rued: “After every major shooting in the U.S., without fail, there has been…
Brent Baker
 

Are Bill Maher's Catholic Child Abuse Jokes 'Topical

Tim Graham
 

Activist Suggests 'Reference' Checks For Gun Sales; Couric Fails to Sc

On her "Couric & Co." blog today, the CBS "Evening News" anchor posted a 10-question interview with gun control activist Paul Helmke. Couric's questions largely lobbed softballs for the Brady Campaign's Helmke to hit out of the park. But beyond that, she let slip a suggestion a keener ear might have caught and followed up on.Helmke suggested he'd prefer a law making law-abiding citizens have…
Ken Shepherd
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original caption: Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, right, and correspondent Pete Williams report, in New York Thursday morning April 19, 2007, on a video manifesto and photos sent to their network by Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui.
NB Staff
 

CS Monitor Mows Around High Cost of New Emissions Regs

Julia A. Seymour
 

In Fluffy WashPost Earth Day Profile, Sheryl Crow Cites UN's 'Conserva

In Friday’s Weekend section, Washington Post music writer Richard Harrington composed the requisite schmooze article on Sheryl Crow’s and Laurie David’s propagandistic Earth Day weekend in DC, noting how it’s “aimed at inspiring students to become part of the movement.” Which movement, a liberal movement? How many times have readers found the term “liberal movement” in the Washington Post? (…
Tim Graham
 

CS Monitor Favors Mower Regulation

New EPA mandate earns 'thanks' from newspaper writer.
Julia A. Seymour
 

CNN’s Velshi: Carbon Credits Are a 'Way Out of Their Sins

Matthew Balan
 

Study: ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows Join Al Gore's Climate Crusade

Rich Noyes
 

MSNBC Columnist: Airing of VT Killer's Material Unfair to . . . VT Kil

Mark Finkelstein
 

Ice Floes Trap 100 Seal Hunting Boats

Ken Shepherd
 

NPR Discusses ‘Online Code of Conduct’ With Blogger That Received

As NewsBusters has reported here and here, Kathy Sierra is a programming instructor and blogger that received death threats from some of her readers back in March. On Wednesday, NPR’s Adam Davidson interviewed Sierra to get her take on the raging hostility on the Internet. Host Renee Montagne introduced the segment (audio available here, h/t Tim Graham): Two leading Internet figures say that…
Noel Sheppard
 

Moderate Muslim: U.S. Media Enable Islamic Extremists

The American press is so encumbered by political correctness and ignorant of Islamic doctrine that it is allowing extremist Muslims in this country to mask a hard-core ideology in minority politics. So says M. Zuhdi Jasser, a moderate American Muslim leader (h/t: LGF).This pandering on the part of the American press (I would add international as well), is preventing the emergence of a pan-…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Rosie and Joy Claim Critics are Taking Us Into 'Nazi Germany

Justin McCarthy