Puffy Denver Post Piece on Mrs. Obama: She's Keepin' It Real

"Authenticity a priority for the other Obama," blares the headline for a puffy July 17 Denver Post story on the Illinois senator's wife Michelle Obama. The story by staffers Suzanne Brown and Dana Coffield lamented that: Michelle Obama's life as a contemporary political wife has been rocky at times. Her work life has been scrutinized. Papers she wrote as a senior in college have been dredged up…
Ken Shepherd

Network Anchors Join Obama World Tour, Little Coverage for McCain Trav

While Thursday’s New York Times reported that the anchors from all three network newscasts will be joining Barack Obama on his trip to Iraq, they showed no such interest in following John McCain during his visit to Iraq in March. During the week of March 16, McCain’s trip received only four full-length stories during the combined ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news program coverage. Three of those…
Kyle Drennen

ABC, NBC Say Economy Is Having Opposite Effects on Divorce Rates

NBC says economy is keeping marriages together; ABC says it's splitting them up.
Kelly Brown

Open Thread

NB Staff

Network News Anchors to Travel to Iraq With Obama

If the reports are true, Barack Obama has gone from Democrat presidential candidate to an out and out media star.According to the New York Times, when the junior senator from Illinois goes to Iraq in the coming weeks, all three network broadcast news anchors will go there to interview him. This goes in stark contrast to what happened when John McCain visited Iraq last March. I guess it's good to…
Noel Sheppard

Worshipping Media to Follow Obama on Iraq Trip

John Stephenson

ABC Hypes IndyMac Panic For Third Day Straight

'Good Morning America' continues to feed hysteria over bank failures.
Kelly Brown

NYT Stock at 12-Year Low; Many NYT.com Search Capabilities Apparently

A visit to the Vanderbilt TV News archives (no link; registration is required) reveals that on September 20, 1996: GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole was trying to make up lost ground against incumbent President Bill Clinton, while Ross Perot was filing a Federal Elections Commission complaint over being excluded from televised presidential debates. It was disclosed that Unabomber suspect Ted…
Tom Blumer

Eat a Big Mac: Buy a Carbon Credit

P.J. Gladnick

Gas Prices Cause Louisiana Women to Resort to 'Pole Dancing

WAFB TV Channel 9, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana pulled out all the stops for this ridiculous report claiming that "some women" in the Pelican State are resorting to working in strip clubs because gasoline is so expensive. To prove it, WAFB found one woman that said so. I'd say that clinches this as "fact," then, wouldn't you? In typical sensationalistic news fashion, WAFB TV assumes that because…
Warner Todd Huston

NYDaily News: 'Lifelong Conservative' Throwing all Principles to The W

Larry Hunter claims he is a "lifelong conservative." Yet, in his recent New York Daily News article, he also says he is voting for Barack Obama for president. The two simply cannot coexist. One has to be obliterated in favor of the other. And, regardless of the facile reasoning Hunter gives for his apostasy, this article does nothing to support any supposed conservative cause. It does, however,…
Warner Todd Huston

Olbermann Slams 'Homophobe' Jesse Helms

Brad Wilmouth

Media Ignore Pro-Family Protest of McDonald's 'Hate' Smear

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Colleen Raezler

WaPo Slams U.S. Census Bureau for Upholding Federal Marriage Law

Same-sex marriages will not count as marriages in the 2010 census, in accordance with the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The Post report quotes three people who oppose the decision but only one supporter.
Julia Seward