At Least They're Consistent

Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, following are some of the Chicken Little writings of the New York Times and Time Magazine over the years. Time, Sept. 10, 1923: "The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjecture of the possible advent of a new ice age." NYT, Sept. 18, 1924: "MacMillan Reports Signs of New…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Lloyd Bentsen's Biggest Lifetime Achievement: Zinging Dan Quayle

Scott Whitlock
 

Meet Charlie Gibson, ABC's New Anchorman

ABC News has officially picked Good Morning America co-host Charles Gibson to shore up World News Tonight. Is that good news for conservatives? Well, when he hosted the 2004 town-hall style debate between President Bush and John Kerry, Gibson chose a balanced set of questions that equally represented liberal and conservative concerns. Good for him -- that’s a balancing act that previous town…
Rich Noyes
 

Couric Concludes Coupons and Cuts Key to Crunch

Mark Finkelstein
 

NBC's Hurricane Expert Scorns Team Bush, But Gives Thumbs Up to Nagin

Tim Graham
 

CBS’s Borger Spins Democrat Jefferson’s Corruption Into Bad News f

Gloria Borger concluded her Monday CBS Evening News story on the FBI’s weekend confiscation of cash from a freezer in Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson’s home by declaring a pox on both parties: “At a time when 77 percent of the American public believes that all members of Congress take bribes, Congressman Jefferson's troubles help no one in either party.” Unlike ABC anchor…
Brent Baker
 

Matthews: U.S. in Iraq No Better Than 'Colonial Masters

Mark Finkelstein
 

ABC News Radio Failed To Identify Rep. Jefferson as Democrat

Dave Pierre
 

NPR's Totenberg Compares U.S. to Communist East Germany

Michael Rule
 

Statistical Rigor at NBC's 'Dateline

Mithridate Ombud
 

Mel Gibson Slams 'Da Vinci Code

Greg Sheffield
 

Parade on the March Again, Downbeat on Economy

Magazine leaves out strong economy, Bernankes forecast of soft landing in housing.
Ken Shepherd
 

NYT Publisher Sulzberger Goes on a Left-Wing Rant at Graduation

As keynote commencement speaker, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr."apologized" to graduates at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Sunday for the failure of his generation to stop the Iraq War and to sufficiently promote "fundamental human rights" like abortion, immigration, and gay marriage.Paul Kirby of Kingston's Daily Freeman quoted from Sulzberger's address, which…
Clay Waters
 

ABC Employs Former Gun Control Activist to Cover NRA

AR15.com notices that ABC News used a former Salon.com writer and former employee of Handgun Control Inc. to cover the National Rifle Association You may have noticed the byline on ABC News recent story covering the NRAs pledge to ask mayors and police chiefs to sign a petition stating they will uphold their legal duties not to confiscate weapons from law-abiding citizens during time of…
Greg Sheffield