The Contingency of 'Truth,' Redux

Jeff Goldstein
 

Nets Ignore Cynthia McKinney Entourage’s Election Night Meltdown

Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

The foiling of a terrorist plot to blow up American airplanes coming from the UK will be today's top story. Post here on it and anything else.
Matthew Sheffield
 

Expert Won't Let Lauer Slough Off Al-Qaeda Connection

Mark Finkelstein
 

Bill Maher on Leno: 'Ethnic Cleansing' at the Border, Bush the 'Idiot

Tim Graham
 

Jon Stewart Makes Lame Katrina Joke to Brian Williams

Tim Graham
 

CBS Links Lieberman Loss to 2,600 Killed, 'Infamous' Kiss Now 'Kiss of

Brent Baker
 

Ghosts in the Media Machine

Bloggers—and to a much lesser extent some media outlets—have paid considerable attention to specific examples of media manipulation in the war being fought between Hezbollah and the IDF in Lebanon and Israel, but we seem be under-covering the overall framing of the media's coverage, particularly when it comes to the subject matter chosen for coverage. This comes into sharp relief when…
Bob Owens
 

Ned Lamont, Closet Republican

That didn't take long. Just yesterday, Ned Lamont was the netroot hero, the pride of MoveOn.org, the scourge of the GOP. Today, Dem nomination in hand, he began his run toward the center - with a little help from his MSM friends. On this evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews scoffed at the fact that the RNC put Lamont's picture up on its website alongside Michael Moore, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily…
Mark Finkelstein
 

NY Times Ludicrously Celebrates Ned Lamont's Merry Band of 'Moderates

Clay Waters
 

Carlson, Bill Press Agree: W Too Soft On Israel, Cooper Wants to Feel

Tucker Carlson stopped short of saying that some of his best friends are Jewish. But he did let us know that "I love Israel, I think it's a wonderful place, I support it completely, I support it instinctively."That was just before he declared that "I think this war helps Hezbollah. I think it's bad for Israel, bad for the United States. I think you can love Israel and believe this war is a…
Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS Warns That 'Even One Bad Meal Can Hurt Your Body

Network story on saturated fat is the media's latest entree in a menu of anti-fast food stories.
Ken Shepherd
 

Robin Williams Enters Rehab Twelve Days After Ridiculing Rush Limbaugh

The National Enquirer reported Wednesday (hat tip to Drudge) that comedian Robin Williams has entered an alcohol rehab on July 11 to try and conquer “a three-year battle with booze that's threatening to destroy his marriage.” Though we certainly wish Williams well, it does seem rather odd that twelve days before he checked into the Hazelden Springbrook rehab facility in Newberg, Oregon, he was…
Noel Sheppard
 

Harry Smith's Utter Lack Of Political Knowledge

Michael Rule