CBS Off Track With NASCAR Comments

Dan Gainor
 

Jack Cafferty: I Look Foward To Trains Derailing

On yesterday's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty made an over the top statement comparing the upcoming Miers confirmation hearings to a train derailment. (transcript via Radio Blogger) Wolf: James Dobson's claims about Harriet Miers making it into the Cafferty File today. Jack is in New York, and he's smiling, as only Jack can do. Jack Cafferty: I love this. I mean, I...this is just going…
Ian Schwartz
 

CBS Challenges Marine Recruit's Linking of 9/11 and Battle in Iraq

After Monday's CBS Evening News showed a clip of a Marine recruit at Parris Island explaining that he volunteered because “I want to be fighting the evils that did what they did to us on September 11th," reporter Sharyn Alfonsi related how “all three of the recruits we sat down with say they enlisted because of September 11th.” Alfonsi, however, couldn't let such an apparent link between 9/11…
Brent Baker
 

More Bad News For America’s Newspapers

An article in today’s New York Times depicted a grim picture of the future of America’s newspaper industry. Stung by declining circulation rates, most of the nation’s major dailies are laying people off:“Such rethinking is sweeping newsrooms across the country as the industry faces a wave of job cuts, among them 700 announced since May at The New York Times Company, including its business…
Noel Sheppard
 

New York Magazine: Dan Rather May Have Doubted Memos All Along

Tim Graham
 

Denver Post: Free Speech = "Loopholes

Joshua Sharf
 

On PBS, Jim Lehrer Puts Justice Souter on the "So-Called Liberal Wing

Ken Shepherd
 

Kitty Kelley Continues to Heap Scorn on the Bush Family

The New York Times ran an op-ed this morning by controversial biographer Kitty Kelley. As the subject matter was George W. Bush, it should not be surprising that this article had nothing positive to say about the president:“SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice…
Noel Sheppard
 

Hollywood Delusion: New York Times Could Endorse GOP Presidential Cand

Only on fantasy television would anyone predict the New York Times would endorse a Republican presidential candidate, but that's what occurred on Sunday's episode of NBC's drama, The West Wing. On the October 9 show, the GOP nominee, California Senator “Arnie Vinick” (played by Alan Alda), lays out a series of proposals on immigration (such as doubling the border patrol), aimed to put his…
Brent Baker
 

NY Times: No-Bid Contracts Are Fine For Former Clinton Administration

Noel Sheppard
 

WashPost Mangles the Correction of "Novice Protester" Hoax: It's Not

Tim Graham
 

Journalists Hold Symposium on Media Bias... Only Invite Journalists

Greg Sheffield
 

Washington Post's Fletcher Oversells "National Consensus for Abortion

Tim Graham
 

Where Are The Apologies And/Or Retractions From the Washington Post an

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported yesterday that the levees in New Orleans were not overtopped by flood waters related to Katrina. Instead, as was reported by NBC News on September 29, and here on September 30, these levees broke due to construction failures related to the instability of the soil beneath them. Moreover, one of the contractors involved in their…
Noel Sheppard