GMA Portrays Rosie vs. O’Reilly As Celebrity Feud; Ignores 9/11 Cons

On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," the ABC program featured a segment on the growing feud between "View" host Rosie O’Donnell and FNC anchor Bill O’Reilly. Although reporter Taina Hernandez did highlight some of Ms. O’Donnell’s more extreme statements, the segment mostly portayed the back-and-forth as simply a celebrity squabble. And one topic that GMA left out? Any reference to Rosie’s recent…
Scott Whitlock

Report You Won’t Hear About: Ethanol Emissions No Cleaner Than Gasol

An as yet unpublished report from Ottawa, Canada, suggests that there is absolutely no ecological advantage to using ethanol blends in cars versus conventional unleaded gasoline. Think this will make headlines here in America?Regardless of the answer, the Canadian Broadcasting Company reported on Friday (video available here, emphasis added throughout):An unpublished federal report appears to…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

Today's starter: What's your take on the satirical Barack-Obama-as-Jesus sculpture?
Matthew Sheffield

Bush Press Conference Live Blog

Ken Shepherd

CBS Advertising for Interns on Facebook

It seems CBS is expanding its search for interns by placing not just ads on its Web site, but sponsored "news feed" items on Facebook, a social networking site popular among college students and recent college graduates:Attention aspiring journalists. SponsoredShareLaunch your journalism career with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work directly with Katie Couric and CBS News.NB's Tim…
Ken Shepherd

62 Percent in AOL Poll Say Rosie O’Donnell Should be Fired

As many people know, Rosie O’Donnell has landed herself in another high-profile brouhaha with yet another high-profile media figure. In December, it was Donald Trump. Now, it’s Bill O’Reilly.Yet, this time, her statements which precipitated the skirmish – that America may have set up the recent showdown between Iran and the captured British sailors, as well as the Bush administration being…
Noel Sheppard

Signs of a Liberal Media: Yoko Ono Honorifics

One sign that a news outlet is liberal is how they can find nothing controversial in peace protests by long-time avant-garde hippies like Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon. The Washington Post greeted her latest publicity stunt in DC with an honorific article on the front page of the Style section headlined "Yoko Ono's Peaceful Message Takes Root." Jessica Dawson didn't mention how this alleged…
Tim Graham

NJ Paper Describes School Drill To Thwart Right Wing Fundamentalist Te

Terry Trippany

More Kyoto Spin in Reuters Fluff Piece on Biofuels

Lynn Davidson

Mitchell's Mistake: Claims McCain Hurt in GOP by Support for Iraq War

Mark Finkelstein

Chris Matthews: Campaign Donors 'Unsavory', Romney's are 'Rich People

Warner Todd Huston

Showtime Renews Lesbian Series

The CBS-owned cable network is buying another season of The L Word despite its shrinking audience.
Kristen Fyfe

60 Minutes Ignores Warnings, Broadcasts Faulty Left-Wing Data on Drug

The National Center for Public Policy Research's health care senior policy analyst, David Hogberg, contacted the CBS television show "60 Minutes" five times last week -- by telephone, fax and e-mail -- to warn the show's producers that a report by the leftie big-government health care lobby group Families USA, which "60 Minutes" planned to highlight in Sunday's show, rested on faulty data. The…
Amy Ridenour

CBS on Supreme Court's EPA Ruling: 5 Non-Ideologues Vs. 4 'Most Conser

Brent Baker