Gore Admits Financial 'Stake' In Advancing Global Warming Hysteria

For years, NewsBusters has reported on Al Gore's financial interests in advancing global warming hysteria around the world.On March 1, while speaking at the TED Conference in Monterey, California, the Nobel Laureate admitted to having "a stake" in a number of green "investments" that he recommended attendees put money in rather than "sub-prime carbon assets" like "tar sands" and "shale oil."This…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general debate and discussion. Possible talking point: giving tips to NewsBusters.Did you know that you can give tips to NewsBusters writers? And that typically at least one such recommendation gets used by our authors each day?All one needs do is click on the "Contact" link at the top of the page, and fill out the easy e-mail form.Be advised that we're not just looking for bias in news…
NB Staff

Australian Paper: No Criticism of 'Earth Hour' Allowed

It continues. Days after NewsBusters reported that the BBC willingly censored its reporting to fit the agenda of a left-wing environmental activist comes news that reporters at an Australian paper have been forced company-wide to promote climate alarmism by their bosses.In some positive news for journalistic independence though, it looks like the staffers at the Age newspaper have finally had…
Matthew Sheffield

McClatchy Wins Dan Rather Award; Spun Surge Success as Bad Biz for Gra

The winner of the MRC's 2008 Dan Rather Memorial Award for Stupidest Analysis went to the editors of McClatchy Newspapers for an October 16 headline that spun the good news of the surge's success in Iraq into a tale of woe for Iraqi gravediggers. See, with the success of the surge and the corresponding drop in violence and death, Iraqi cemetery workers were "feel[ing] the pinch" to quote the…
Ken Shepherd

Hillary: Forgetful at 11, Fierce at

Must be something about midnight. Sometime between 11 PM and 3 AM, Hillary Clinton is transformed from a sleepy sexagenarian who can't keep her facts straight into a bold Commander-in-Chief dealing decisively with the crisis of the moment.We all know about Hillary's 3 AM mastery. As for 11 PM, Bill Clinton went on the campaign trail in Indiana yesterday and chalked up his wife's problems with the…
Mark Finkelstein

MRC Gala Footage At Eyeblast

Our "recording artists" Michelle Humphrey and Kristine Lawrence prepared MRC gala video overnight for posting at Eyeblast.tv. We were entertained by the usual mockery of the liberal media, but we were also inspired by Tony Snow's speech accepting our William F. Buckley Award and choked up by the story of Medal of Honor winner Michael Murphy. In tribute to Murphy and his family, T. Boone Pickens…
Tim Graham

German Director to Stage America-Bashing Opera on Set Depicting 9/11 R

Naked actors wearing only Mickey Mouse masks will represent penniless 'victims of capitalism.'
Kristen Fyfe

WSJ: Couric, CBS Likely to Split

Interesting news coming out of CBS today. First, the Wall Street Journal reporting that Katie Couric is "likely" to leave the network--before her contract expires, possibly after the inaguration of the next president:After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her…
Matthew Sheffield

Hollywood Agenda: 'Day The Earth Stood Still' Remake Is All About Glob

Remember the iconic 1951 Cold War era film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? It was a black and white film starring Michael Rennie as Klaatu, an alien who came to Earth to warn our warring nations that a galactic police force had deemed the world a “danger” to intelligent life everywhere and that we faced annihilation unless we acted nice. It was one of the classic, dystopian films with a utopian…
Warner Todd Huston

Well, Well

We're back. More later.
Matthew Sheffield

Wash. Post Editor Says He Can't See a Time When There Won't Be a Print

Sixteen-year veteran editor Leonard Downie admits he is concerned about the future for mid-size market papers.
Jeff Poor

'Nightly News' Joins Anti-Wal-Mart Groups in Airing Embarrassing Video

CNBC reporter admits network is purchasing footage from Wal-Mart executive meetings that anti-Wal-Mart groups are also planning to exploit.
Jeff Poor

Media Savvy Catholics and Protestants Teaming Up to Preserve Shared Va

Kevin Mooney

NBC's Lauer Speaks Out for American Airlines

'Today' show finally reports the real cause of canceled flights: The FAA
Nathan Burchfiel