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MRC's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes Friday Night Re: NYT/McCain
Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which runs NewsBusters, appeared Friday night, at about 9:40 PM EST on the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes -- with Ollie North filling in for Hannity. Topic: New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller's defense of his paper's hit piece on John McCain, Bozell’s call for his dismissal and how the attack has united conservatives. MP3…
Tony Snow to Be Permanent Guest Host on 'Radio Factor
Tony Snow fans will love absolutely love this.The former White House Press Secretary -- and all around good guy! -- is going to be Bill O'Reilly's permanent fill-in guest host on the "Radio Factor."O'Reilly himself posted the good news at his website Thursday:
Neuharth Hails 'Shrewd, Slick’ Castro, Recalls Telling Him: 'Touche
In his weekly Friday column, USA Today founder Al Neuharth hailed Fidel Castro for how “he outfoxed 10 consecutive U.S. Presidents” and, recalling a meeting with him 20 years ago, Neuharth wrote that he found him “brilliantly briefed” with a “quick, slick comment” after Neuharth told him that profits from Gannett’s other papers subsidized losses at USA Today: “Aha, your company and my country are…
NYT’s Warped Sense of 'Average
Perhaps the average New York Times reader makes $250,000 a year, but the average American family? Not quite.And yet the Times, and its media colleagues, continue to feature sob stories from rich families in stories supposed to illustrate the pain the housing “crisis” is causing for middle- and lower-income families. “Not since the Depression has a larger share of Americans owed more on their…
Dueling Time Headlines: 'Bush Motorcade Kills Cop' vs. 'Officer Killed
Back on August 28 we posted the sad story of the death of a motorcycle policeman who was killed while in service as a motorcade escort for president George W. Bush. What brought the story to our attention was the shocking way that Time Magazine reported the story. With a headline that blared "Bush Motorcade Kills Cop," Time made it appear that the officer died as a result of... well, President…
Seattle Paper Refuses to Run Times Hit Piece on McCain
With each passing moment, it appears the New York Times laid a big egg with its hit piece on John McCain. Not only did the Times bury a follow-up piece in Friday's paper as reported by my colleague Clay Waters, but also the Seattle Post-Intelligencer chose not to run the article due to "serious flaws."PI's managing editor David McCumber blogged at length about this decision Friday (emphasis added…
Typical Media Victims Still Not Typical
New York Times profiles wealthy families and a family in an extreme situation to exaggerate foreclosure 'crisis.'
Reuters Uses Trumped-Up 2004 Story to Support Obama Military Equipment
In an attempt to salvage some degree of credibility for presidential candidate Barack Obama's assertions about military equipment shortages, Reuters reporter Andrew Gray went back to a long-discredited claim planted by a local Tennessee reporter, and resurrected a Donald Rumsfeld quote that was not relevant to his story topic. First, Gray went to what Obama claimed, and how the Pentagon…
Weekend Captionfest
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) challenges Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) during their CNN debate in Austin, Texas on February 21, 2008.
ABC's Diane Sawyer Gushes: Can Hillary Win by Losing
"Good Morning America" host Diane Sawyer found an astoundingly gentle way to ask Hillary Clinton about the possibility of not being the Democratic nominee. On Friday's program, the ABC journalist wondered if such a victory was even necessary. She soothingly suggested, "The question is, are you in a new place about winning? Have you decided that you can accomplish what you want to accomplish, even…
AP Reporter's Indicted Pol Writeups Differ Sharply (Renzi vs. Jefferso
There is no need to play the parlor game, "What party is this person a member of?" with this Associated Press story by Lara Jakes Jordan (Feb. 23 Note: The original link from AP's hosted.ap.org site was changed; the story link now goes to Jordan's story carried at SignOnSanDiego.com. Jordan's report has been saved for future reference at BizzyBlog's host for fair use and discussion purposes):…