Today Show Scares Parents with Misleading Report on School Bus Safety

If your morning coffee isn't strong enough to jolt you awake, just watch the Today show. The scaremongering should get your heart skipping a few beats.On today's edition, reporter Tom Costello picked up on a new study that urges seat belts be added to school buses. Among the findings of the study, 17,000 children a year are injured in school bus accidents.Nevermind that statistically, school…
Ken Shepherd
 

'Today' Show Hypes Bus Injury Study, Giving Support to More Regulation

But reporter Tom Costello left out how studies show seat belts do more harm than good.
Ken Shepherd
 

WaPo Shocker: ‘Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating R

This certainly wasn’t something I expected to see published just hours before a crucial election, but there it was in Monday’s Washington Post (hat tip to Patterico), “Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Results.” Granted, Josh White’s fabulous piece got relegated to page A13. But, let’s not look a gift-horse in the mouth (emphasis mine throughout):For the U.S. troops fighting in…
Noel Sheppard
 

PBS 'Washington Week' Panel Debates Kerry Gaffe: Is It a 'Flapdoodle

Tim Graham
 

Russert Aghast At 'Content to Lose' Jab; Columnist Says U.S. Must 'Acc

Rich Noyes
 

The Media's Long History of Distortion

Greg Sheffield
 

Newsweek Poll Bucks Trend: ‘GOP Has Lost More Ground

Noel Sheppard
 

The Rise of the Anti-war Media, and Its Importance

Today's Wall Street Journal online edition features an important essay by sociologist James Q. Wilson examining how the American press has turned into an unpatriotic and anti-war entity. He also explains why this matters: because educated people are likely to be swayed by the media's coverage of events, whether that coverage is accurate or not.A few excerpts:We are told by careful pollsters that…
Matthew Sheffield
 

White House Veteran Reporter Helen Thomas: 'I Will Be a Liberal Till t

The liberalism of White House eternal Helen Thomas isn't exactly a state secret, and she readily owned up to it in a sympathetic profile in the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. The White House bureau chief for United Press International since forever (until she quit when it was acquired by the company that owns the conservative Washington Times) at 87 she's now a syndicated columnist for Hearst…
Clay Waters
 

While Ted Haggard Is Pounded, Gay Gene Robinson Was Rewarded

Tim Graham
 

NY Times Frets Over Fairness of Saddam Trial, But Expert Calls It 'Mod

Mark Finkelstein
 

Matthews: 'I'm Smiling Because I Think It's Going To Be a Wipe-Out

Chris Matthews just couldn't wipe that grin off his face.  Interviewing him on this morning's 'Today,' Meredith Vieira began by suggesting that despite the tough electoral environment for Republicans, polls over the weekend were showing movement in their direction. She started to pose a question, but so distracting was Matthews' mugging that she couldn't continue, asking instead "why are you…
Mark Finkelstein
 

NBC's Williams Says Dems Are Measuring Drapes; ABC's Vargas in Feminis

Tim Graham
 

AP: Syria wants 'Peace', Israel Against it... Bias There

Warner Todd Huston