Boston Globe Celebrates Feelings Above Education

We no longer educate in the United States of America. No, instead of making to educate our children we emot-ucate them. It's all about our children's tender egos, their vaunted self esteem, their itty bitty feewings. We don't want them to know or understand so much as we want them to "feel good" about themselves. If they don't know during what years the civil war was fought, that's OK as long as…
Warner Todd Huston

YouTube's Great Influence, for Good and for Ill

Inspiring 'Last Lecture' and vicious cheerleaders both go viral.
Kristen Fyfe

NBC Stacks Deck Against Petraeus -- and Takes a Shot at McCain Too

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams led Tuesday's newscast by listing the burden of the Iraq war in years, troops, deaths and cost before Jim Miklaszewski, unlike reporters on ABC and CBS, found it newsworthy to show a man, in the Senate hearing for General David Petraeus, shouting “bring them home!” In the next story, Andrea Mitchell decided to highlight, again unlike ABC or CBS, how John…
Brent Baker

NB TV Alert: Noel Sheppard on 'Glenn Beck

NB Staff

Media Provide Little Coverage to Medal of Honor Awardees

John Stephenson

News Agencies Slow to Cover Rockefeller Smear of McCain, Fighter Pilot

Ken Shepherd

Geraldo Has Sympathy Pains for Hillary on Bosnia Gaffe

Last week Fox News host Geraldo Rivera expressed he would be "proud" to vote for Barack Obama but on Saturday's "Geraldo At Large," he showed he still has some affinity for Hillary Clinton as well. When former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele claimed Clinton's Bosnia gaffe was the reason for her drop in a recent poll, Rivera felt for the former First Lady as he sympathized: "I think…
Geoffrey Dickens

Elizabeth Edwards to Blog for Lib Think Tank, Time's Carney Lauds the

Elizabeth Edwards, I'm sure, is a smart, capable woman. A well-educated lawyer, seasoned politician's wife, and mother of three, her battle against cancer is laudable no matter what your politics are. But in all honestly, is she really that much of a scholarly health care policy or health care finance expert?Time's Jay Carney apparently thinks so. Witness his recent pat on the back for the…
Ken Shepherd

Walters Denies Surge Success

Justin McCarthy

ABC's Sawyer Touts Rosie O'Donnell's 'Singular Take' on the World

"Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer featured 9/11 conspiracy theorist Rosie O'Donnell for over 15 minutes on Tuesday and failed to ask about any of her numerous controversial statements. Despite this, Sawyer did find the time to laud the former talk show host's "singular take on the world" and to make crafts with the hard core leftist who once asserted that "radical Christianity is just as…
Scott Whitlock

Rosie O'Donnell Admits to Dropping Out of College with Low Grades

Rosie O’Donnell, who once said it is "physically impossible" for fire to melt steel, shockingly revealed she did not make it through college. Promoting her new book "Crafty U" on the April 8 edition of "Martha," Rosie admitted she was not able to get through a real university. Rosie also recounted bitter memories from "The View."Fawning over Martha Stewart’s intellect, Rosie implied she does not…
Justin McCarthy

CBS’s Smith Uses Democratic Talking Points on Iraq

In an interview with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," about the upcoming congressional testimony of General David Petraeus on the Iraq war, co-host Harry Smith began by asking a question that perfectly toed the Democratic Party line: "David Petraeus is going to come before this committee this morning. He's going to say in more -- you know, more elaborate words than I will right now…
Kyle Drennen

CNBC on the Future of Network Newsgathering: 'That Ship has Sailed

It's no longer profitable for networks to have their own news organizations, according to CNBC's David Faber. In the wake of the news that CBS is in negotiations to outsource its news division to CNN, Faber explained on CNBC's April 8 "Squawk on the Street" CBS's news division is a victim of an evolving business. "The news that CBS is once again considering a deal under which it would…
Jeff Poor

Venezuela: 'Baywatch' More Appropriate for Kids Than 'Simpsons

Who knew that Bart Simpson still had it? Years after "The Simpsons" merged into the American cultural mainstream, the show is still raising hackles--in socialist Venezuela where a government regulatory agency decreed it was "inappropriate for children."Replacing the "inappropriate" show will be reruns of, and this is not a joke, "Baywatch: Hawaii," the late 90s lifeguard show famous for its…
Matthew Sheffield