Silly Kids, Balanced Reporting Is For Grown-Ups

Today's KidsPost section of The Washington Post gives young readers an introduction to the anti-artistic agenda of the smoke nazis. Reporter Susan Levine gave The American Legacy Foundation plenty of ink to promote their cause in today's article "Hollywood Not Yet Kicking Butts."Basically they think any movie involving fictional characters that smoke should merit an automatic R-rating. A picture…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS Producer Says NBC's 'Civil War' Pronouncement a Political Statemen

Greg Sheffield
 

Unhealthy Bias in Implant Stories, Then and Now

Media return to complaints about silicone breast implants, despite FDA decision to end 14-year ban.
Julia A. Seymour
 

Preview: ABC's John Stossel Highlights Greater Conservative Charitable

ABC’s John Stossel is well known for his libertarian views and for challenging liberal conventional wisdom. On Wednesday’s Good Morning America, Stossel was at it again as he debunked the widely held perception that liberals are more generous in their charitable contributions than conservatives. As part of a 20/20 special airing Wednesday night, Stossel interviewed Syracuse University professor…
Megan McCormack
 

Will Media Demand a Post-Retreat Return to Iraq

Noel Sheppard
 

Dowd Column: Fair Advocacy Or Exploitation Of A Fallen Hero

Mark Finkelstein
 

WashPost: Using 'Civil War' To Define Iraq Undercuts Public Opinion

In one of those "analysis" pieces reporters love to write, Washington Post White House reporter Peter Baker underlined on Wednesday one reason why NBC might have started using "civil war" to define Iraq: it severely undercuts the Iraq war in opinion polls.Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said Bush would rather frame it in the terrorism context to preserve public…
Tim Graham
 

Byron York: WashPost, N.Y. Times Avoided Alcee Hastings Story Like the

Tim Graham
 

Olbermann Hits Fox News Watch for Naming Olbermann 'Turkey of the Year

Brad Wilmouth
 

Gregory Ignores Pelosi's Flub, Treats Retort to Bush on al-Qaeda in Ir

Asked by a reporter about how “President Bush today blamed the surge of violence in Iraq on al Qaeda,” incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded with a disjointed answer about how “the 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the President is resorting to it again." Though al-Qaeda is clearly in Iraq and responsible for deadly bombings, and the 9/11…
Brent Baker
 

'Hardball,' My Foot: David Shuster Treats Jimmy Carter as Middle East

Mark Finkelstein
 

Bozell Column: Who's Soft on Propaganda

If we were to believe liberals, the last several years could be dubbed the Age of Propaganda, what scandalized columnist Frank Rich, who knows quite a lot about this subject, calls the “decline and fall of truth.”They complained when government agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services put out “video news releases” that some lax TV stations aired without editing. They complained…
Brent Bozell
 

McLaughlin Group Hypes Man-Made Global Warming, Calls Naysayers 'Neand

Michael Rule
 

Same NBC That Boldly Claims 'Civil War' Can't Always Call Hezbollah 'T

Tim Graham