They Read the Articles? Playboy Piece Wins Science Prize

Skin mag staff writer gets 'Honorable' Mention for the Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award.
Tim Graham

Tom Brokaw's Nostalgia for '70s Liberalism in Earth Day Lecture

Tim Graham

ABC News: Mexican Drug Violence U.S. Constitution's Fault

True to the liberal penchant for blaming every ill in the world on the USA, ABC News has produced a "report" claiming that the increasing number of guns and drug cartel violence in Mexico is all the fault of... the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That's right, it isn't the drug dealers and killers in Mexico that are at fault, it's James Madison and the Founding Father's fault! Now,…
Warner Todd Huston

CNN Highlights Ephron's Racist/Sexist Theory About White Male Voters

CNN's Carol Costello focused on Nora Ephron's Huffington Post rant against white male voters in Pennsylvania during a report on Tuesday's "The Situation Room." "Ephron uses provocative language to make a point. She says, 'let's not kid ourselves. Try as we might, white men will still decide who gets to be president.'" While Costello used results from previous primaries to cast doubt on Ephron's…
Matthew Balan

Pennsylvania Primary Open Thread

NB Staff

Will Media Remember Gore's 1994 Tie-breaking Vote Mandating Ethanol

As the international disaster of ethanol begins taking its toll on the planet -- and, maybe more important, as press outlet after press outlet finally begins recognizing it -- will media remember that Vice President Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate requiring this oxygenate be added to gasoline?After all, regardless of recent reports blaming ethanol for world hunger problems,…
Noel Sheppard

Man-bashing Advertisements Don't Make Business Sense

In today's left-dominated media world, political correctness rules the roost, especially when it comes to the so-called "gender wars." Why there must be any in the first place isn't ever answered but suffice it to say, the elite American press is decidedly anti-male.It isn't just the news and entertainment media that caters to man-bashing, either. Advertisers are very much to blame for this as…
Matthew Sheffield

Matthews Lambastes Lieberman: 'Terrible, Terrible' VP Candidate

Update 7:50 PM: Chris Proclaims Polls Closed 1/2 Hour Early! See foot.The problem with Chris Matthews playing footsie with the idea of running for US Senator from Pennsylvania: when he says something nowadays, how can you tell whether he means it, or is just trying to position himself for a possible run?Take this evening's Hardball, during which Matthews castigated Joe Lieberman as having been…
Mark Finkelstein

Gas Price Hype Rising With 'No End in Sight

And here we go again. I'm all for catchy headlines, but CNN has to be a bit more responsible with its choices when reporting on gasoline prices."Gas prices climbing with no end in sight," reads a hyperbolic April 22 CNN.com headline. "No end in sight" might make for great left-wing populist rhetoric, but it's hardly balanced economic reporting.Indeed, the only thing to justify the "no end"…
Ken Shepherd

Bozell Column: Censorious Left-Wing Bloggers

ABC generously offered the Democrats a gift that the Republicans were not given in this electoral cycle – a two-hour debate, in prime time, on a weeknight. Not only that, it was hosted by former Democratic aide George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson. Left-wing bloggers promptly greeted this gift by smacking ABC in the mouth. Like an abused spouse, ABC responded by repeating all the leftist…
Brent Bozell

Actor Ed Norton Promotes Green Propaganda on 'Today

As part of its celebration of Earth Day, NBC's "Today" show invited on actor/environmentalist Ed Norton to promote his National Geographic special on PBS and the "Fight Club" star actually decried America's environmental progress compared to China as he charged the U.S. had to "catch up," to them in the area of banning plastic bags.ED NORTON: Yeah and when, and when China is ahead of us in…
Geoffrey Dickens

Compassion Forum Mostly Showed Faith in Liberalism

CMI Director Robert Knight analyzes CNNs faith-based conversation at Messiah College with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and reveals a bias toward equating compassion with government action, not personal responsibility.
Robert Knight

Paramount Spokeswoman Says 'No Plans' for 'An Inconvenient Truth' Sequ

If you were looking forward to "An Inconvenient Truth, Part II," but this time with a happier ending, don't get your hopes up. Alison Lehrer, a spokeswoman for Paramount, the production company behind Al Gore's Oscar-winning 2006 film, told the Business & Media Institute April 22 that no movie sequel is in the works. "There are no plans for a sequel," Lehrer said. "That is the official…
Jeff Poor

Paramount Spokeswoman: 'No Plans' for 'An Inconvenient Truth' Sequel

Publisher says Gore's 'Path to Survival' book with planned release of April 22 pushed back until Spring 2009.
Jeff Poor