NYT: U.S. Defying 'Freedom of the Press' in Iraq

Clay Waters
 

Another Poll You Won’t Hear About: Confidence in War on Terror Way U

As has been reported by NewsBusters before, the mainstream media largely ignore the polling work of Scott Rasmussen. Certainly, it is quite unlikely they will report polling data that he just released concerning how Americans feel the War on Terror is going:“December 2, 2005--Confidence in the War on Terror is up sharply compared to a month ago. Forty-eight percent (48%)  Americans now believe…
Noel Sheppard
 

WashPost's Robin Givhan Raves At Saddam's "Stud" Suit, "Dressing Down

Tim Graham
 

Silent Night of the Grinches as Today Show Airs Pro-Christmas Tree Sto

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS Distorts Bush, Pace Quotes to Support Charge of Iraq War "Mistakes

Brad Wilmouth
 

AP: Once Again, Gulf of Tonkin Story Shows Vietnam Just Like Iraq

Joshua Sharf
 

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…a Very Good Christmas

The media’s pessimistic holiday shopping forecasts fail to register with reality.Don't miss my latest at the Free Market Project:  Contrary to the media’s pessimistic forecasts for the Christmas shopping season reported by the Free Market Project in late October, strong retail sales this Thanksgiving weekend got the annual end-of-the-year buying bonanza off to a bang. In fact, the economic data…
Noel Sheppard
 

Alan Colmes Suggested Iraq's WMD "Destroyed By Bill Clinton

Dave Pierre
 

News Media Ignored Lieberman, But Leno Pressed Dean About Senator's St

Brent Baker
 

MRC's Brent Bozell Interviews Mary Mapes

Must see TV this weekend: The MRC's Brent Bozell talks to fired CBS News producer Mary Mapes this Saturday on C-SPAN2's "After Words." From the C-SPAN web site:"This week on 'After Words' journalist Mary Mapes explains her investigative story on George W. Bush's National Guard record that aired on 60 Minutes II. Her new book about the experience is titled Truth and Duty: The Press, The President…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Couric to Drop Anchor at CBS

After rejecting overtures from CBS earlier this year, Katie Couric is being actively courted by new CBS News president Sean McManus, the L.A. Times reports:While the 48-year-old morning host is contemplating the offer, sources said, it's unclear whether she can formally negotiate a new job until her NBC contract expires in May. NBC News President Steve Capus said the network hopes to hold on to…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Would You Confuse a "Headless Body" With "the Bottom Half of a Man

Mark Tapscott
 

CNN’s Cooper Yearns for a Cronkite on Iraq, Amanpour Suggests France

CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night speculated about whether America has reached a Walter Cronkite Vietnam war assessment "tipping point" as Cooper set up a laudatory profile of anti-war Republican Congressman Walter Jones. After an ad break, Cooper went to Christiane Amanpour who asked French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin if he feels his anti-war efforts have now been "vindicated?"…
Brent Baker
 

Blast from the Past: Moyers Ordered Dirt on Goldwater Staffers

Bill Moyers, the departed PBS host who has repeatedly condemned the Bush Administration for its support of the Patriot Act for allegedly being too intrusive in Americans' lives apparently has some experience in the matter.In a column released today, Robert Novak reveals that during the 1964 presidential campaign while working for Lyndon Johnson, Moyers asked FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to dig…
Matthew Sheffield