ABC Devoted 64 Minutes to 'Pregnant Man' Story Since March

Since March 26, 2008, the ABC network has devoted nine segments or 64 minutes and 48 seconds to the "pregnant man" Thomas Beatie, including three stories in the last four days on either "20/20" or "Good Morning America." On Monday, GMA weekend anchor Kate Snow invited Beatie, who was born a woman but kept her reproductive organs after having transgender surgery, to discuss the autobiography "…
Scott Whitlock

Dear WSJ: Anti-Intellectualism on the Left and Right

Taking from the rich will enrich the poor, wage floors, politics can be 'cleansed' of special interests.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

CBS’s Smith on Obama: ‘Can A Guy Who's Cool Be President

On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith touted the latest issue of ‘GQ’ magazine, in which Barack Obama was named one of the publication’s ‘Men of the Year’: "As If being elected president isn't a high enough honor, Barack Obama is now the quintessential 'GQ' guy." Later, Smith talked to ‘GQ’ deputy editor Michael Hainey and asked: " Is there -- is -- do you have this little bit of a…
Kyle Drennen

Dear Post: 'Too Big to Fail' Gets it Wrong

Failure is vital for unproductive companies, especially the big ones.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

'Good Morning America' Attacks Victoria's Secret with Faulty Bra Lawsu

Victoria's Secret, the well-known lingerie retailer, is being sued by a woman who claims the company's bra had formaldehyde in it and made her "utterly sick." ABC's "Good Morning America" ran a segment Nov. 11 focusing on that 37-year-old Ohio woman, Roberta Ritter. "Victoria's Secret - certainly one of the world's most recognizable brands," anchor Diane Sawyer said. "And this morning, though,…
Jeff Poor

ABC 7 Chicago Gushes: Michelle 'Breaks Barriers for African-Americans

ABC Channel 7 in Chicago aired a "Special Report" on Sunday night, November 16, in which they gushed that Michelle Obama was going to "break down barriers" for America's black women. Reporter Cheryl Burton waxed poetic, moon-eyed over the fact that a black woman was soon take her place as first lady of the United States, wife to the president. But, that's just it... wife to the president. Not to…
Warner Todd Huston

'Good Morning America' Highlights Questionable Victoria's Secret Lawsu

ABC report omits plaintiff's history of litigation, promotes her claim that Secret Embrace bra caused illness.
Jeff Poor

Murdoch: Newspaper Editors and Reports Betrayed Readers' Trust

Rupert Murdoch thinks the newspaper industry will survive its current downturn, but that many editors, reporters, and owners will not.The reason for their likely demise is that many of them betrayed the trust of their readers: "It takes no special genius to point out that if you are contemptuous of your customers, you are going to have a hard time getting them to buy your product."As reported by…
Noel Sheppard

Brian Williams, Parade Magazine's Foie Gras Phony

Tim Graham

Morning Joe Doesn't Dig Being Called 'Socialist

Joe Scarborough didn't cotton to being called a "socialist," but that's just the label Krystia Freeland laid on him during today's Morning Joe.  The Financial Times editor used the s-word to describe what she mockingly described as Joe's "touching faith" in the wisdom of government bureaucrats when it comes to reorganizing Detroit automakers.The Morning Joe host didn't take the insult lying down.…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

NB Staff

PBS Nova Series Declares Bill Maher Right: Old Testament Just a 'Book

Perhaps the PBS Nova producers should have consulted the Naked Archaeologist or The Bible as History before making a show whose purpose is to debunk the Old Testament. Here is the description of the special two hour edition of Nova as reported by Reuters/Hollywood Reporter:LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Bill Maher, on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher," frequently refers to the Old Testament…
P.J. Gladnick

Scare-Mongering on Steroids: NBC Warns Oceans Could Rise 200 Feet

Forget Al Gore's measly 20-foot sea level rise from "An Inconvenient Truth."  That's small potatoes compared to the kind of catastrophe Meredith Vieira was talking about last night.  Kicking off NBC's Global Alarmism Green Week during the halftime of Sunday Night Football, Vieira raised the spectre of the seas rising . . . 200 feet!  Al imagined much of Manhattan under water, but if Meredith's…
Mark Finkelstein

WaPo Football Writer Mocks Joe the Plumber in NFL Wrapup

While the vast majority of political reporters have dropped off the snotty comments about the McCain-Palin ticket and their campaign messaging, that’s not true of the football writers at the Washington Post. In the chatty wrap-up of the NFL scores appropriately called "The Slant," Post sports writer Desmond Bieler could be called for unnecessary roughness on Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher. In…
Tim Graham