Networks Respect 'America's Best-Known Forecaster,' Except When He Tal

Networks rush to cover Dr. Bill Gray's hurricane predictions, but leave out the fact that he thinks the world might cool again soon.
Dan Gainor

Will 'American Morning' Anchors Be Less Biased

Lynn Davidson

Open Thread

For general discussion and comment...
NB Staff

Leonardo DiCaprio: Humans Have Had a Devastating Impact on our Planet

Vanity Fair has just released its second annual “Green Issue.” This year, actor Leonardo DiCaprio was prominently placed on the cover -- captured by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz no less -- standing at the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon in southeast Iceland perfectly looking the part as Hollywood's foremost concerned environmentalist.In the featured piece, DiCaprio was labeled “The Man of the…
Noel Sheppard

Record Fund-raising Despite McCain-Feingold's Promise to 'Clean Up Pol

The DC Examiner has a great editorial this morning reminding everyone of the dramatic failure that McCain-Feingold has been. Not only has it failed to remove the "corrupting" influence of money in elections, it's needlessly promoted censorship:Well, so much for “getting rid of the corrupting influence of money on politics” — the basic aim of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002,…
Matthew Sheffield

CNN Anchors Dumped, Rosie Looking to Ditch 'View' for Syndicated Riche

Tim Graham

Boston Globe: Call for Gore to Run for President 'Heats Up

Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. The Boston Globe reports on the "push" to draft Al Gore to run for president in 2008 in the April 4th edition of the paper. The story's starry-eyed subjects launching Gore for president websites and sponsoring web petitions are in for the best fluff treatment lending their claims of a "surge" in support for a Gore candidacy far more legitimacy than…
Warner Todd Huston

Rosie Uses Her Blog to Reframe Her Controversial 9/11 Theories

In her blog, Rosie tried to soften and obscure her radical positions on 9/11, and in the process mangled the Constitution and pretended the issue is that her critics are stifling her Constitutional “freedom to speak.” She started out sympathetic and seemingly respectful, mouthed patriotic platitudes and then repackaged her tin foil hat rantings as mere “inquiry” and an extension of her First…
Lynn Davidson

Hollywood, in a Nutshell

A horror movie director delights in making people sick with on-screen violence, despite the correlation between watching violence and real-life aggression.
Kristen Fyfe

The Easter Hit Parade (a summary

Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
Brian Fitzpatrick

ABC Highlights Safety Improvements in Baghdad

Brad Wilmouth

CBS Responds to Complaints About '60 Minutes' Drug Story

Amy Ridenour

Day After Highlighting Iran's Nuclear Threat, ABC Exposes 'Secret War

A night after leading with an “exclusive” about the more imminent than thought horrific threat posed by Iran's nuclear weapons capability, ABC's World News began Tuesday with another Brian Ross “exclusive” in which he exposed a clandestine “secret war” inside Iran, a revelation that seemingly could undermine U.S. efforts to prevent Iran's extremist leaders from using those weapons of mass…
Brent Baker

Andrea Mitchell Flip-Flops on Gen. Petraeus’ Meeting With Republican

Andrea Mitchell and Chris Matthews orchestrated a rather obvious flip-flop Monday of a controversial statement the former made on the “Chris Matthews Show” the day before.In a nutshell, Matthews’ Sunday panel was discussing the politics of Iraq. During several instances, Mitchell stated that Gen. David Petraeus had recently had a private meeting with the Republican caucus promising progress in…
Noel Sheppard