ChiTrib Blogger Fails to Do Homework, Presents One-sided Story on Bap

Reporting on a decision by LifeWay Christian Stores to not promote a magazine whose cover story lauded female pastors, Chicago Tribune religion reporter Manya Brachear stacked the deck against the Christian bookseller, failing to speak to a staffer there for an explanation of a policy decision on a magazine the stores carry on their shelves. Yet if she had done her homework, Brachear may have…
Ken Shepherd

CBS: ‘Some Conservatives’ Want Palin Off the Ticket

Kyle Drennen

ABC Highlights 'Palin Problem;' Has Ignored Biden Gaffes

"Good Morning America" reporter David Wright on Monday highlighted the specter of the "Palin Problem" for John McCain and asserted that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's advisors "are trying to lower expectations. But even among some conservatives, expectations couldn't be any lower." Yet, while the ABC morning show mentioned the supposed struggles of the Republican vice presidential candidate, the…
Scott Whitlock

'Your $$$$$' Squabble: Experts Argue over 'Socialist' Bailout

Peter Schiff blasts government for intervening in markets and argues against bailout while Stephen Leeb promotes Congressional plan.
Lauren O'Reilly

Mitchell Uses Tina Fey to Pick On Palin

On Monday's "Today" show, NBC's Andrea Mitchell loved Tina Fey's parodying of Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," so much that she played a clip the "30 Rock" star mocking Palin's inexperience, while simultaneously airing an actual clip of Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric, as Mitchell charged: "the reviews have been withering for her interview with Katie Couric, only her third since…
Geoffrey Dickens

MRC's Bozell Analyzes the Debate Coverage on Fox News Channel

Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher L. Brent Bozell, III appeared this morning on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends to discuss the media's nearly unanimous acclamation of Illinois Senator Barack Obama as the winner of last Friday's Presidential debate.Mr. Bozell noted one of the few press exceptions, Newsweek, who gave the nod to Arizona Senator John McCain, but…
NB Staff

CNN Kills Two Biased Birds with One Stone

CNN’s Web site this morning tracked a developing story involving the stock market opening, by featuring a photo of an Iran anti-war protest. The photo, provided by our friends at the AP, was simply too perfect to pass up apparently. After all, any photo which includes a man brandishing a banner which reads ‘Jail Bush,’ is something that a biased news organization simply has to take.…
Rusty Weiss

CBS's Schieffer Leads Obama Through Bashing of Republican Ticket

In what Bob Schieffer of CBS News's "Face the Nation" promoted as the first interview of Sen. Barack Obama following the first presidential debate, “broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter,” according to CBSNews.com, made no effort to critique Obama’s debate answers and performance, but instead led the Democratic candidate into an hour-long bashing of the Republican ticket.…
Lee Boggs

Open Thread

NB Staff

AP Prober Chides Palin for Accepting 'Awesome Facial

Tim Graham

'Fight the Smears' Website Admits Obama was Kenyan Citizen: Where's th

P.J. Gladnick

State Run Canadian Media Corp. Apologizes for Palin-Smearing Article

**Video Below The Fold** Well, it took them long enough, but the State run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has finally apologized for the obscene attack on Governor Sarah Palin that appeared on September 5 that we covered on the 19th. Heather Mallick called McCain a "hateful little man," called Republicans and Palin "white trash," and also called Palin a "porn actress" in her two…
Warner Todd Huston

Missouri Sheriffs' and Prosecutors' Obama 'Truth Squad' Getting Old Me

What if I told you that sheriffs and prosecutors in, say, Indiana, had formed "truth squads" and "subtly" threatened prosecutions of critics of John McCain? Does anyone think that the New York Times, Washington Post and Old Media in general wouldn't be putting the news on the front page, even with the bailout-apalooza going on in Washington? Well, there is a "truth squad." It's in Missouri. It…
Tom Blumer

Maher's Misconceived Call to Arms

Early reviews of Religulous indicate the movie doesn't inspire atheists, it mocks believers.
Colleen Raezler