AP, NY Times Lament Low Union Participation

Reporters highlight concern about 'intimidation,' leave out possibility that unions work against employees' self interest.
Ken Shepherd
 

NY Times Details Efforts to Circumvent Affirmative Action Bans

Terry Trippany
 

Open Thread

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NB Staff
 

"Today" Lines Up A Republican Story -- But Only Bush Surge Critics

Justin McCarthy
 

Rush Limbaugh Interviewed by NPR, Glenn Beck Claims Divisive Radio Cou

Tim Graham
 

GMA Clips Screechin' Hawkeye Hillary

Whoever produced GMA's segment on Hillary's prospects in Iowa is no big fan of the junior senator from New York. Among other things, the decidedly downbeat piece [from Clinton's perspective] reached back to 2003 for a clip of Hillary, campaigning in Iowa in 2003, screeching "it begins in Iowa and ends on Pennsylvania Avenue!" Not quite "sick and tired" screechy, but not a pretty sight by any…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Wash. Post Shows Balance in Climate Debate As Inconvenient Hassle For

Reporter Blaine Harden leaves out any critics of Al Gore's Oscar-nominated film.
Ken Shepherd
 

Is God Dead? Time Magazine Suggests Yes

Tim Graham
 

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: January 20 to

As the 2008 campaign heats up, members of the mainstream media are having trouble deciding between their old favorite (Hillary) and the new flame (Obama). Both CNN and ABC leapt to the defense of Senator Barack Obama after he was accused of attending an Islamic madrassah as a child. (Of course, ABC once devoted an entire episode of "Nightline" to murky allegations that George W. Bush did coke as…
Scott Whitlock
 

Hagel: American Troops Can't Win; Vieira: You're Sounding Presidentia

It's not uncommon for an interviewer to tell a guest offering orotund pronouncements that he's sounding "like a candidate." But Meredith Vieira took that one giant step further this morning, informing renegade Republican Chuck Hagel that he was sounding downright "presidential." Of course, nothing sounds more presidential to an MSMer's ears than defeatist criticism of the war in Iraq and by…
Mark Finkelstein
 

The NY Times Again Corrects Itself on John Kerry's "Botched Joke

Clay Waters
 

AP Runs Falsely Headlined Story: 'U.S., Iraqi troops clash in Baghdad

Bryan Preston at Hot Air, who recently returned from a trip to Iraq with Michelle Malkin, caught the misleading headline (still there) in a story by newly-promoted AP Baghdad news editor Kim Gamel: The headline conveys the obvious impression that our troops are fighting Iraqi soldiers and not terrorists/"insurgents." Based on the story that follows, the headline is obviously false. Bryan…
Tom Blumer
 

Washington Post Profiles Glenn Beck, Lines Up Leftists To Attack Him

Tim Graham
 

Reuters: Immigration Raid Causes 'Terror' Among Illegals

We all know the face of real terror. Nick Berg getting his head sawed off by a knife wielding Islamist, suicide bombers laying waste to mass transit in Israel, the World Trade Towers collapsing on the morning of 09/11/01. That is real terror. But, to Reuters, enforcing U.S. immigration laws is terror. The title of the Reuters piece sets the tone for the overwrought sentiment infused throughout…
Warner Todd Huston