John Gibson and Mark Levin Rip Media Matters on Liberal Bias Lies

John Stephenson
 

WaPo's Inconvenient Truth: No Alarm Sounded on Virginia Sacking Warmin

Ken Shepherd
 

NYT Front Page Shocker: Ethanol Causing Rise in World Hunger

Here's something you don't see every day on the front page of a major American newspaper: an article about how the rising demand for ethanol has sent corn and grain prices so high that it's resulted in more people around the world going hungry. Even more shocking: the article in question was on the front page of Saturday's New York Times. In a piece entitled "As Prices Soar, U.S. Food Aid…
Noel Sheppard
 

Media Ignore Congressman Dingell’s ‘Painful’ Tax Plan to Solve G

It has been regularly reported by NewsBusters that media are doing everything in their power to withhold from the public the financial ramifications of global warming alarmism. Be it the marketing of totally useless carbon offsets, or proposals for additional taxes on consumers and corporations, press outlets have been seemingly coordinated in their silence regarding such matters. Another…
Noel Sheppard
 

Weekend Captionfest II

NB Staff
 

New Study: Celebrity Endorsements Have Little Impact on Voters

Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama might have talk show host Oprah Winfrey in his corner, but a new study from the Pew Research Center found that such celebrity endorsements have little impact on voting habits. In fact, state governors carry more weight with potential voters than celebrities. How delicious. Here were some of the study's key findings:
Noel Sheppard
 

WaPo: Thomas's 'Angry' Memoir vs. Clinton's 'Fascinating' Autobio

Mike Bates
 

Maher Does a Rosie: ‘Doesn’t Bush Have American Blood On His Hands

In March, a NewsBusters headline asked, "Is Bill Maher Becoming the Rosie O'Donnell of Cable Television?" On Friday, the host of HBO's "Real Time" once again proved he has, for in coming to the defense of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Maher rationalized the Iranian president sending munitions to kill American soldiers in Iraq by asking, "Doesn't Bush have American blood on his hands?" Maybe worse, Maher…
Noel Sheppard
 

BBC Still Blaming U.S. for

Remember that BBC-produced children's guide to 9/11 that blamed it on America's foreign policy?It's now facing some real public pressure in the form of Pauline Neville Jones, a former British spy and now powerful member of that country's Conservative party. She's also a former governor (aka board member) of the BBC. And she wants some changes to the program:Britain’s former spy chief accused the…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Gossipy WaPo Dwells on Jenna Bush Pregnancy Rumor

Tim Graham
 

Open Thread

Other than Cal vs. Oregon, what are today's big games and big upsets?
NB Staff
 

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: September 22 to

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R-Iran) This week, Alan Colmes proved, yet again, that Fox News has its own liberals willing to say crazy things. The host asserted that right-wingers should have embraced the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because the dictator is a "conservative" like them. Those Hateful RepublicansSpeaking of angry liberals, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has claimed that the…
Scott Whitlock
 

Clarence Thomas Bashes Media, WaPo Reports -- and Omits

Tim Graham
 

Bubble Boy? NYT's Rosenthal 'Can't Tell' Maureen Dowd's Politics

I would defy anyone to label Maureen Dowd by party affiliation or ideology. I've known her and worked closely with her for 20 years and I can't tell you the answer to either one -- Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of The New York TimesWhat would be worse: that when Times editorial page editor Rosenthal claims not to know Maureen Dowd's politics he's not being honest -- or that he is?
Mark Finkelstein