'World News Tonight' Kicks off Global Warming Series After Report on R

This is really hysterical, and requires all sharp objects, food and drinking vessels to be properly stowed before proceeding.On Saturday evening, ABC’s “World News Tonight” kicked off its new series “Going Green” with “fresh ideas for coping with the warming planet.” Quite comically, this was just minutes after anchor David Muir led the program with a report captioned "Arctic Easter" detailing…
Noel Sheppard

Easter, ABC-Style: Cluster Bombs, 'Pagan' Easter Bunny

Mark Finkelstein

Agence France Presse: 50 Million People to Lose Homes to Global Warmin

Agence France Presse has published a whopper about Global Warming, titled "Climate refugees -- the growing army without a name", in which we get the claims of a UN Climate Committee that "50 million" will be homeless because of Global Warming "by 2010". But the report is so filled with could be's, might be's and the ever popular "some experts say" that it is hard to take the claims seriously. It…
Warner Todd Huston

Environment: Globe Touts Cambridge's Feel-Good Foolishness

The great William F. Buckley, Jr. once famously said that he "would rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book, than by the Harvard faculty." The National Review founder might well feel the same about the elected officials of Harvard's home of Cambridge, Massachusetts. For as described in a Boston Globe editorial of this morning, How green was my city?, Cambridge's…
Mark Finkelstein

Weekend Captionfest II

NB Staff

Director/Actor Kevin Smith To Attack Christians/Republicans in New 'Ho

Warner Todd Huston

Record Cold Sweeps Nation After Release of IPCC’s Global Warming Rep

The multitudes of anthropogenic global warming skeptics around the country couldn’t have scripted this any better. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fourth Assessment Report Friday presaging doom and gloom as a result of global warming, a cold snap gripped much of the country promising all-time low April temperatures in many cities across the fruited plain.You really…
Noel Sheppard

Newsweek's 'On Faith': Let's Just Say They Found Jesus's Bones

Ken Shepherd

John Edwards Drops Out of Another Fox News Debate

Not surprisingly, Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards has dropped out of another debate sponsored by the Fox News Channel. As reported by the Associated Press (emphasis added throughout):The Edwards campaign said it will not attend the September 23 debate in Detroit hosted by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, but officials added that Edwards is "looking forward" to a…
Noel Sheppard

‘Forbes on Fox’ Panel Debates Whether ABC Should Fire Rosie O’Do

Barbara Walters and the folks at ABC should be very pleased with themselves, for all the recent nutty remarks by Rosie O’Donnell precipitated a discussion on Saturday’s “Forbes on Fox” about whether or not the controversial co-host of “The View” should be fired.Though the group seemed to agree that the current “View” formula of making exceedingly shocking statements might be helping ratings, the…
Noel Sheppard

Bias 101: How to Impugn the Credibility of an Inconvenient Expert

Matthew Sheffield

Open Thread

For weekend discussion and comment...
NB Staff

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: March 31 to April

"Just Because You’re Getting Married, Doesn’t Mean You Need Electricity" Members of the media are working environmental bias into the oddest segments. "Good Morning America" weatherman Sam Champion reported this week on the trendy new concept of "green weddings." According to Mr. Champion, "more and more Americans" are embracing ideas such as not using electricity during their wedding and holding…
Scott Whitlock

Time Hails Gay-Left 'Mogul', Placed On the Power List With NYT 'Gay Ma

Tim Graham