Kurtz Bashes Stossel: Partisan Person Goes To Partisan Network To Do P

Howard Kurtz must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed Sunday, for his "Reliable Sources" review of John Stossel's new Fox Business Network show was uncharacteristically way off base.After presenting a cherry-picked video clip of Stossel talking about how he wished Nobel Laureate Al Gore would come on the program to debate man's role in global warming, Kurtz asked guest David Zurawik, "[D]…
Noel Sheppard

Matthews Frets Over ‘Idiots’ in America ‘Riling’ Up ‘White T

Brad Wilmouth

For Conservatives Online, Plenty of Commentary But Not Enough News

A number of the conservative movement's prominent online figures are battling to be the right's equivalent of Talking Points Memo or Huffington Post--political organizations that report hard news. Many believe that to truly harness the power of the Web, political organizations must report their own news, rather than comment on reporitng from traditional outlets."The left needs Daily Kos, but they…
Lachlan Markay

Huffington: Afghanistan 'Immoral' & 'Dumb War,' Liberal Podesta 'Sound

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, December 13, during the show’s Roundtable segment, liberal blogger Arianna Huffington argued that the war in Afghanistan is "the gold standard of a dumb war, immoral and unnecessary," during a discussion of President Obama’s recent speech at West Point announcing that he would send more troops to Afghanistan, and his speech in Oslo accepting the…
Brad Wilmouth

Eliot Spitzer's Call Girl Gets Her Own Advice Column - 'Ask Ashley

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's high-priced call girl Ashley Dupre has landed herself an advice column at the New York Post:Sure, she's made some mistakes. But now Ashley Dupre, the former escort who brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer, is sharing what she's learned in her new sex, love and relationship column -- exclusively in the New York Post. Is your husband cheating? Is your daughter on…
Noel Sheppard

Sunday NFL Open Thread

What are today's big games and big upsets?
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: you tell us.
NB Staff

Wanda Sykes Rips Alleged Lack of Racial Diversity at Fox News in Off-C

It might seem a little strange to see Fox News bashed on its Fox broadcast parent network, but that's what you would have witnessed if you tuned into "The Wanda Sykes Show," Saturday night's late-night alternative to NBC's "Saturday Night Live." On the Dec. 12 broadcast of "The Wanda Sykes Show," Sykes, made famous for her attacks on conservative talker Rush Limbaugh and former Alaska Gov. Sarah…
Jeff Poor

SNL: Cheating Politicians Don't Get The Airplay Tiger Woods Does

"Saturday Night Live" opened yesterday's show by mocking media for supposedly under-reporting the extra-marital affairs of three politicians, but the sketch completely ignored how the press boycotted the philandering of Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards for nine months.The program's producers also opted not to include disgraced former Democrat Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer in the…
Noel Sheppard

Public Radio Host: Our Bias Keeps Right-Wingers Alive on the Road

Tim Graham

Fox News Anchors Debunk Lefty Claim Network’s an 'Organ' of GOP in G

One of the favorite talking points that often comes from Fox News detractors is the claim that the News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) cable news is somehow an organ of the Republican Party. It's a claim that former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn made, along with countless other accusations from prominent Democrats. However, these Democrats would be doing themselves and their audiences a…
Jeff Poor

'Welcome to Obamaville' Sign At Homeless Tent City, Media Mum

A sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville Colorado's Fastest Growing Community" appeared at a homeless tent city in Colorado Springs this week.You probably didn't hear about it because outside of two Colorado television stations nobody found this newsworthy.By contrast, when word got out in March of a tent city in Sacramento, California, news media couldn't get enough of the story.Is it because that…
Noel Sheppard

Cal Thomas: Scientists 'Can't Get the Grants if They Don't Toe the Lin

While it is not uncommon to see those who are climate change skeptics challenged in the media for having a pro-business financial interest in voicing their views, on Saturday's Fox News Watch, conservative columnist and regular panel member Cal Thomas made an observation that cuts in the opposite direction rarely given attention in the mainstream media -- that there are financial incentives that…
Brad Wilmouth

Al Gore's Current TV Rips Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

Following in comedian Jon Stewart's footsteps, Al Gore's Current TV mocked President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony Friday.In a "SuperNews" segment, animator Josh Faure-Brac showed Nobel Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland getting uncomfortable with the idea of giving the President a peace prize while he's sending 30,000 more troops to war.Frustrated by the exchange, Obama turned the tables on Jagland…
Noel Sheppard