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NPR Says NB's 'Absurd,' Tells Fox News It's Fair and Balanced on Praye
Foxnews.com picked up my NewsBusters blog post on National Public Radio's pagan-witch correspondent Margot Adler suggesting she just happened upon the president of the New York City Atheists in front of a "prayer booth" art project in New York City. An NPR publicist suggested NewsBusters was "absurd" and found nothing biased in the story at all: NPR vehemently denied that its coverage was opposed…
Surveying the NB Landscape
Got a few moments this evening? Please take a little bit of time to fill out our annual reader demographic survey in conjunction with our advertising partner BlogAds. The more info we get, the more revenue we'll be able to receive next year which means more resources to bust the news. Give us a click if you get a sec. Last year's NB numbers are here. To see how we compared with other blogs, visit…
Bloomberg: Chocolate's the Cure for Economic Woes
Financial reporter shows cocoa commodities directly correlated to unemployment rate.
CNBC Demonstrates Why Liberals Don't Understand Economics
Doesn't it amaze you when some liberal media member actually claims that raising taxes is good for the economy, and uses the Clinton Era to prove his or her specious point? Such transpired Tuesday afternoon when CNBC's Trish Regan invited liberal columnist David Sirota on to discuss president-elect Barack Obama's plans to get the economy rolling again. True to the liberal motif, Sirota spoke…
ABC’s Claire Shipman: Obama, Geithner 'Could Have Been Separated At
ABC correspondent Claire Shipman lauded President-Elect Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary-Designate Tim Geithner on Tuesday’s Good Morning America: “It might not be immediately obvious, but insiders say the President-Elect and his pick for the top economic spot could have been separated at birth.” She later quoted The Economist’s line about the future top bureaucrat, that both Obama and Geithner…
CBS Offers Cartoon Defense of Obama Stimulus Plan
In an effort to explain Barack Obama’s call for a $500 billion stimulus package on Monday’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Harry Smith patronized viewers as he turned to Fast Draw artists Josh Landis and Mitch Butler, who created an animated cartoon on the subject, promoting Obama’s public works program. Butler explained: "When the economy slows down, people look for a pick-me-up." Landis added…
'Guilty': Ann Coulter's New Book Attacks Obama Media
The name and subject matter of Ann Coulter's new book has finally been revealed.Entitled "Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America," the book, which has been available for pre-order at Amazon.com, "exposes and mocks, in graphic detail, the media's love affair with all things Democrat and Obama."As reported by Drudge Tuesday:
NYT Reporter Warns: 'Arrogant...Inflammatory' Free Market Radical Set
New York Times European correspondent Dan Bilefsky bizarrely relayed the contents of a secret police file from the former Communist state of Czechoslovakia to boost his argument that Vaclav Klaus, the new president of the European Union, is a dangerously arrogant proponent of the free market. Bilefksy's Tuesday story from Prague, "A Fiery Czech Is Poised to Be the Face of Europe," read more like…
Colmes Says Goodbye: With Obama In, 'My Work Is Done
As most Fox News fans are aware, Alan Colmes is going to be leaving the hit show "Hannity & Colmes."Readers have voiced their opinions about this here and here. At the end of Monday's program, Alan briefly explained his decision, and had a very charming exchange with his longtime co-host Sean Hannity (video embedded below the fold courtesy our dear friend Johnny Dollar):
YouTube's Double Standard On Protests
YouTube is promoting as its "citizen news report of the day" a video of an alleged attack on Greenpeace activists at a coal plant in Poland. There are two problems with the news judgment behind this video selection.First, both the initial report on the video and YouTube's description of it overstate what actually happened. Watch the video for yourself and see. Aside from some unjustifiable…
Unbylined AP Report: Krugman 'Opposed Bailout
The Associated Press can't even get it right in a three-paragraph item about a White House ceremonial event.In a story Monday afternoon about President Bush's meeting with two Nobel Prize-winning scientists and Nobel Economics winner Paul Krugman, the unbylined AP writer claimed that Krugman opposed the government's financial bailout. Evidence abounds that this is not only not the case, but that…
Obama Picks Economic Team, CBS Gets Reaction...From Obama
On Monday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Dean Reynolds reported on Barack Obama's announcement of an economic team, but instead of getting reaction from Republicans or financial experts, Reynolds decided to stick with the president-elect himself: "Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, as Treasury secretary. Obama said Geithner has an 'unparalleled understanding of…