Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organize

Multi-millionaire filmmaker James Cameron on Sunday backed out of a global warming debate that he asked for and organized. For those that haven't been following the recent goings on concerning Nobel Laureate Al Gore's favorite money-making myth, an environmental summit was held this weekend in Aspen, Colorado, called AREDAY, which is short for American Renewable Energy Day.Ahead of this…
Noel Sheppard

Wisconsin Newspaper Does Puff Piece on Ayers-Like Domestic Terrorist

How does the Wisconsin State Journal remember the 40 year anniversary of a radical Ayers-like bombing on the UW-Madison campus?  By posting a little puff piece on one of the killers, of course. On August 24, 1970, Karleton Armstrong and three other men perpetrated the worst act of domestic terrorism prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, detonating a bomb-laden vehicle outside of Sterling Hall,…
Rusty Weiss

Time's Mark Halperin: 9/11 Families Need to Be Led Through a Discussio

Time magazine's Mark Halperin engaged in the ultimate condescension Monday morning, arguing that families of 9/11 victims need to be guided by others into the Ground Zero mosque debate."For the families of the victims of 9/11, whatever emotions they want to have, I respect and I honor. But somebody needs to lead them through a discussion," Time's senior political analyst lectured on MSNBC's "…
Matt Hadro

Follow-Up: ‘Today’ Wedding Contest Features Only Straight Couples

Nathan Burchfiel

Bias Over Easy: Morning Shows Serve up Soft Boiled Questions for FDA C

ABC, CBS, and NBC morning shows egg on FDA chief about increased authority, never mention FDA's $318 million budget increase.
Kyle Gillis

CBS 'Early Show': Can Obama Fix 'Image Problem' and Bring Back 'Campai

Opening Saturday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge proclaimed: "Image Problem: The President is on vacation and under fire. From the jobless numbers to the Mosque mess – why is the man with the soaring rhetoric having such a hard time getting his message across?" The headline on screen during the later segment read: "Image Issues; Can Obama's Team Bring Campaign Magic Back?"Introducing the…
Kyle Drennen

Hannity, Bozell Tackle Media Bias Surrounding Ground Zero Mosque Issue

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ABC's Bianna Golodryga Knocks Franklin Graham for 'Adding to the Confu

[Updated] Good Morning America co-host Bianna Golodryga on Saturday chided the Reverend Franklin Graham, complaining that "one of the country's leading evangelicals is adding to the confusion" over Barack Obama's religion. Reporter Jake Tapper then played a clip of Graham being interviewed on CNN: "He was born a Muslim. His father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father. He's…
Scott Whitlock

Washingtonians 'Furious' at Opening of 'Barack Obama Elementary School

Ken Shepherd

Today Show Advances WikiLeaks Founder's Charge That Pentagon is Smeari

On Monday's Today show, NBC's Matt Lauer opened the show suggesting that Julian Assange was was being smeared by the Pentagon as the Today co-anchor teased: "And payback? The founder of WikiLeaks, the Web site that leaked classified war documents, briefly named in a rape case in Sweden. He says he's innocent. Those charges have been dropped and now he suggests it's all part of a Pentagon smear…
Geoffrey Dickens

NewsBusters 5th Anniversary: A Look Back at Some of Our Top Posts of O

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Open Thread: 'Democrats That Don't Care and Republicans That Don't Dar

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In July, LA School Officials Defended RFK Taj Mahal K-12 Complex as 'M

Well, it didn't take to much digging to find people who think that the $578 million cost of the new Taj Mahal complex known as the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles (pictured at right; noted last night at NewsBusters and BizzyBlog) isn't that big of a deal. What I found makes me wonder why it took so long for waste of this magnitude to become a national story. On July 9, at LA'…
Tom Blumer

E! Writer: ‘True Blood’ Rape and Murder ‘Highly Ironic,’ ‘Gr

E! Online "The Awful Truth" columnist Ted Casablanca on Aug. 21 called the graphic depictions of sex and violence on HBO's vampire drama "True Blood" "highly ironic" and promoted the show as "great fun." Casablanca defended the show on Fox News Channel's "Geraldo at Large" in a discussion with host Geraldo Rivera and Culture and Media Institute Assistant Editor Nathan Burchfiel. The debate was…
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