NYT Claims 'Ailing Economy' on Front Page -- What Ailing Economy

In "Wall St. Sees Silver Lining," new New York Times economics reporter Peter Goodman (formerly of the Washington Post) made Saturday's front page with a "news analysis" that impressively managed to put last week's big stock market rally in the context of an "ailing economy" that was "imperiled by the crumbling housing market."
Clay Waters

CNN's Bohrman: Unrepentant About Stupid YouTube Debate Tricks

Tim Graham

Erin Burnett Apologizes and Howard Kurtz Defends Her

In a follow-up report, Erin Burnett made a half-hearted apology for her failed joke about President Bush being a monkey on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Monday, November 26. The video is posted below: Do you believe her? Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post does.
Warner Todd Huston

AIDS: The Questions They Won't Ask

Here are some of the questions that the media probably won't ask the professional HIV/AIDS lobby, which grows ever fatter while the human tragedy rises
Robert Knight

Christmas Greetings from the Left Pole

With Sweeney Todd and Charlie Wilson just in time for Christmas, the Hollywoodites at the left pole would like us to forget that they're anti-Christian, anti-war and anti-conservative.
Jan LaRue, Esq.

Going Off a Cliff at the Chronicle

A San Francisco columnist explains why he loves The Golden Compass -- because he hates religion and religious people. Why does an ostensibly mainstream newspaper like the Chronicle publish such venomous hate speech?
Robert Knight

Nina Burleigh vs. The 'Insomniac Internet Goon' at NewsBusters

Former Time reporter Nina Burleigh is unhappy she was criticized on NewsBusters for her Clinton-defending review in The Washington Post of Sally Bedell Smith’s book For Love of Politics. She lamented on The Huffington Post on Saturday night that before many could even read the review, "an apparently insomniac internet goon named Tim Graham had penned a screed dissing The Washington Post for…
Tim Graham

Time Writer Lobbies 'International Leaders' to be Proactive Fighting C

Magazine's global warming advocate accuses Bush of 'foot dragging on climate change,' overlooks costs of worldwide regulation.
Jeff Poor

ABC: Advocating Biased Concoctions

Past articles document the media’s bias against Castle Doctrine, insinuating that this enhanced self-defense law impedes investigators and handcuffs prosecutors,1 or that the right of self-defense originated with Castle Doctrine.2 Laura Whitley of ABC Houston affiliate KTRK covering a recent self-defense story where Rodney Shamlin was shot by homeowner Gary Southworth, wrote:
Howard Nemerov

Michael J. Fox Sticks to Old Beliefs on Embryo Destruction

Even as scientific advancements on stem cell research have vindicated George W. Bush's resistance to destroy actual embryos, Michael J. Fox refused to give the President any credit on Monday's "Today" show, instead choosing to indirectly insult him as he declared that after the next election "the chances are very good that there's gonna be a new attitude towards science." When asked by NBC's…
Geoffrey Dickens

'View' Panel Discusses Naming a Teddy Bear Jesus

After discussing the British woman in Sudan charged for naming a class teddy bear Muhammad on Friday’s "View," with no outrage directed towards the Sudanese government, the ladies again discussed the topic. Barbara Walters inquired to the panel what would happen if someone named a teddy bear Jesus in the United States.Unlike Rosie O’Donnell, who exclaimed "radical Christianity is just as…
Justin McCarthy

ChiTrib Laments Plight of Illegal Voter, Yet Reporter Notes Problem's

Perhaps seeking to paint a sympathetic portrait of a woman charged with illegally voting in a federal election before naturalizing as a U.S. citizen, the Chicago Tribune's Antonio Olivo buried the lede in his story, "Citizenship in sight, but then she voted." In the midst of lamenting the plight of one Beth Keathley, Olivo uncovered concerns about so-called motor-voter registration and how it can…
Ken Shepherd

CBS’s Pelley: American Barbarians Have 'Driven Out' Iraqi Christians

On Sunday’s CBS "60 Minutes," anchor Scott Pelley, who referred to Iranian President Ahmadinejad as "friendly," "modest," and "incorruptible," compared American forces in Iraq to barbarian hordes of the past while examining the plight of Iraqi Christians since the war began in 2003: "The Iraqi Christian community, which had survived invasions by Mongols and Turks, was driven out under American…
Kyle Drennen

Media Warns of $100/Barrel Oil – Still Hasn’t Happened

Remember when everyone was warning of impending economic collapse from oil reaching that mystical mark of $100 a barrel? Over the past two months, it has been on the way according to the media. But as of December 3, the price of crude has decreased - not increased as predicted."Crude briefly cracked $90 a barrel for the first time and analysts say that will soon trickle down to the pump," Alexis…
Jeff Poor