NYTimes: Audience 'Leans Left' on Cable... or Not

I can't believe we all missed this one from November 6th, but The New York Times read the cable TV ratings tea leaves and decided that the left is "riding a ratings wave" to dominate the medium. Using the supposed "ratings wave" that the NYTimes imagines has propelled Keith Olbermann to some sort of success story, they have decided that it's all good on cable for the left. Yet, any look at the…
Warner Todd Huston
 

CBS on Kerik: 'Poster Child as to Why Giuliani Shouldn't Be President

The CBS Evening News, which has aired only one full story on the scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's fugitive donor Norman Hsu, on Friday night ran its second full story on the impact on Rudy Giuliani of Bernard Kerik's indictments as Byron Pitts told Kerik that “people” say you're “a poster child as to why Giuliani shouldn't be President.” Back on August 31, in the newscast's only full story…
Brent Baker
 

Partial Birth Waterboarding

Liberals wouldn't lift a finger to stop the torturing to death of an unborn child. But put a terrorist [or a baby seal, for that matter] in the block and watch them spring into sensitive-soul mode.Rosa Brooks epitomizes the mindset in her current LA Times column, "Torture: the new abortion." Her notion is that among Republicans, the new litmus test for presidential candidates is not opposition…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Is Mukasey to Blame for 'Historically Low' Vote? Or Are Democrats

Tim Graham
 

Al Gore Invented Green Week

Melissa Lopez
 

Weekend Captionfest

Ann Curry affixes NBC News sticker to ceremonial South Pole during visit to Antarctica for NBC's "Green Week." November 8, 2007.
NB Staff
 

Dan Gainor Discusses 'Going Green' on CNBC’s Power Lunch

Is it time for more businesses to ‘go green'? Not so fast, says Director of the Business & Media Institute Dan Gainor. Gainor appeared on CNBC's "Power Lunch" November 9 to discuss business investment in green products, a popular story on many news programs."The problem is companies are spending tons of green, going green...for some things, Wal-Mart has found some solutions that make a lot of…
Paul Detrick
 

CNN Warns Eating Your iPhone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Jeff Poor
 

When Does the Kathleen Willey Book Tour Media Blitz Begin

In the past six years, any time someone wrote a tell-all book about George W. Bush or a member of his administration, they were given the royal treatment by the press with lavish interviews offering them the perfect platform to market their work as well as their politically charged opinions. Consider for example all the attention given to Valerie Plame Wilson just recently when her book "Fair…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN Warns: 'Don't Eat Your iPhone

Medical correspondent Gupta warns Apple's iPhone and iPod products contain traces of dangerous chemicals.
Jeff Poor
 

Brian Williams Loves 'Mother Earth,' Tom Brokaw Still Digs Gorby

Tim Graham
 

NPR's Garrison Keillor Recalls Democrats as 'Party of Surrender

Tim Graham
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Why Did 'Green Week' Go Out With Travelogue Whimper

"Green Week" at "Today" came in with an Al Gore roar but went out with a travelogue whimper. What happened?View video [from MSNBC site] here. On Monday, "Today" kicked off Green Week with an Al Gore interview in which he proclaimed there was no room for dissenting voices on global warming. Over at MSNBC the same day, an NBC environmental "correspondent" urged viewers to vote for candidates with…
Mark Finkelstein