Dionne's Siren Song To GOP: Renounce Reagan, Embrace Bill

Mark Finkelstein

An Inconvenient Truth: Olbermann Bullies the National Science Teachers

Amy Ridenour

Another Pre-election Myth Debunked: Seniors Love New Medicare Drug Ben

Noel Sheppard

Bogus Source Cited in NBC 'Civil War' Decision

A transcript posted at the blog Think Progress quotes NBC as factoring in a story from now-discredited source Jamil Hussein about Sunni worshippers being burned alive as a major factor in NBC's decision to declare a "civil war" in Iraq [emphasis added]:The news from Iraq is becoming grimmer every day. Over the long holiday weekend bombings killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood in…
Al Brown

Olbermann Suggests NBC's Iraq 'Civil War' is a 'Walter Cronkite Moment

Brad Wilmouth

NB's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes About NBC's Decision to Declare Iraq a

Brent Bozell, the President of the Media Research Center, the parent of NewsBusters, appeared alongside Democratic strategist Laura Schwartz on Monday night's Hannity & Colmes on FNC to discuss the decision by NBC News to call the situation in Iraq a “civil war.” (Earlier NewsBusters items by Mark Finkelstein and by Geoffrey Dickens on how on Today Matt Lauer insisted NBC made the decision “…
NB Staff

FNC's Cal Thomas Names Keith Olbermann Turkey of the Year

Brad Wilmouth

NBC Concedes Iraq 'Civil War' Description Could 'Erode' Support, ABC

Twelve hours after the Today show repeatedly announced how NBC News had decided to call the situation in Iraq a “civil war,” as if that decision was major news itself, Monday's NBC Nightly News led with the term and conceded it could “erode” public support for the war. Meanwhile, CBS and ABC didn't go quite as far as CBS's Katie Couric referred to how Iraq “slips ever-closer to civil war” and ABC…
Brent Baker

Charles Rangel Won't Accept Fox Facts in Front of Him, Makes Kerry-lik

Justin McCarthy

Failure to Launch: Media Hype Epidemic of 20-Somethings Living with th

Another exasperating storyline from the MSM: the economy may be just fine overall but its screwing over 20-somethings who have to live with mom and dad.My colleague Dan Gainor wrote up a review of the media's reheating the tired old storyline: In the November 26 “World News Sunday” story “Young & in Debt,” anchor Dan Harris talked up the story about twentysomethings “forced…
Ken Shepherd

Stories Lament Twentysomethings 'Forced' to Live with Parents

Media depict young adults struggling with debt but talk little about poor choices that got them there.
Dan Gainor

AP Makes It Even Worse

Dan Riehl

CBS's Lara Logan Declares US Defeated In Iraq; General Abizaid Dispute

Michael Rule

In Clunky Newscasts, NBC News Decrees Iraq In 'Civil War' [Transcript

Geoffrey Dickens