Olbermann Asserts Snow Pick Will Merge FNC's “Bias” With White Hou

Brent Baker

NBC Uses Staff Changes to Resurrect Plame; CBS Sees Metaphor in Ground

Of the three broadcast network evening newscasts, the NBC Nightly News delivered the most negative assessment of the situation facing a White House which made some personnel changes, with reporter David Gregory using the moves as a chance to resurrect the Plame case and to maintain, in an amazing coincidence of his personal agenda matching that of “Republicans I've been talking to,” that “the…
Brent Baker

The First Draft of the Wrong Side of History

After hearing that Sami Al-Arian confessed to a dirty laundry list of terrorism related activities, I was eager to see how the liberal St. Petersburg Times would handle the story. Today they posted an editorial about "The Real Al-Arian," writing about all the horrible things he has done and lies he told. But is that an accurate account of the role the Times played in defending him? Maybe when…
Mithridate Ombud

Dennis Quaid Promotes Bush Satirization On Today

Geoffrey Dickens

PBS's Gwen Ifill Dizzy From Republican Spin

Michael Rule

Media Amnesia: Gen. Zinni Briefed Clinton Administration on Secret Ira

In the past couple of weeks, you haven’t been able to swing a dead cat without hitting some retired general complaining about the war in Iraq, and how that nation and its leader represented no imminent threat to America or the globe. One of the more prominent members of the hindsight is 20/20 crowd is former Clinton CENTCOM commander Gen. Anthony Zinni who has now conspicuously stated that he…
Noel Sheppard

Earth Day Special

BMI Staff

Why Are We Over a Barrel

Networks blame big, bad oil but skip threats, taxes and increased demand.
Dan Gainor

Americans innocent, but guilty from eating

Journalists continue to pound people about diet, so is it any wonder we dont like food any more?
Ken Shepherd

Too Hot Not to Handle

HBOs Earth Day global warming special is high-octane propaganda intent on changing Americas prosperous habits.
Amy Menefee

Alaska Pipeline Doomsayings Revisited

As PBS releases a special about the oil delivery system, the Business & Media Institute goes back in time to recall environmentalists pipe dream: stopping it.
R. Warren Anderson

Liberal Former Time Writer Reflects On "Patriot-ization" Of Her Little

Remember former Time contributor Nina Burleigh? She won our Quote of the Year award in 1998 for proclaiming to the Washington Post: "I would be happy to give him [Clinton] a blow job just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs." She also was a runner-up…
Tim Graham

Anti-Bush Pulitzers Represent 'Discontent' Among Populace

Greg Sheffield

'Early' Finds Only One Side of Rumsfeld Debate

The CBS Early Show this morning continued its tradition of "fair and balanced" reporting, as they addressed the interminable firestorm that has surrounded Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, seemingly since he was first appointed 5 1/2 years ago. They addressed the Rumsfeld issue twice in the first hour, and both times the focus was on the critics and criticism. There were no defenders of…
Lyford Beverage